FirstLight is collaborating with Veeam to host a lunch and learn webinar highlighting Veeam’s 2024 Ransomware Trends Report. We’ll examine the most effective ways to protect your organization from the newest attack vectors, and demo some of the latest ransomware prevention solutions. Join Veeam Cloud Engineer Sean Simpson and FirstLight’s Nick Heino for a useful and insightful presentation. The first 10 registrations get an extra gift! Scroll down for details.
What: “Ransomware Trends and Prevention”
Date: Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024
Time: 11 a.m. to noon
Webinar
Presenters
Sean Simpson, System Engineer, Veeam Cloud
Sean Simpson is an IT professional skilled in all areas of IT with a focus on cloud sales, engineering, planning, design, implementation and management experience in IT/Network Operations, Systems Engineering and Business Development. He has worked for companies ranging from startups to global industry leaders. Specialties include Disaster Recovery, Managed Services, IaaS, DRaaS, Backup, and Cloud Computing.
Nick Heino, Sales Engineer, FirstLight
Nick Heino is a seasoned sales engineer with three years of experience in the field, building on a solid eight-year foundation as a cloud engineer. His expertise lies in backup and recovery solutions, as well as disaster recovery strategies, where he has honed his skills to effectively address complex challenges and deliver robust solutions. With a deep understanding of both the technical and client-facing aspects of technology, Nick seamlessly bridges the gap between innovative solutions and practical implementation, ensuring resilience and reliability for diverse systems.
About the Veeam Report
Each year, Veeam conducts a survey of IT leaders on various data protection topics. The surveys don’t simply poll Veeam customers, but a broad representation of businesses across all industries. This year’s report surveyed 1,200 respondents — comprised of CISOs (or executives with similar responsibility), security professionals, and backup administrators — whose organizations suffered at least one ransomware attack in 2023. The report revealed that 75% of organizations were hit by cyberattacks.
About FirstLight
FirstLight provides a full complement of cost-effective, high-quality, scalable telecommunications services, including private line, high speed Internet access, data center, cloud, managed and voice services to retail and wholesale customers throughout the Northeast and mid-Atlantic.
About Veeam
Veeam® is the global market leader in data resilience, with solutions that help businesses recover data whenever and wherever they need it by providing data backup, data recovery, data freedom, data security, and data intelligence. Veeam protects more than 550,000 customers, including 74% of the Global 2000.
What: “Ransomware Trends and Prevention”
Date: Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024
Time: 11 a.m. to noon
Special offer: the first 10 registrations* will also receive a free mini Solo stove.
* Restrictions apply. No cash value. Registrants must be responsible for making decisions regarding organizational IT.
