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UnHack the Podcast: Inside a Real LockBit Attack - Lessons From Fighting Ransomware with Zach Lewis
February 24, 2026: When Zach Lewis, CISO and CIO at the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis, received that 3 AM call about system outages, his first thought was tech debt, not threat actors. What followed was a masterclass in ransomware response that he's now captured in his new book "Locked Up." Despite A-minus security scores, board briefings, FBI connections, and all the right frameworks in place, LockBit still found its way in through a configuration gap during a firewall migration. In this raw conversation, Zach reveals why the negotiation process saved them $1.25…
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