Author: Ran Tamir

If this question is keeping you up at night, you are certainly not alone. The threat is tangibly real and immediate, with ransomware damages projected to top $20 billion by the end of the year (Cybersecurity Ventures, 2021) and the average cost to recover from a ransomware attack estimated at $1.85 million (Varonis 2021). The stakes have reached a critical point and no organization, no matter how big or small, can hope to escape unscathed without addressing the threat head-on. 

In legal terms, the process of transferring evidence from one place to another is handled in a vigilant manner – the chain of custody. The purpose is to ensure that the evidence remains untainted or tampered with, and is in fact related to the alleged crime. The smallest crack in the process can result in setting a criminal free, or worse, convicting an innocent man as guilty.  

As VP of Product for Pcysys, I wanted to take this exciting opportunity to share with you a few tips and tales of our product evolution in the past 4 years, bringing us to this point, when Blackstone elected to invest in our growth.