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Sights and Takeaways From ESX 2016
Section Chief Phil Celestini is a special agent of the FBI, currently assigned to the bureau’s cyber division. Celestini offered some pretty stark context to the mushrooming evil-doing by hackers across the globe: Losses from data breaches are forecast to exceed $2 trillion globally by 2019. The menace of ransomware, a type of malicious software intended to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid, is also on the rise and expected to explode, he said. As part of its efforts to combat and thwart cybersecurity issues, the FBI is working to align and collaborate with private business, he said.
