Details and registration here. ■Ransomware Damage Remains High; AI Advancements Increase Risk of Exploiting Vulnerabilities Ransomware attacks continue to plague major corporations, causing business disruptions, data breaches, and supply chain impacts, posing serious threats to business continuity. Accelerating this situation is the advancement of AI, which speeds up the discovery and exploitation of vulnerabilities. With the advent of generative AI that enhances vulnerability discovery, the cycle, which previously took about a week from discovery to attack, has been reported to be shortened to within 24-48 hours in some cases. This leaves almost no grace period for patch application, further increasing the risk of attacks occurring before security personnel can respond. Furthermore, EDR, a key defense mechanism, inherently struggles to completely stop intrusions due to its "behavioral detection" nature, highlighting its fundamental limitation where some data may be encrypted during the detection time lag. ■EDR is Evaded and Stopped; Encryption Attacks Go Undetected Due to Exploitation of Zero-Days and Legitimate Operations While many companies have introduced EDR, it is not uncommon for them to be unable to fully leverage its capabilities. Attackers evade or disable detection by forcibly terminating EDR processes or exploiting legitimate system functions to launch encryption attacks. In the case of attacks exploiting zero-day vulnerabilities, EDR alone has limitations in its response. Moreover, in companies lacking dedicated security personnel, alerts are often postponed for investigation and response, increasing the risk of overlooking signs of intrusion. The perception that "we are safe because we have EDR" can inadvertently obscure vulnerabilities in our defenses. If an encryption attack occurs with EDR disabled, system downtime can result in catastrophic damage directly impacting business continuity. There is a need for a mechanism that can prevent encryption e