This month, Chris Hadnagy and Ryan MacDougall are joined by Patrick Laverty. Patrick is the Senior Team Lead at Social Engineer, LLC, working with an incredible team of professional social engineers. He was previously a senior penetration tester at Rapid7 and a member of the CSIRT at Akamai. He is a co-organizer of the Layer 8 Conference and is the host of the Layer 8 Podcast on social engineering and OSINT. He lives in Rhode Island with his daughter, dog and two cats. [April 18, 2022]  00:00 – Intro  00:50 – Patrick Laverty intro  https://layer8conference.com  02:19 – Intro Links  Social-Engineer.com Managed Voice Phishing  Managed Email Phishing Adversarial Simulations  Social-Engineer channel on SLACK  CLUTCH  innocentlivesfoundation.org  04:38 – Security Awareness in the world today  05:25 – Malicious Domain Registrations  06:58 – Protecting yourself from false domains  11:24 – CISA Alert / Shields Up  12:36 – Lowering Reporting Thresholds  13:33 – Empowering Security Information Officers  16:50 – Tabletop Exercises  19:20 – Planning for Continuity  21:09 – Beyond the Financial Effects of Ransomware  24:29 – Trying to protect the Healthcare Sector  25:27 – Backup & Recovery Process  28:38 – The source of Ransomware  30:03 – Planning for a Ransomware attack  31:51 – Why your site will be attacked  33:41 – 3 Actionable Tips  35:30 – Book Recommendations  Thinking, Fast and Slow– Daniel Kahneman How to Win Friends & Influence People– Dale Carnegie Delivered from Distraction – John Ratey Fixed – Amy Herman Going Pro – Dr Tony Kern 38:20 – Wrap Up   39:18 – Outro  www.social-engineer.com  www.innocentlivesfoundation.org