Yannick Hirt
Founder and CEO of Odysseus, a Swiss security consultancy; interviewed about hands-on experience responding to a real ransomware attack on an international industrial company and lessons learned for incident response and resilience.
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Feb 24, 2026 • 43min
Responding to Ransomware Attack [Case Study] | Interview with Yannick Hirt
Yannick Hirt, founder and CEO of Odysseus and incident-response specialist, recounts a real ransomware attack on an international industrial firm. He describes phishing of a privileged account, standing up a war room, mapping critical apps, and choosing restore-from-verified-cloud-backups. They cover negotiating via intermediaries, recovery timelines, insurer coordination, forensics tradeoffs, and the value of realistic war-room training.
