Security Navigator 2026 Live session:
From Headlines to Hard Truths: Cyber Extortion, Threat Actors, and What You Can Do
Cyber incidents are everywhere—but understanding why they happen and how organisations actually get hurt is far less common.
In the first Security Navigator webinar, we cut through the noise and connect real-world incidents, law enforcement insights, and security data to explain how today’s cyber threat landscape is evolving—and where organisations remain most exposed.
This session focuses on three closely linked themes:
- What law enforcement data reveals about modern cybercriminals
How threat actors are getting younger, more distributed, and more opportunistic—and what coordinated international enforcement is (and isn’t) achieving. - The evolution of cyber extortion (Cy-X)
Why ransomware has transformed into multi-layered extortion campaigns involving data theft, insider pressure, and psychological coercion—and why this model continues to work. - Lessons from real incidents
High-profile cases and long-running recoveries show the true cost of cyber incidents: prolonged disruption, hidden recovery expenses, and business impact that far exceeds the ransom itself.
Rather than treating cyber risk as abstract or inevitable, this webinar links incidents back to actionable organisational choices—from basic cyber hygiene and exposure management to insider risk and recovery readiness.
Who should attend
Security leaders, IT decision-makers, and business stakeholders who want a realistic, experience-driven view of today’s threats—and clear guidance on what they can do now to reduce risk and impact.
Key takeaway
You can’t control the threat landscape—but you can control how vulnerable your organisation is. This session shows where to focus.
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Speakers:
Technical thought leader, spokesman and figurehead for Orange Cyberdefense world-wide, leading and managing the OC Security Research Center - a specialist security research unit within the group that helps us fulfill our mission of being a trusted partner to our customers by ensuring that we identify, track, analyze, communicate and act upon significant developments in the security landscape.
Responsible for using that intelligence and the other data, systems and human resources at the group's disposal to make a meaningful contribution of data and knowledge to the global security community.
The Security Research Center supports the OC mission by providing systems, data, intelligence and material that enable sound decision making by other group units driving growth, demonstrate our knowledge, experience and skill to all our internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring consistency between the messages we portray outwardly and the way our products and services are designed and delivered internally.
With a strong background in Criminal Science, Diana is a Lead Security Researcher for Orange Cyberdefense. Among other projects she heads the companie's efforts to track, analyze and report on current ransomware trends. Her primary interests and focus are on data analysis, researching cybercrime trends, victimology and the human element in cyber security.
Wicus investigates industry events and trends with the single purpose of understanding how these may affect SecureData's clients and what the appropriate response is given the threat. This in turn result in building new detection processes or tools.
Wicus was previously involved with software development and compliance at Traderoot Technologies, an ecommerce technology vendor.
Simen Van der Perre is Strategic Advisor at Orange Cyberdefense. After more than 10 years of presales experience in various security technologies, his interest in the bigger geopolitical picture surrounding cyber threats grew. He has been using this knowledge for a number of years now to continuously analyze the cyber landscape and thus assist companies with their strategic choice.