Build Your Empire Podcast · 2025-11-13 · 1h 0m
Episode 7: Locked Up - Zach Lewis on Real-World Lessons from the LockBit Ransomware Attack. When ransomware strikes, panic is the easy reaction - but true leadership is revealed in how you respond. In this powerful episode of the Build Your Empire Podcast, host Nick Zellem sits down with Zach Lewis, CIO & CISO of the University of Health Sciences and Pharmacy in St. Louis, and author of Locked Up: Cybersecurity Threat Mitigation Lessons from a Real-World LockBit Ransomware Response (Wiley, 2026). Zach takes us inside a real LockBit ransomware attack - from the first ominous alerts to the moment he discovered the ransom note. He reveals what really happens when your network is compromised, how he led his university through a high-pressure incident, and what every leader - from CISO to CEO - can learn from it.
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