You decided to pay the ransom.
Your systems are back online.
But your toughest battles? They’re only just beginning.

Customers are watching. Regulators are asking questions. Attackers know you’ll pay again.

Twelve months later, your business looks very different.

This is an unfiltered play-by-play of what really happens after ransom payment.

You’ll sit in the war room as leaders wrestle with the fallout, from the first days of “recovery” to the slow burn of reputational damage, compliance risk and future attacks.

What truly happens after you pay the ransom?

In this webinar, you’ll discover:

This is a field-tested teardown of the hidden costs and leadership decisions no one puts in the playbook:

• The first 30 days after payment
  See how operational, legal and reputational impacts unfold.

• The battle for confidence
  Watch how customers, employees, and shareholders respond to a business that chose to pay.

• One year later: winners vs. casualties
  What separates organisations that adapt and recover from those that collapse under repeat attacks?

• Actionable resilience frameworks
  Get practical steps you can apply immediately from CloudGuard’s Incident Response experts.

This webinar is built from real attack patterns and breach outcomes in the UK.

Who should attend?

• Security leaders (CISOs, CIOs, IR leads)
• Risk and governance professionals
• Business continuity and IT operations heads
• Anyone who owns or influences cyber resilience planning

Why this matters — right now

• Ransomware payments topped £339M in just six months of 2024.
• Only 31% of paying victims actually got their data back.
• Businesses that pay are 1.8× more likely to be hit again.

And for SMEs without resilience, the numbers are brutal: 62% fail within 6 months of a ransom attack.

Paying doesn’t end the story. It sets the stage for the next one. This webinar shows you how to survive it.