6. Joe Sykora, ProofPoint

Is ransomware good for business? And what aren’t we talking about that we should be talking about in cybersecurity?

These were some of the questions posed to a roundtable of cybersecurity experts at the 2022 Channel Partners Conference and Expo. Proofpoint’s senior vice president of worldwide channels and partner sales made waves when he asserted that ransomware does, in fact, help business. 

“I think most people in the cyber industry, if you look at our results, stock prices, how we’re doing, everything else, I would say that it does help as far as that. But I don’t think that’s necessarily anything that we want. I think none of us want that. We’re here to help the good guys from the bad guys. We continue to do a lot of collaboration among each other. We do integrations, and so we try to help with that. You combine that with our MSP partners and other partners out there … a lot of them, that’s why they’re doing services. If it’s an SMB play, there are 100,000 MSPs out there right now.”

Learn more about what other experts said at the roundtable here.