
Joshua Nicholson
Founder & CEO of DarkStack7 Cyber Defense and host of the Cyber Security America podcast; U.S. Marine Corps veteran based in Charlotte, NC.
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Aug 10, 2026
Why Companies Still Pay Ransoms (And How AI Makes It Worse) w/ Joshua Nicholson, CEO of DarkStack7
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Joe ErleHOST
And when you're out there in the field, what are the top five mistakes people are making when it comes to incident response?

Joshua NicholsonGUEST
That's a good question because it can be in a couple different areas from a people process technology perspective.

Joshua NicholsonGUEST
I think the first one is not even having an incident response team, not having someone responsible when things occur.

Joshua NicholsonGUEST
Who has the power to make a decision in an incident? That seems to be like the number one thing that happens.

Joshua NicholsonGUEST
But Who's got the authority to do that? And when are we going to do that type thing? And so you can see where that's really important to understand from just from an administration perspective, who has to make these business decisions.
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Joe ErleHOST
And you do those exercises that I think your company offers, right? Tabletop exercises.