Every day around the world, countless cybercriminals attack for-profit businesses, nonprofits, NGOs, and other organizations to steal or extort money and data. At the same time, huge numbers of cybersecurity professionals do their best to play defense and counterattack, deploying cutting-edge tech to keep businesspeople, customers, and other citizens safe. In Cyber Recon: My Life in Cyber Espionage and Ransomware Negotiation, 30-year cybersecurity veteran Kurtis Minder offers a firsthand perspective on the real-world cyber espionage taking place in some of the internet's darkest corners. He explains how cyber espionage is conducted, the technological tools and skills that people like him--and the bad actors he combats--use on a regular basis, and the consequences of engaging with cybercriminals every day. You'll learn about how businesses and other non-government entities spy on the bad guys and how they interact with ransomware criminals to recover stolen data and regain access to com-promised systems. You'll also discover how the author has managed to grow his successful digital risk company, GroupSense, and lead it through dramatic incidents of online crime over the last few decades. Cyber Recon provides dozens of in-depth profiles of cyber espionage and cybercrime negotiation professionals alongside QR-code links to extended YouTube interviews. It offers fascinating anecdotes and stories about Minder's experiences building a business in the cyber market. This is an entirely original, non--technical primer on the people who spend their lives working in the cyber risk landscape, as well as the methods they use to carry out and prevent attacks on a wide variety of targets. Perfect for anyone interested in spycraft, technology, hacking, or digital entrepreneurship, Cyber Recon is a one-of-a-kind field guide to a poorly understood--and deeply important--sector of cybersecurity.