National Security Agency Director Gen. Paul Nakasone said ransomware attacks are likely to remain a daily threat for at least five more years. Do you agree with his statement?

In my opinion, it is like giving up without even accepting the challenge... it's a message that, perhaps, should not be conveyed in this manner.

It is important to note that many of the attacks are shifting more to data exfiltration and hostage versus data encryption as they are much faster and easier to accomplish without detection. 

I "disagree" - ransomware is a high ROI activity for the hackers, it is the monetization of all of the TTPs they curate. Ransomware is what kidnapping, trafficking, extortion, racketeering, loan sharking, tax fraud, was for the mafia. Today, even a corner thug with some skills can execute it on a Mom and Pop deli shop with inadequate security controls to extort a few thousand every so often. 

It is here to stay in form or other for decades.