ICYMI: RANSOMWARE FIGHTERS UNITE

A new coalition of cybersecurity and tech groups is working to create a roadmap for officials to counter the plague of ransomware attacks that have increasingly hit all levels of government over the past two years.

“You see ransomware as not just an increasing security threat, it is to the level of now where it’s putting hospitals, children, the elderly, financial institutions, everyone at risk,” Philip Reiner, executive chairman of the Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force, told The Hill.

“As a result, we were seized with the idea that creating a collaborative cross-sectoral grouping that is looking at it from a comprehensive, top-down policy approach could potentially have more effect,” Reiner added.