48 recommendations for a global fight against ransomware - Help Net Security

48 recommendations for a global fight against ransomware - Help Net Security

The Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force (RTF) has released a comprehensive strategic framework to help worldwide organizations fight against ransomware and will be delivering it to the U.S. President’s team.


The 81-pages-long report includes an overview of the ransomware threat, its impact, how the cyber insurance and the rise of cryptocurrencies influenced its proliferation, the current situation in regard to threat actors that use the malware (and how), and existing efforts to mitigate these attacks.


More importantly, the report lays out recommendations for a coordinated global action to tackle this threat to critical infrastructure, public health, education institutions, and the economy, society and national security in general.


The framework


“Ransomware has become too large of a threat for any one entity to add ..

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