Ransomware has grown up. Once just a cybercrime nuisance that affected individual computers with payment demands of a few hundred dollars, ransomware attacks now impact whole corporate networks, generate payment demands in the millions, and even disrupt our daily lives.
The perpetrators behind this type of crime have become highly organized and diversified, employing a complex ecosystem of support infrastructure to manage payments, targeting, software, and other aspects of the "business."
Ransomware is now a threat to our national security, public health and safety, and economic prosperity.
Because the threat posed by ransomware has changed, our response must change as well. We need to elevate our ransomware response to the national security level, and to do that, we must close the information-sharing gap on this growing threat.
A national security-level response is focused, aggressive, prioritized, broad, collaborative, and sustained. However, the events of the last few months — from the attacks on Colonial Pipeline to the Irish Health Service to the JBS meat processing company — clearly demonstrate that what governments and the cybersecurity industry have been doing to combat ransomware isn't yet at the level of a national security response.
The recent report by the Ransomware Task Force, which is composed of a team of more than 60 industry and government experts, lays out nearly 50 recommendations that would generate a national security-level response that matches the ransomware threat. If fully implemented, the resulting actions would change the trajectory of ransomware and blunt its effects on our society.
While the report's recommendations are interlocking and meant to be implemented as a package, one element worth drawing attention to is the creation of the Ransom Incident Response Network (RIRN).
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