The Biden administration is leveraging state attorneys offices to gain insight into ransomware and stressed private-sector obligations as crucial to the success of its strategy to reduce the impact of the menace threatening critical infrastructure across the globe.
In a meeting with the National Association of Attorneys General Thursday, Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Tech Anne Neuberger highlighted her June 2 open letter to corporate executives. The letter urged business leaders to also implement measures—including multi factor authentication, endpoint detection and response and encryption—outlined for federal agencies in a recent executive order. The letter also contained other best practices such as maintaining network segmentation to ensure continued operation of industrial control systems, by manual means, if necessary.
Neuberger “reiterated her call to action that corporate leaders implement the discrete, high-impact cybersecurity measures contained in her open letter, and those referenced in the President’s Executive Order,” according to a readout the White House released Friday. “Investing in cybersecurity is a far better investment for our economy and for companies than paying the funds in ransom.”
Attorneys general are a significant part of the administration’s strategy for taking on the challenge posed by ransomware, which has ballooned in recent months, as demonstrated by attacks on meat and fuel suppliers JBS and Colonial Pipeline, respectively. A new ransomware task force at the Department of Justice will centrally coordinate and analyze data from ransomware cases reported up through state attorneys offices. During an oversight hearing ..
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