Tech group proposes ways to help organizations prepare for potential ransom payment ban

The Institute for Security and Technology outlines steps to minimize ransomware threats in a new report explaining four lines of effort to help organizations bolster their security practices and prepare the government and private sector for a potential ban on ransom payments.

The eight co-chairs of IST’s Ransomware Task Force “have developed steps that governments and the private sector could take together to reduce the need for a prohibition on ransomware payments, or alternatively could provide a roadmap to facilitate...