Nonprofit-led ransomware task force offers progress report on effectiveness of proposed blueprint

A ransomware task force led by the Institute for Security and Technology is testing the effectiveness of its ransomware defense blueprint using data from Resilience Insurance to identify specific points of failure and compare them with task force-proposed security controls that help bolster defenses.

IST’s Ransomware Task Force released a blueprint last August that includes “40 IG1 Safeguards from the CIS Critical Security Controls (CIS Controls) that help small- and medium-sized enterprises in particular defend against the most...