White House Pushes Private Sector to Address Ransomware

By Teri Robinson for Security Boulevard
Friday, June 4, 2021

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The White House put the private sector on notice Thursday, June 3, 2021, demanding that organizations bolster security to meet increasingly aggressive and disruptive cybersecurity threats and urged them to “immediately convene their leadership teams” to “review corporate security posture and business continuity plans.”

That’s exactly what the White House seems determined to do–make cybersecurity a priority through use of a number of actions, including Biden’s EO, Neuberger’s charge to the private sector and, hours later, a Justice Department announcement that it would give ransomware cases similar priority to terrorism cases. While Illia Kolochenko, founder of ImmuniWeb and a member of Europol Data Protection Experts Network, praised the Justice Department’s decision as “timely,” he added, “merely prosecuting the criminals with more force,” will not address the central problem that “most of the ransomware victims of all sizes neglected even the basics of data protection,” which made them easy targets. Read Full Article