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Following a series of high-profile ransomware attacks – where an organized criminal group or nation-state actor encrypts a company’s network and data and threatens to expose or delete it unless the company pays ransom – Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technology Anne Neuberger released an open letter (“Letter”) to corporate and business leaders nationwide calling on companies to take immediate steps to protect against the threat of ransomware. The Letter comes on the heels of disruptive ransomware incidents that targeted a major oil pipeline company and a meat supplier.
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As we come out of the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears that another type of infection is threatening business and ransomware continues to spread.
Colonial Pipeline
Massachusetts Steamship Authority
City of Tulsa
A roll call of entities suffering major ransomware attacks just in the few weeks. After the Colonial Pipeline attack, President Biden issued an Executive Order establishing some baselines for cybersecurity with respect to government contracts and improving detection of cybersecurity incidents on federal government networks, among other things. The White House has now issued a rare “wake up call” to private business in the form of an open letter “to corporate executives and business leaders.”
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