Eileen Yu
for By The Way
| August 3, 2021 — 01:05 GMT (02:05 BST)
| Topic: Security
With ransomware attacks increasing, legislations have been mooted as a way to bar companies from paying up and further fuelling such activities. In this second piece of a two-part feature on ransomware, ZDNet looks at how such policies can be difficult to enforce and may result in more dire consequences.
Regulations that compelled victims not to pay up could put these businesses in a precarious position, said Steve Turner, a New York-based Forrester analyst who focuses on security and risk. For one, any debate over whether to pay up would be muted when physical lives were at stake.
Turner pointed to ransomware attacks that brought down critical infrastructure systems such as power and healthcare, impacting the likes of US Colonial Pipeline, Ireland’s Health Service Executive, and Germany’s Duesseldorf University Hospital.
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Eileen Yu
for By The Way
| August 3, 2021 — 01:05 GMT (02:05 BST)
| Topic: Security