Ransomware Task Force: Major collaboration is vital

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As the crisis of ransomware attacks against health care organizations worsens, a long-awaited report from the Ransomware Task Force offers guidelines to stemming the tide of cybercrime swamping nearly every facet of modern health care.

The April 29 report is the first major public step of the task force, which the Institute for Security and Technology created in December. Its mission: effectively combat ransomware and its “increasingly dangerous physical consequences” with a response that brings together public agencies and private organizations.

The task force includes representatives of big-name organizations from cybersecurity, Big Tech, and finance, including Amazon.com, Cisco Systems, CrowdStrike, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Microsoft, Palo Alto Networks, Rapid7, and Ernst & Young. It also has drawn in government administrators from municipalities in Colorado and New York, as well as from federal law enforcement agencies in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The group is separate from the just-announced Justice Department task force focused on ransomware.