Colonial Pipeline fallout: Thwarting ransomware attacks requires collective defense
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Jaclyn Jaeger2021-06-01T18:11:00
President Biden’s executive order on cyber-security largely applies to federal agencies. But its core message—that the public and private sectors must collectively defend against increasingly malicious ransomware attacks—should not be lost on companies.
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