The White House is urging private companies to take immediate action to boost their ransomware defenses after a number of recent high-profile cyberattacks slowed critical US supply chains, according to a new memo.
In the memo, Neuberger suggested"a small number of highly impactful steps" that she said companies could take immediately to help make"rapid progress on driving down risk."Neuberger encouraged the private sector to adopt the best practices President Joe Biden laid out in anaimed at addressing the country's vulnerability to cyberattacks, such as multifactor authentication and encryption.
Neuberger also urged companies to back up data and keep backups offline so that they are not vulnerable to ransomware variants; to update and patch systems regularly; to build and test an incident response plan so that businesses can sustain operations in the event of an attack; and to segment networks so that corporate business functions are separated from manufacturing and production operations.
"Much as our homes have locks and alarm systems and our office buildings have guards and security to meet the threat of theft, we urge you to take ransomware crime seriously and ensure your corporate cyber defenses match the threat," Neuberger wrote.
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