Location:Online
Start date:17/04/2024
End date:17/04/2024
Event Organiser:Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)
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Web:https://my.rusi.org/events/online-debate-should-the-government-ban-ransomware-payments.html
Ransomware is causing significant harm to UK citizens, businesses and national security. Last year registered a record in revenues from ransomware, forcing policymakers to wrestle with one of the thorniest and most contentious questions in cyber policy: whether to ban ransomware payments.
In early 2024, the former CEO of the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), Ciaran Martin, catalysed the debate on ransomware payments in the UK by arguing in a favour of a ban.
The London-based defence and security think-tank RUSI is convening a group to discuss the pros and cons of a ban, how it might be implemented, and what other options are available to policymakers to reduce the profitability of ransomware for cybercriminals. Panel:
Ciaran Martin CB, Professor of Practice in the Management of Public Organisations, University of Oxford;
Tom Keatinge, Director of the Centre for Financial Crime and Security Studies, RUSI;
Jen Ellis, Founder of NextJenSecurity and Co-chair of the Ransomware Task Force; and
Jamie MacColl, Research Fellow, RUSI.
Moderator: Conrad Prince CB, RUSI Distinguished Fellow and Senior Cyber Adviser
