High-profile security vendors and groups have teamed up with the Institute for Security and Technology (IST) to form the Ransomware Task Force (RTF), which plans to present some actionable legal, technical, and policy ideas to the new Biden administration by early spring.
The task force was officially announced on Monday with 17 founding organizations, including McAfee, Microsoft, and Rapid7, as well as cyber advocacy groups such as the Cyber Threat Alliance and the Global Cyber Alliance.
Philip Reiner, CEO of IST, which will head up the effort, anticipates the group will expand as word gets out and more companies and organizations join. Working groups will form after the first of the year, he says, and the task force will do much of its investigatory work in January and February.
“We intend to work quickly,” Reiner says. “We’re looking to pool our…