Ransomware bans won’t stop ransomware. Resilience might (opens in new tab)

The omission of a ransomware payments ban from this year’s King’s Speech was striking. Not because the proposal had been formally abandoned, but because only months earlier it appeared to be one of the government’s headline cyber policy ambitions. It featured prominently in consultations, was discussed as part of a broader effort to strengthen national resilience, and was framed as a tougher stance against cybercriminal extortion. Yet in both the Cyber Action Plan earlier this year and in the...