Security News > 2020 > February > NIST Drafts Guidelines for Coping With Ransomware

"We are more interested in ransomware that models behavior that we saw in the WannaCry attacks, where ransomware can exploit a vulnerability and propagate across a network," Ekstrom, who helped work on the documents, tells Information Security Media Group.

One significant reason why NIST created these practice guidelines now is that the nature of ransomware has changed over the last two years, Ekstrom says.

The document "Data Integrity: Identifying and Protecting Assets Against Ransomware and Other Destructive Events" offers a guide for organizations to better identify and protect their IT assets from data integrity attacks, including ransomware.

The second draft, "Data Integrity: Detecting and Responding to Ransomware and Other Destructive Events," offers advice on improving the detection and mitigation of ransomware and other security issues within their infrastructure.

The draft guidelines from NIST come at a time when ransomware attacks are increasingly destructive and costing businesses and other organizations even more money - whether it's paying the attackers or rebuilding the infrastructure.

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