Because the scale of ransomware has become so significant, the Government’s move is a good one – though not necessarily because it will deter the criminals, reckon experts. “The proposed ban on public sector bodies paying ransoms is not surprising,” says Gareth Oldale, partner and head of data privacy and cybersecurity at law firm TLT. “The move to requiring private sector bodies to notify government if they intend to pay a ransom, however, does take this one step further and is perhaps more likely to raise eyebrows across industry.”
