According to the Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, US businesses should invest more resources in security and be prepared for a blitz of ransomware attacks that might be conducted by countries and criminal organizations beyond the continent, CNBC informed.
In a televised interview with Eamon Javers, Monaco underlined that CEOs in the US have to be prepared to act upon the steep growth of these type of attacks.
Monaco, who led the efforts of the Justice Department to counter cyber attacks, claimed that the newest attacks on the Colonial Pipeline and JBS, a meat processing company, were just some of the examples that are constantly happening.
Monaco also said that business leaders should devote to make their companies much more resilient to these kind of attacks starting with training their heads of security to be prepared to contact local FBI leaders if such an attack occurs.
She also issued a memo to the federal prosecutors in which she asks for a centralized reporting of the ransomware attacks. After Monace became part of the Justice Department she established a 12-day review of the cybersecurity challenges that this department is facing.
She stated that the currently taken actions in the DOJ correspond to the threat that this ransomware attacks pose to the national and economic security.
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