An inside look into states’ efforts to ban gov’t ransomware payments

North Carolina and Florida broke new ground earlier this year when both states banned government entities from paying ransoms connected to ransomware attacks.  But lawmakers across the U.S. are having trouble replicating that legislative success as experts decry the bans and party leaders balk at wading into an evolving cybersecurity landscape.  Cybersecurity has become a […]

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