Protecting Users Against Bugs: Software Providers’ Scalable Attempts

Ransomware assaults, such as the one on Change Healthcare, continue to create serious disruptions. However, they are not inevitable. Software developers can create products that are immune to the most frequent types of cyberattacks used by ransomware gangs. This blog discusses what can be done and encourages customers to demand that software companies take action.

Millions of Americans recently experienced prescription medicine delays or were forced to pay full price as a result of a ransomware assault. While the United States has begun to make headway in reacting to cyberattacks, including the passage of incident reporting requirements into law, it is apparent that much more work remains to be done to combat the ransomware epidemic.

Ransomware gangs flourish because they usually attack genuinely easy weaknesses in software that serve as the basis for critical operations and services.

Providing scalable solutions: Company duty

Business leaders of software manufacturers hold the key: They can build products that are resilient against the most common classes of cyberattacks by ransomware gangs.

The security community has known how to eliminate classes of vulnerabilities across software for decades. What is needed is not perfectly secure software but “secure enough” software, which software manufacturers are capable of creating.n exploit remarkably simple vulnerabilities in s

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