Using evolutionary game theory to mitigate ransomware risks
Ransomware attacks on enterprise IT systems — especially those that are integrated with operational technology (OT) — can cause major disruptions for critical industry sectors, cautions a new cybersecurity whitepaper. Not only does ransomware create unusable file systems, but these attacks disrupt production and distribution of goods, and services and end up costing industries millions of dollars in total losses. The whitepaper, produced by Dragos, describes how IT security leaders can apply evolutionary game theory (EGT) to the complex series of events that lead to a ransomware attack. The paper proposes a mathematical approach to predict behaviors and understand how relationships between a system’s parts give rise to its collective behaviors. “Ransomware has become the primary attack vector for many industrial organizations during 2021,” shares the white paper, and “incidents like Colonial Pipeline, Honeywell and JB Foods showed the world that even when industrial control systems, which are integrated with […]
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