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US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency launches ransomware assessment tool

July 1, 2021

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the United States’ counterpart of Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC), has added a ransomware readiness assessment (RRA) module to its Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET) package, offering defenders a desktop tool to help them evaluate their preparedness for ransomware attacks.

The RRA is a self-assessment tool “based on a tiered set of practices” to help defenders better assess how appropriately they are equipped to defend against and recover from a ransomware incident. The tool is tailored to various levels of readiness to make it useful to organisations with differing levels of security maturity.

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