Ransomware Preparedness Must Be a Boardroom Priority: NCSC Chief

The NCSC and FBI warn organizations to make ransomware preparedness a strategic priority, urging resilience over ransom payments, multi-year cybersecurity planning, and executive engagement; they also highlight an emerging 'Patch Wave' where AI-driven and rapid exploitation of disclosed vulnerabilities increases risk and shortens remediation windows, and stress the importance of public-private threat intelligence sharing and tested recovery plans.