A new website, StopRansomware.gov, has been designed to be a one-stop shop where individuals, businesses and other organizations can find resources to help mitigate their ransomware risk.

WASHINGTON—Federal agencies are stepping up their efforts to help public- and private-sector organizations protect themselves from attack.

A new website, StopRansomware.gov, has been designed to be a one-stop shop where individuals, businesses and other organizations can find resources to help mitigate their ransomware risk.

Launched July 15 by the departments of Justice, Homeland Security and other federal partners, the site consolidates ransomware information from all federal agencies, “reducing the chances organizations miss important information on the latest ransomware-related alerts and threats from DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, the Secret Service, the FBI, the Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Departments of the Treasury and Health and Human Services,” according to the government and GCN.com.

Simple Steps

The Justice Department further said StopRansomware.gov aims to help organizations take simple steps to protect their networks and respond to ransomware incidents, while providing enterprise-level IT teams the technical resources to reduce their ransomware risk.

The site also includes the latest news and alerts as well as clear guidance on how to report attacks, isolate and triage affected systems and contain and mitigate the impact.

In addition, it features a section for state, local, tribal and territorial governments listing no-cost services – such as self-assessments and training – they can use to guard against ransomware and attacks against election infrastructure, GCN.com added.