Apparently the government is urging businesses to take measures to stop ransomware attacks. My assumption, based on decades of observation, is that the probability of success of this campaign pretty much zero.
The issue isn't that most companies don't want secure infrastructure. The issue is also not a lack of regulation. The issue is most of them don't have the capacity to implement it.
It's not that it's impossible to do, mind you. Running up to date software, patching regularly, taking backups, using 2FA etc., are not particularly complicated. But solving an arbitrary quadratic equation is also straightforward and I bet most people can't manage that, either.
A great deal of the world's infrastructure, whether IT or physical, seems to be maintained on the "faith based" rather than the "reality based" way of doing things, and I don't see that ending any time soon.
So my message to everyone is this: expect a lot more power plants, pipelines, banks, and all the rest to be shut down. It's not likely to get better any time soon.
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