📋 Tender Overview
On October 31 - November 1 2022 the Counter Ransomware Initiative Summit was held in Washington. The meeting was attended by representatives from 37 countries around the world. Poland joined the group last year. During the meeting countries from all over the world exchanged experiences related to the protection of their IT infrastructure against hacker attacks. In order to jointly develop best practices and tools in combating Internet extortion. Poland was represented at this meeting by Janusz Cieszyski - government plenipotentiary for cybersecurity.This years summit was hosted by Anne Neuberger - deputy national security adviser. On the first day of the summit up-to-date US law enforcement data on the threats of ransomware attacks was presented. Ransomware attacks are based on the installation of special software on the victims device that blocks access to the data. They get encrypted in such a way that it cannot be undone paralyzing the operation of the organization faster than other malicious applications. Moreover representatives of all working groups presented the results of their work conclusions and developed solutions. Our delegation received thanks for the particularly significant participation of Poland in the work of the Public-Private Partnership group. During the second day of the summit activities for the following years were discussed. On that day US Vice President Kamala Harris joined the summit participants. After the summit the participating states developed and adopted a joint statement International Counter Ransomware Initiative 2022 Joint Statement The White House which indicated the special role of cooperation with the private sector and highlighted the role of diplomacy in combating the cross-border threat of ransomware attacks.
