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Home Office/techUK SME roundtable on proposed legislation to address the threat of ransomware

Name: Home Office/techUK SME roundtable on proposed legislation to address the threat of ransomware
Start: 2025-03-03T14:00:00
End: 2025-03-03T15:30:00
Location: techUK, 10 St Bride Street, London, EC4A 4AD

2pm – 3.30pm 3 March 2025 techUK, 10 St Bride Street, London, EC4A 4AD
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The proposed legislation which will increase incident reporting and reduce payments to criminals. The 3 proposals are:

A targeted ban on ransomware payments for all public sector bodies, including local government, and for owners & operators of CNI that is regulted or has competent authorities.
A new ransomware payment prevention regime, to cover all potential payments from the UK.
A ransomware incident reporting regime, which could include a threshold-based mandatory reporting requirement for suspected victims of ransomware.

The Home Office team is interested in a discussion with techUK's SME members specifically on their reflections on these three proposals and how members see their organisations operating under such measures going forward.

The Ransomware: proposals to increase incident reporting and reduce payments to criminals consultation will close at 5pm on Tuesday 8^th April.

techUK will be submitting a response on behalf of members. If you would like to contribute to techUK’s response, please contact Annie Collings at [email protected].

Members are also encouraged to submit your own response to the Consultation.