Public Private Partnerships to Combat Ransomware: An inquiry into three case studies and best practices

This research report examines three existing public-private partnerships to combat ransomware: Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre (EC3), the United States Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), and the Institute for Security and Technology’s Ransomware Task Force (RTF). In selecting these cases, our goal was to highlight three separate elements of the effort to combat ransomware: criminally focused prosecution and disruption, operational collaboration, and policy measures. Additionally, each model is in different stages of development, with EC3 operating for a decade, and the RTF and the JCDC having launched in late-2020 and 2021 respectively.

This report utilises these case studies to determine the characteristics of collaboration that make the partnership model successful in mitigating ransomware, as well as identifying the various challenges each faces. Therefore, their main guiding research questions included: 

• How do these specific public-private partnerships to combat ransomware operate?
• What principles underlie existing partnerships that can be applied to other contexts and applications?

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Source: PRODAFT

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