The ransomware ban, whilst hailed as a decisive step, experts caution that without parallel investment in resilience, hospitals, councils, and schools remain dangerously exposed.

Britain is embroiled in a shadow war, and as threats evolve so must the business models we use to fight back, says Mark Wheatley

We may not be in the middle of a full-blown conflagration. But we are embroiled in something like a shadow war. The threats we in Britain face today – from cyberattack to space – are invisible, but discernible.

Cast your mind back a few months, to the takedown of the Marks & Spencer website . That ransomware attack, thought to be carried out by the group Scattered Spider, not only broke the site but froze online orders and crashed key systems, such as Click & Collect, stock control

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