In the 6 months since the publication of the Ransomware Task Force (RTF) Progress Report this May, we have seen a great deal of action to combat ransomware, but we have also seen the scale of the threat continue to grow, even as stakeholders continue to focus on it.

On November 11, the 5th Paris Peace Forum gathered leaders from the public and private sectors to discuss how we can work together in a world where we’re all “riding out the multi-crisis.” Split into five stages, four roundtable rooms, and multiple dedicated “spaces for solution” in a historic Parisian palace, the gathering was dazzling, and at least for me, a bit dizzying – the first really global multistakeholder gathering I’ve attended in the pandemic era.

As global nuclear dangers rise, risk reduction efforts through effective crisis communications are more important than ever. Yet differences in constituencies, priorities, and strategic cultures of nuclear weapons states generate disagreement as to which measures genuinely reduce risk.