The Financial Times puts you in the shoes of a CEO who needs to negotiate with hackers who have stolen sensitive data from the company and threaten to release it to the public. Based on real cases and interviews with experts, this game makes an abstract topic approachable

From Weekly Filet #410, in September 2022.

Can you negotiate your way out of a ransomware attack?

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