UNIVERSAL ADVANCED Ransomware Negotiation Interdiction and Recovery Ledger Project Acronym: UARNIRL

PROBLEM: Attackers automate the ransomware negotiation interdiction and recovery ledger problem faster than defenders can staff it: the work today is split across disconnected tools, so a signal in one console rarely reaches the record that would prove what happened. Teams cannot show a complete chain from first signal to final action, and that gap is where intrusions persist.

SOLUTION: IBM Cloud Ideas would provide a governed ransomware negotiation interdiction and recovery ledger record: every signal, decision, and outcome logged with lineage, so the capability is auditable end to end. It governs the record and the workflow, not the underlying detection — it makes the defence provable rather than merely claimed.

EVIDENCE BASIS: DOCUMENTED — the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 (2024) and MITRE ATT&CK describe the defensive functions this record would govern; large-scale intrusions such as SolarWinds (2020) and the MOVEit mass exploitation (2023) are documented cases where fragmented records slowed response. Source: NIST CSF 2.0; MITRE ATT&CK; CISA advisories.