This 23-page paper evaluates how U.S. federal agencies confront ransomware threats in 2025. Page 2 shows agencies face unique risks: sensitive data, regulatory constraints, and high-value targets. Trends include more law-enforcement pressure on attackers, rising data-exfiltration events, and decreasing ransom payments (page 7). Page 10 highlights that budgets for security and recovery continue to grow but remain insufficient. Federal entities often overestimate readiness—page 13 shows only 30% were fully prepared pre-attack. The report recommends improved cross-team collaboration, immutable backups, automated policy-based protection, multi-cloud recovery flexibility, and staged restorations to avoid re-infection.

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