Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The state of cyber liability insurance The topic of cyber liability insurance is full of datapoints, statistics and graphs all showing upward trajectories. What are you doing about backups? For more on this take a look at our guide: How Cyber Insurance Can Be a Lifeline in Today’s Evolving Threat Landscape.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Within that, it's four categories: preparation, updates, protection, and backups. Cyber defense is about test, test, test.". Familiarize yourself and your organization with cyber insurance. And we want to partner with cyber insurance in order to share that information that will allow us to do that.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

They followed the FBI’s advice to not pay the hackers and restored their system from backups they had kept for such an emergency. The school district’s cyber insurance provided free credit monitoring, but many parents were still puzzled by how to report the problem and what steps they should take next to protect their children.

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Cytelligence

JANUARY 27, 2020

billion and a new organization will fall victim to ransomware every 14 seconds, and every 11 seconds by 2021*. Effectiveness of data backup strategies. Unfortunately, the citizens of the country had to pay the ransom as the city had no cyber insurance. Damages from ransomware in 2019 rose to over $11.5

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Ransomware attacks increased by yet another 80% between February 2021 and March 2022, based on an analysis of ransomware payloads seen across the Zscaler cloud. Three of the most infamous ransomware families of the past two years had assets seized by law enforcement in 2021. Have a response plan.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 14, 2021

Processing plant stood dormant after halting operations on June 1, 2021 in Greeley, Colorado. Create backups and secure remote access, because during COVID, [the majority of attacks] were remote access credential stuffing or credential reuse, where the remote access didn’t have MFA enabled, and it was either RDP or a VPN concentrator.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

One attack in particular thrust ransomware into the spotlight as never before, the May 2021 Colonial Pipeline attack. Ransomware attacks doubled in 2021 and now number roughly 500 million a year, according to SonicWall. Conti Around 20% of attacks in early 2022 were from Conti, the group behind the 2021 Irish health services attack.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

JBS - $11 Million Ransom Paid JBS, the world's largest meat processing company, was forced to shut down plants in the US, Canada, and Australia in May 2021 after an attack that threatened to release data related to its facilities, clients, finances, and more. Use immutable object storage for backups. Colonial Pipeline - $4.4

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Cisco Security

JULY 11, 2022

And this is not an isolated case – Comparitech published a story ‘ Ransomware attacks on US schools and colleges cost $3.56bn in 2021 ’ and outlined how threat actors have evolved with their ransomware attacks on schools and colleges. In 2021: . In 2021: . Key findings . Hackers demanded up to $52.3

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 11, 2021

Thu, 08/12/2021 - 05:19. Cyber crooks are getting more sophisticated and IT professionals have tough times struggling to detect and block malicious interventions at early stages. Even the most critical damages caused by ransomware are repairable as long as you have a solid backup strategy. How Not to Pay the Ransom?

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Cisco Security

MARCH 22, 2022

To help you as you shore up your cyber defenses, Bruce Brody originally posted this blog – “Left of Boom” Cybersecurity: Proactive Cybersecurity in a Time of Increasing Threats and Attacks on October 18, 2021. Left of Boom refers to actions you can take to protect your organization before a cyber incident.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

8, 2021 shows Reshaev ordering Pin to quietly check on the activity of the Conti network administrators once a week — to ensure they’re not doing anything to undermine the integrity or security of the group’s operation. 12, 2021, in regards to their ransomware negotiations with LeMans Corp.,

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