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RSAC Fireside Chat: Operationalizing diverse security to assure customers, partners–and insurers

The Last Watchdog

Related: Getting the most from cyber insurance At RSAC 2025, I met with ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe to trace a quiet but growing convergence: endpoint defense, cyber insurance, and monoculture risk are no longer separate concerns. Cyber insurers want it. And increasingly, that evidence is under scrutiny.

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‘Treacherous Territory’: Cyber Experts Warn of Unprecedented Threats

eSecurity Planet

Airlines, insurance firms, and other industries are finding themselves in the crosshairs of increasingly sophisticated hackers, and experts say both businesses and individuals must act now to avoid falling victim. Unlike in the past, where data was mostly kept inside secure company networks, data today moves across the open internet.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Wrist slap or cultural shift? SEC fines cyber firms for disclosure violations

The Last Watchdog

Stuart McClure, CEO, Qwiet AI McClure The SEC’s goal appears to be to hold these companies accountable to investors for any successful cyberattacks and expose the company’s lack of preparation and prevention. Other companies may continue to rely on hiding the ball, scapegoating and relying on insurance to cover the losses.

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An Interview With the Target & Home Depot Hacker

Krebs on Security

for stealing data on nearly 10 million customers of the Australian health insurance giant Medibank. By way of example, he suggested maybe a company centered around recovering lost passwords for cryptocurrency accounts, or perhaps a series of online retail stores that sold cheap Chinese goods at a steep markup in the United States.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: Inside the access mess no one sees — and the identity risk no one owns

The Last Watchdog

The evidence is mounting: •62% of interactive intrusions involved valid account abuse, according to CrowdStrike’s 2023 threat report. With regulatory frameworks like GDPR and HIPAA intensifying scrutiny—and cyber insurers demanding tighter access controls—SPHERE’s platform-based approach is gaining traction. But the world has changed.

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Healthcare Now Third-Most Targeted Industry for Ransomware

SecureWorld News

From the report: " Samples of the stolen data can be easily found on the clear web, accessible to anyone with internet access. We need to remember, like every industry, there is huge gap between the dozen or so large Fortune 100 health insurance payers, and the 1 million hospitals and doctors offices.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Human and machine identity risks are converging — and they’re finally visible

The Last Watchdog

Non-human service accounts have quietly become one of the biggest liabilities in enterprise security. Yet despite their scale, service accounts remain largely invisible to traditional IAM and PAM systems. Yet despite their scale, service accounts remain largely invisible to traditional IAM and PAM systems.