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17 cyber insurance application questions you'll need to answer

CSO Magazine

I recently had to renew the cyber insurance policy for the office and it was interesting to see the evolution of questions asked over the years. At first, most of the cyber insurance questions involved basic computer security and merely checked to see if we had firewalls and antivirus and not much else.

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What is not included in a Cyber Insurance Policy

CyberSecurity Insiders

Ever wondered what is covered and what is not in your Cyber Insurance Policy? If not, you better review the guidelines and inform all your C-level employees on strategies to cope with the losses that remain out of the cyber insurance cover. Otherwise, the cyber insurer will not offer any policy coverage.

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Cyber Defense Magazine: Exclusive Interview with Robert Herjavec

Herjavec Group

History shows he’s the first person to wrap the remote management business model around firewalls, from a small office on the east coast of Canada., In 2003, he knew that firewalls were too complex for all IT staff and for understaffed companies to manage. He and his tiny team of 3 people, began the world’s first MSSP.

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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

The costs of recovering from such incidents, especially for smaller organizations without cyber insurance, can be devastating. Implementing cost-effective cybersecurity tools There are numerous affordable or even free tools available to nonprofits to help them enhance their overall cyber hygiene.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. These solutions include next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), email gateway security software, data loss prevention (DLP), and endpoint security and antivirus software. Bitdefender : Bitdefender Antivirus Plus.

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34 Most Common Types of Network Security Protections

eSecurity Planet

Penetration Testing Product Guides 9 Best Penetration Testing Tools 10 Top Open Source Penetration Testing Tools Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) move beyond the traditional perimeter of a network to provide protections at the application layer of the TCP/IP stack.

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Ransomware Prevention, Detection, and Simulation

NetSpi Executives

Do antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools stop ransomware? Only about 20% of the ransomware tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP) used by ransomware attackers are identified out-of-the-box by antivirus (AV), endpoint detection and response (EDR), and security information and event management (SIEM) tools.