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How to Decrypt Ransomware Files – And What to Do When That Fails

eSecurity Planet

First, call the cyber insurance company that issued the organization’s cybersecurity policy. Most insurance companies require specific incident response vendors, procedures, and reporting that must be met to meet the standards to be insured. The First Calls After an Attack.

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Cyber Defense Magazine: Exclusive Interview with Robert Herjavec

Herjavec Group

Within this whirlwind of all things moving to the internet, insurance vendors recently began to take cyber insurance very seriously. They first sold it asking ‘do you have antivirus and a firewall’ – check box one, check box two, now you have cyber insurance. MSSP EXPLOSION – will lead to MSSP CONSOLIDATION.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. It can shut down your business – in the case of healthcare organizations that can be life-threatening for patients – damage your reputation with customers and employees, and invite further attacks as cybercriminals view your organization as an easy mark. Offline Backups.

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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.

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What is Ransomware? Everything You Should Know

eSecurity Planet

Cyber criminals have learned that it is not only businesses that make soft targets for the attacks. Hospitals and healthcare organizations are being infected by ransomware, with predictably dire results. If you have a cyber insurer , they will have their own processes for responding to any cyber attack.

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Ransomware Prevention Guide for Enterprise

Spinone

In fact, one report shows that business email compromises are 23% of cyber insurance claims. Endpoint security includes antivirus, anti-malware, and anti-ransomware solutions that scan and protect your end-user clients.

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USAID Email Phishing Campaign Shows Supply Chain Threats Continue

eSecurity Planet

More generally, SecureWorks said employees should be trained how to recognize phishing attempts, and Microsoft’s Burt said other practices of good cybersecurity hygiene – such as using multi-factor authentication and antivirus and antimalware software – should also be common. Nation-State Interests.