SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

The costs of recovering from such incidents, especially for smaller organizations without cyber insurance, can be devastating. It's also important to be picky when it comes to software purchases since things like using invoice financing platforms with weak security can override any internal security efforts you've already undertaken.

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Hacker's King

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Selling Security Software Another significant revenue stream for cybersecurity companies comes from selling security software products. These software solutions range from antivirus programs and firewalls to more advanced intrusion detection systems and encryption tools.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Initial Access Broker (IAB) activity increased by 16% during the reporting period, heavily targeting US-based organizations due to perceived financial capability from cyber insurance. Enterprises should prioritize patching software and adopt a risk-based approach, focusing on vulnerabilities with the greatest potential impact.

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Herjavec Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) has flipped the coin on its head as well – most vendors with great software allow you to leverage the Cloud and spin-up just about anything from your mail server to your sales CRM. They first sold it asking ‘do you have antivirus and a firewall’ – check box one, check box two, now you have cyber insurance.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2022

billion in 2021, and growing concerns over data security , software supply chains , and ransomware suggest the market will remain strong through economic ups and downs. Formed in 1965, Greylock Partners has a long history of investing in enterprise and consumer software for seed and early-stage and beyond. AllegisCyber Capital.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

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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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware attacks followed on Ireland’s Health Service Executive System and meat processing giant JBS Foods, and then in July 2021, IT service management company Kaseya had a number of its downstream customers targeted by ransomware in a software supply chain attack.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Initial Access Broker (IAB) activity increased by 16% during the reporting period, heavily targeting US-based organizations due to perceived financial capability from cyber insurance. Enterprises should prioritize patching software and adopt a risk-based approach, focusing on vulnerabilities with the greatest potential impact.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In this post, we will take a look at ransomware trends, costs, targets, and ransomware prevention software. 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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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

One possible solution, touted by former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on a recent podcast , would be for the federal government to step in and help pay for these sorts of attacks by providing a cyber insurance backstop. But this is easier said than done.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

In a year where the supply chain was on trial, Cycode is a startup filling the vulnerability gap often present in the software supply chain and DevOps pipeline. Also read: SBOMs: Securing the Software Supply Chain. was recently named a Leader in the Forrester Wave’s Privacy Management Software, Q4, 2021. Cowbell Cyber.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 4, 2022

The leaked chats show that the Conti group — which fluctuated in size from 65 to more than 100 employees — budgeted several thousand dollars each month to pay for a slew of security and antivirus tools. For now, take a look at the documents and see if there is insurance and bank statements.”

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2021

A Russian-based group’s cyberattack in late May on a range governmental agencies, think thanks, non-governmental agencies (NGOs) and the like around the world highlight the growing threat from software supply chain campaigns like the high-profile SolarWinds hack that was perpetrated by the same cybercriminals last year.

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