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Cyber Insurers Pull Back Amid Increase in Cyber Attacks, Costs

eSecurity Planet

A report this month from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the number of companies seeking cyber insurance coverage has steadily risen since 2016 and that insurers are increasing the prices of their policies and lowering their coverage limits as the number of cyberattacks rise. How secure is their architecture?

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NASA Audit: Cyber Risk Skyrockets with 'Work from Home'

SecureWorld News

NASA audit: work from home greatly increases attack surface. The audit proves what we've heard from many security leaders during our SecureWorld Remote Sessions : the pandemic and work from home have greatly increased the cyber attack surface and attack attempts.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 3)

The Last Watchdog

Last Watchdog posed two questions: •What should be my biggest takeaway from 2023, with respect to mitigating cyber risks at my organization? ai Antani Many speculated that the ransomware attack on a Toyota supply chain player in Kojima, Japan was in retaliation for Japan’s aid to Ukraine.

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North Korean Hackers Intensify Cyberattacks on South's Arms Industry

SecureWorld News

"Heavily armored and weaponized nation-state threats are difficult to stop compared to lesser threats of opportunistic eCrime or more immature threats," says Ken Dunham, Cyber Threat Director at Qualys Threat Research Unit. "A

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MY TAKE: Why companies had better start taking the security pitfalls of API proliferation seriously

The Last Watchdog

That said, APIs are certain to get a lot more attention by security teams — and board members concerned about cyber risk mitigation — in 2022. APIs have emerged as a go-to tool used by threat actors in the early phases of sophisticated, multi-stage network attacks.

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RSAC insights: Security platforms arise to help companies discover, assess and mitigate cyber risks

The Last Watchdog

As their organizations migrate deeper into an intensively interconnected digital ecosystem, CISOs must deal with cyber attacks raining down on all fronts. It comes down to taking an informed approach to triaging cyber exposures, Smith says. Pity the poor CISO at any enterprise you care to name. Related: The rise of ‘XDR’.

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Cybersecurity Landscape

Spinone

We covered the cybersecurity landscape including the most high-profile cyber crime statistics: number of attacks, crime targets, cybersecurity spendings, and cyber risk management. Cyber Risk Management It’s important to recognize that what is commonly called cybersecurity is really cyber risk managemen t.