The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Byron: To detect deep fakes, organizations can use digital watermarking, AI-driven detection tools, and media provenance tracking. Byron: Companies often underestimate threats, neglect basic cyber hygiene, and fail to educate employees on cybersecurity. What factors should organizations consider when selecting a cyber insurance policy?

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

He referenced an insurer’s role in designing pressure relief valves for the steam engines powering Philadelphia in the 1800s: “They said if you wanted to have insurance, you have to have this piece of architecture on your system.” In so doing, “they drove security or solutions to avoid large insurance claims.”.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 2, 2022

Some industries saw particularly high growth of double-extortion attacks, including healthcare (643%), food service (460%), mining (229%), education (225%), media (200%), and manufacturing (190%). Use a zero trust architecture to secure internal applications, making them invisible to attackers. Have a response plan.

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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s where attackers work search engine rankings or paid social media content by employing deceptive techniques such as keyword stuffing, hidden text, link farms, or other unethical practices to drive traffic to their websites and gain undeserved visibility in search engine results. Instead, they’ll be questioning can they afford not to.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Implement strong network segmentation, zero trust architecture, least privilege access controls, and VPNs to strictly limit lateral movement. Prepare crisis communications plans for leadership, customers, media, and partners. Businesses will need to demonstrate cyber risk management to get the best premiums.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

It can also help inform cyber insurers, who may choose to raise premiums for companies that can’t document where their code comes from. The post In wake of giant software hacks, application security tactics due for an overhaul appeared first on SC Media. Now it’s up to us all as a society to do it.”.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s a little blunt to be a solution,” said Mike McNerney, chief operating officer of Resilience, which provides cyber insurance, and a former policy adviser to the Department of Defense. And allies often want to help – an important factor given the global architecture of many ransomware campaigns.

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