Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

As we’ve seen recently, cyber insurance is no guarantee of avoiding a ransomware pitfall either with refusal of payout being decided in a court of law. Ensure your RDP points are locked down with a good password and multi-factor authentication. Backup your data. Make an emergency plan sooner, rather than later.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The state of cyber liability insurance The topic of cyber liability insurance is full of datapoints, statistics and graphs all showing upward trajectories. Security Magazine reports less than 10% of companies with fewer than 50 employees have dedicated financial resources for cybersecurity.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Use multi-factor authentication. That’s where multi-factor authentication (MFA) comes in. Make offsite, offline backups. To make this possible you’ll need comprehensive, recently tested, backups that are both offline and offsite, beyond the reach of your attackers. Can your EDR handle a ransomware attack?

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Logins without multi-factor authentication. Hunt and destroy or encrypt backups hosted in local and cloud networks as well as virtual machine snapshots. Some can’t afford not to pay, and some are covered by cyber insurance. Enable multi-factor authentication. Protect your backup systems.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Ransomware is the most feared cybersecurity threat and with good reason: Its ability to cripple organizations by locking their data is a threat like no other. Even small and midsize businesses (SMBs) have become targets because of their lack of cybersecurity measures.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 21, 2020

The ISO assisted the college in restoring locally managed IT services and systems from backup copies. The University had servers encrypted but restored the systems and the access from backups. It had cyber insurance: "The university’s cyber insurance policy paid part of the ransom, and the university covered the remainder.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 6, 2021

Four years ago, the Australian Signals Directorate created the “Essential Eight” — recommendations to secure federal entities and improve cybersecurity protections. The UK’s National CyberSecurity Centre (NCSC) already provides a number of recommendations that overlap the Australian, US, and EU directives.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2022

If an organization announced any change in financial condition, an increase in attack vectors, coordinated attacks again their systems, and cybersecurity attacks against their employees should be expected. That $3.29, even with cyber insurance, is still a significant hit to the organization’s bottom line.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2022

You don’t need a dedicated SOC or crazy enterprise-grade cybersecurity to deal with “attacks of opportunity.”. How do you restore from backups , and what backups are most important to restore from first? Do you have resources that can help you , such as law enforcement agencies or a cyber insurance firm?

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As is often the case, the cost of restoring files from backups can amount to more than paying the ransom. Backups aren’t working. Restoring from backup is certainly preferable to paying the bad guys for the damage they have inflicted. Ransomware today can actually look for backup files along with user data.

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Cisco Security

MARCH 22, 2022

But according to Anne Neuberger, the White House’s Deputy National Security Adviser for Cyber and Emerging Technology, this warning is “based on evolving threat intelligence, that the Russian government is exploring options for potential cyberattacks on critical infrastructure in the United States.”. Backup all critical data at least daily.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

Obviously, organizations gotten smart to that and they started doing offline backups securing their backups differently, so that they would continue to have access and availability. VAMOSI: So right there, this seems like some kind of authentication bypass. By no means. Does that mean that there was no ransomware occurring?

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SC Magazine

MAY 13, 2021

Last year a friend was preparing for a cybersecurity roundtable and asked me a thought-provoking question: What “black swan” event will make the world take stock of cybersecurity as an existential risk to the world? This leads to a situation where cybersecurity risk levels are below acceptable tolerances.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 12, 2020

If the law firm had cyber insurance, the policy may cover part of a ransom payment. When Florida cities paid more than a million dollars to ransomware operators in 2019, insurance covered most of it. The company says we're not going to pay the ransom, or we've got the backups.

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