Cisco Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

As a result of this, next year we could see CISOs tightening up the disclosure decision making process, focusing on quicker and greater clarity on breach impact, and even looking to include personal liability cover in cyber insurance contracts. Increasing demands from insurers. How Zero Trust will progress.

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Recently, while co-hosting a webinar that kicked off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a panelist commented that cybersecurity and privacy are team sports on a campus, much like our athletic teams. In a recent Duo blog post, we gave an overview of cyber liability insurance.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2021

Other cybersecurity news.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

A recent domain hijack of Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck.com was used to spoof the company in a spear-phishing campaign. Whether your company is international or a regional operation, the time to invest in a cybersecurity audit was yesterday. Over 200 customers engaged with the hackers before they were discovered.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 10, 2022

Without cyber insurance , you can expect to pay a dizzying amount of cash. In 2022 alone, the average cost of a data breach for businesses under 1,000 employees was close to $3 million—and these costs are coming from activities that cyber insurers typically cover, such as detecting and responding to the breach.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Originally, these attacks began as phishing emails that compromised employee credentials, but later variants branched into tricking members of the human resources (HR) and financial departments into making the changes for an executive. If you have cyber insurance, will it cover some or all BEC incidents?

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Use multi-factor authentication. That’s where multi-factor authentication (MFA) comes in. It is hugely effective: It can protect you from stolen passwords and credential stuffing, shut out online and offline brute-force guessing attacks, and some forms of MFA will even stop phishing attempts. Turn off RDP wherever you can.

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Everyone in the cyber insurance industry or trying to get cyber insurance today knows that using multifactor authentication (MFA) is an absolute make-or-break requirement for getting a cyber insurance policy; or if you can get a policy without MFA, you will pay a hefty increased premium for the same amount of coverage.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2022

It wasn’t just the recent Uber attack in which the victim’s Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) was compromised; at the core of the vast majority of cyber incidents is the theft and abuse of legitimate credentials. 2 – Continued ‘hacktivism’ from non-state actors complicates cyber attribution and security strategies.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 8, 2022

The solution includes integrated cybersecurity and immutable storage options that cost-effectively scale-out. The Cyber Incident Recovery offering provides immutable and air-gapped backup for data recovery with at least one offline backup copy. Cloud Services works on platforms and in any location. Sungard AS.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Click here to watch the roundtable and learn about the future of cyber insurance from leading experts. In partnership with Cysurance, BlastWave hosted a roundtable entitled “The Future of Cyber Insurance and MSP Insurability. The expert panelists held an honest discussion about insurability difficulties for MSPs.

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Duo's Security Blog

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Unlike passwords, passkeys are always strong and phishing resistant. Remote Users The web authentication process begins when the remote user wants to connect to an application. Users need to be trained since they’re a new way of authentication, but typically users can enroll or manage them through a UI-driven workflow by themselves.

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Logins without multi-factor authentication. Attackers guess the passwords easily, find them in open source code repositories, or collect them via phishing. Some can’t afford not to pay, and some are covered by cyber insurance. Enable multi-factor authentication. Should I get a ransomware cyber insurance policy?

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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. Whether deployed by ransomware groups or individuals via ransomware as a service (RaaS) , the most common method of ransomware deployment is a phishing email.

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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Cybersecurity can often feel like a game of cat and mouse where cyber attackers and defenders engage in a chase, with one party trying to outsmart the other. Just like in previous years, 2024 is set to test practitioners’ skills as the frequency of cyber threats continues to surge leaving no room for complacency.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Cybersecurity insurance will offset the ransom. Another factor that can weigh into making the decision to pay the ransom demanded by ransomware is having cybersecurity insurance. Implement good email phishing/SPAM filtering to help filter out obvious malicious SPAM emails with infected links, attachments, and other files.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2021

Cybersecurity experts at both Microsoft and SecureWorks said that the hacker group – called Nobelium by Microsoft but which also is known as APT29 – accessed the Constant Contact email marketing account used by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to launch phishing campaigns against a broad array of targets.

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