Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Your level of prevention is determined by how much risk you accept to take on. There are two extremes to prevent cyberattacks: Overly permissive prevention and absolute prevention—and where you fall on that spectrum depends on the level of risk in your organization. Bonus: Cyber insurance. “2FA is simple."

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

While the risk of an employee clicking on a foreign prince’s secret gold offer may be past us, modern-day technologies have evolved and expanded in today’s remote work and IoT-connected settings. Kind of like how your car insurance needs to know your location, make and model, and how many teenagers will be behind the wheel.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

Phishing attacks, for instance, are extremely common: these are deceptive emails or messages designed to steal data. Ransomware is another significant threat, where attackers encrypt an organization's data and demand payment for its release.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

And a key part of building out any cybersecurity policy for your local government is to develop an organizational understanding of risk to systems, people, data, and so on. Take cyber insurance , for example. Related : Cyber threat hunting for SMBs: How MDR can help. Adopt the fundamentals.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

From there, these tools send alerts to security teams if and when risks are identified. Vulnerability management is handled not only by cybersecurity and IT teams but by cross-functional teams that understand how assets are used across the organization.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2022

Cost of Breach Could Be Greater Than The Expected Cost Savings. IBM’s annual Cost of a Data Breach study revealed a single data breach could cost a company up to $3.29 That $3.29, even with cyber insurance, is still a significant hit to the organization’s bottom line.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 27, 2022

43% believe that implementing multifactor authentication (MFA) would have made a difference in preventing breaches. Multifactor authentication jumps to the top of the list. Multifactor Authentication (MFA), in the context of a “mitigation strategy,” jumped to the top of list in preventing breaches. Data Breach.

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 11, 2022

In this mix, we now have an increasing level of cybersecurity attacks, which not only put personal data at risk, but also threaten to stop the operations of an institution altogether. Using multi-factor authentication (MFA) to prevent or mitigate the impact of Education Services threats is a common control in all but two scenarios.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

We should encrypt data at rest. We should use multi-factor authentication. Paying for internal assessments and penetration tests by a third party can provide fresh thinking and a level of assurance for stakeholders such as customers, the board of directors, and the insurance company that wrote our cyber insurance policy.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 15, 2023

There’s no word if any of the schools affected paid the ransom and had their data leaked anyway, or if the ransomware gang stuck to its word and “only” leaked in cases of non-payment. Ensure your RDP points are locked down with a good password and multi-factor authentication. Keep your tools in good shape.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As demand for cyber risk insurance increases, two recent developments could have policyholders scrambling to check their cover. In the United States, a judge dismissed a claim against an insurance company that refused to pay extra for losses due to business email compromise. And the cyber insurance market keeps growing.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 2, 2020

These were companies spanning all sorts of different industries; big tech, general infosec, antivirus, hosting, finance, e-commerce, cyber insurance - I could go on. Anyone can cobble together a website with some APIs and load in a ton of data breaches, but establishing trust is a whole different story.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Whether it is synchronized files from on-premises to cloud environments or the risk of encryption of cloud email, ransomware is a real threat to your data. In IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2019 cited the following: Lost business is the biggest contributor to data breach costs The average cost of lost business in 2019 was $1.42

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. cyber insurance as a whole was changing heavily. And why is that? It started off pretty easy to get.

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