Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

4 interview, VCPI’s acting chief information security officer — Mark Schafer , CISO at Wisconsin-based SVA Consulting — confirmed that the company received a nearly identical message that same morning, and that the wording seemed “very similar” to the original extortion demand the company received. .”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The only saving grace was that the city had invested in both on-premise and cloud backups. On the business side, the plan should address elements such as having a communication plan for the CISO, CIO and company executives as well as a risk management component that includes cyber insurance. Backup Strategy. The Attack.

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Cisco Security

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The primary job of the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) is to exercise continuous diligence in reducing risk, within the risk appetite and risk tolerance of the organization, so that the likelihood of a boom is low, and the corresponding magnitude of harm is limited. Having insurance and the ability to pay a ransom is not the answer!

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The cybersecurity regulations apply to entities overseen by the NYDFS, such as financial institutions, insurance companies, agents, and brokers, as well as banks, trusts, mortgage lenders and brokers, money transmitters, check cashers, and other related businesses.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 18, 2021

This is what informs his perspective: "My role in practical terms is to be somewhat like the conductor of the symphony that comes in when there's this issue to work with cyber insurance providers, t o work with forensics firms, to work with PR firms, to work with data decryption negotiation firms, all of this. W e've got backups.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 19, 2022

PFC said in some cases, SSNs and information about health insurance and medical treatment were also stolen. In the last 18 months, companies have been misled into believing that investing in backup and recovery solutions is the answer to their ransomware woes. ” The post Breach of healthcare debt collection firm exposes 1.9M

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Take cyber insurance , for example. Cyber insurance can prevent local governments from having to pay huge out of pocket costs in the event that they’re hit with a cyberattack. An important caveat here is that cyber insurance is becoming increasingly expensive: check out our article on 4 ways to save money on cyber insurance ).

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

English-speaking countries, particularly the US, UK, Canada, and Australia, have well-developed insurance markets and higher cybersecurity awareness, resulting in higher ransomware insurance adoption. However, some cyber insurance policies explicitly forbid ransom payments. Figure 4: Ransomware negotiation (source: Ransomware[.]live)

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 23, 2022

Despite this, a 2019 poll of 1,300 large international organisations by insurance broker wtw found that only 11 per cent of boards have taken direct responsibility for their firms’ cyber security. 2 Talk to your CISO. Few chief information security officers (CISOs) have a close relationship with the board in their organisations?—?many

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Malwarebytes

JULY 27, 2022

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? Start with your CISO, COO and all department heads, as well as any security staff you have,” Kujawa says.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

And we need to be out in front of that change to ensure our users are secure, and that we're giving them the best experience that we can." — Adam Leisring, CISO, Paycor, during his keynote at SecureWorld Cincinnati-Detroit-Toronto. #3. And that's just good, regular backups of data.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2022

That $3.29, even with cyber insurance, is still a significant hit to the organization’s bottom line. The CISO should be the ultimate authority when reducing cybersecurity operations, personnel, and budgets. Number of endpoints that require backup for compliance. The number of endpoints required to have EDR/XDR security.

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SC Magazine

JULY 1, 2021

The CIOs and CISOs suggested that while real-time patch status may be known for certain devices, it does not exist for many.”. The way health systems are structured, with many providers insuring their organization, it proves challenging to change behaviors,” he continued. “If

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Spinone

DECEMBER 26, 2018

I’m not exaggerating: A s ecure cloud backup solution can save hours, days, months and years of your team’s work. That said, empower your employees with an effective and simple Data Loss Protection solution , allowing Automated backup and restore, deletion control , smooth migration, version control , activity reports, etc.,

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Attackers will target network peripheral devices: network attached storage (NAS), backup storage, telephones, network equipment, and end-of-life assets. It’s always tempting to blame budgets, but most CISOs feel confident about their budgets and have already deployed significant resources. 54% on-prem infrastructure. 50% cloud targets.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Example: “This policy is in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and other applicable data protection regulations. This policy’s execution will be overseen by the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO).

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

For example, it is unclear how much data would have been unrecoverable if a decryption key had not become available as the HSE’s backup infrastructure was only periodically backed up to offline tape. “For example, they do not have a CISO or a Security Operations Center established.”

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Preparing for Q-Day in 2025 should be a top priority for CISOs for this very reason. Krishna Vishnubhotla, Vice President, Threat Intelligence at Zimperium: Surge in Mobile-Specific Ransomware "Mobile-specific ransomware is a rapidly evolving threat that should be top of mind for every CISO. Growing patchwork of U.S.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 5, 2025

That headache is real, of course, but accountants and lawyers will step up to sort it out," said Mike Wilkes , Former CISO, MLS; Adjunct Professor, NYU. So what should CISOs do? The domains of cybersecurity, cybercrime investigations, and cyber insurance will all be impacted. The biggest danger is making rushed choices.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

At times it can seem like a war of attrition, which brings us to the first series of predictions for 2020: CISOs will get worse at their jobs. We will also see better backup practices that will help minimize or neutralize the threat of these attacks. . You’re going to have personal cyber insurance. million).

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