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IT Security Guru
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Cyber insurers are losing money. Their loss ratios – total claims plus the insurer’s costs, divided by total premiums earned – are now consistently above 60%, which presents something of an existential threat to the insurance industry, making cyber risk a potentially uninsurable area due to falling profitability.
Schneier on Security
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
One possible solution, touted by former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on a recent podcast , would be for the federal government to step in and help pay for these sorts of attacks by providing a cyber insurance backstop.
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SecureWorld News
AUGUST 18, 2020
The Company is working with industry leading cybersecurity firms to immediately respond to the threat, defend the Company's information technology systems, and conduct remediation. Ransomware attacks: another argument for cyber insurance? And cyber attorney Shawn Tuma tells SecureWorld he agrees with that sentiment. "In
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.
Security Boulevard
JUNE 23, 2022
In just a few years, cyber has transformed from the nerd in the corner into the Kim Kardashian of risk. businesses can be built on, and destroyed by, cyber risk. Cyber risk is seen as an IT issue, but our research shows that 90 per cent of incidents leading to cyber insurance claims resulted from human behaviour.
Pen Test
OCTOBER 10, 2023
Sopra Steria - One of the Largest Reported Ransoms Europe's major IT services firm Sopra Steria was breached in October 2020 by the Ryuk gang, with extensive backups preventing major disruption. Keep backups completely isolated and air-gapped offline to prevent malware from infecting those too. Use immutable object storage for backups.
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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