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The future of cyber insurance

IT Security Guru

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.

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Ransomware: Number One Cyber Insurance Claim

SecureWorld News

Trends of cyber insurance claims for 2020. Coalition, a cyber insurance company, recently released a report detailing the categories of cyber attacks as well as the cause behind the attacks for the first half of 2020. The company says that ransomware accounted for 41% of cyber claims. Cyber insurance works.

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Cybersecurity for Nonprofits: Cost-Effective Defense Strategies

SecureWorld News

Nonprofits often juggle tight budgets and unique operational demands, making it even more difficult to keep sensitive information safe—but here's the thing: you don't need a fortune to build a strong defense against the possible cyber threats out there.

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Local government cybersecurity: 5 best practices

Malwarebytes

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. Also delivered free of charge by the NCATS team. Adopt the fundamentals. Baltimore learned this the hard way. (An

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Education Sector has Seen a 44% Rise in Cyber Attacks Since 2021

CyberSecurity Insiders

The education sector is increasingly vulnerable to simple and sophisticated cyber threats, and higher learning is especially vulnerable. Again, this incident demonstrates the importance of maintaining backups of data (especially sensitive and critical data) and managing human behavior as they access the systems. Cyber insurance.

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Ensuring Business Resilience: Integrating Incident Response and Disaster Recovery Plans

Centraleyes

Critical considerations include assessing business recovery risks, ensuring employee safety, and mitigating financial losses. Accelerating a multi-cloud strategy adds layers of resilience, allowing organizations to mitigate downtime risks and scale services based on demand. What is an Incident Recovery Team?

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When it’s personal: Dueling attitudes emerge toward paying ransomware demands

SC Magazine

Of that group, some were willing to let their districts part with sizable amount of money, even though local taxpayers would be (at the very least indirectly via cyber insurance costs) taking a hit as well. We recommend they invest in security and backups to better defend against the threat.”. So why the disparity?