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Report: Cyber Insurance Not Driving Ransomware Market

SecureWorld News

-based Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) for Defence and Security Studies conducted an extensive 12-month research project , which aimed to examine the role of cyber insurance in addressing the threats posed by ransomware. RUSI's research challenges the notion that cyber insurance is a direct catalyst for ransomware.

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Spotlight on Cybersecurity Leaders: Kip Boyle

SecureWorld News

He helps senior decision makers overcome cybersecurity sales objections and manages unlimited cyber risks through rigorous prioritization. In the private sector, he was a CISO for an insurance company, credit card processor, bank, credit union, and IT Managed Service Provider. See the conference agenda and register here.

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12 Pieces Examining Trends in Cybersecurity for 2023

SecureWorld News

Top 10 Challenges Facing CISOs in 2023 – "While 2022 was certainly no walk in the park, strong cybersecurity investments and institutional support suggest a light at the end of the tunnel. As we turn toward 2023, these will be the top ten challenges facing CISOs in the new year.".

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Businesses Secretly Pentest Partners as Supply Chain Fears Grow

eSecurity Planet

Howard Taylor, CISO of Radware, goes so far as to call it the “death of trust.” But the mere presence of closet security testers secretly carrying out pentests on partner and customer internet-facing resources could have serious repercussions on relationships if discovered.

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Local government cybersecurity: 5 best practices

Malwarebytes

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. End use of unsupported/end of life software and hardware that are accessible from the Internet. Baltimore learned this the hard way.

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Cyber Defense Magazine: Exclusive Interview with Robert Herjavec

Herjavec Group

I was personally honored in my early career to work for Wang Laboratories and was invited to share one of my visions ‘fax over the internet’ with the company, which I invented. Within this whirlwind of all things moving to the internet, insurance vendors recently began to take cyber insurance very seriously.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

Last Watchdog had the chance to visit with Michael Sutton, former longtime CISO of cloud security vendor Zscaler, who recently signed on as advisor to a fresh, new SOAR startup, Syncurity. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW