Cyber insurance as part of the cyber threat mitigation strategy
We Live Security
JUNE 26, 2024
Why organizations of every size and industry should explore their cyber insurance options as a crucial component of their risk mitigation strategies
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We Live Security
JUNE 26, 2024
Why organizations of every size and industry should explore their cyber insurance options as a crucial component of their risk mitigation strategies
SecureWorld News
JULY 2, 2024
Global cyber insurance premiums are declining despite an uptick in ransomware attacks, according to a recent report by insurance broker Howden. This trend reflects improved business security practices, evolving insurance industry dynamics, and changing attitudes toward cyber risk management.
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SecureWorld News
JANUARY 11, 2024
Cybersecurity threats are a growing menace, wreaking havoc on businesses and individuals alike. In this digital battlefield, cyber insurance has emerged as a crucial shield, offering financial protection against data breaches, ransomware attacks, and other cyber incidents.
SecureWorld News
MARCH 20, 2024
In this regard, many have touted cyber insurance as the knight in shining armor, the end all-be all in terms of mitigating criminals' assaults on your network. Here, cyber insurance serves as an invaluable safety net by offering essential financial coverage and support services in the event of a ransomware attack occurring.
SecureWorld News
AUGUST 1, 2023
-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.
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.
Security Boulevard
MARCH 15, 2022
With the cyber threat landscape showing no sign of becoming less risky, many businesses want to transfer some of their risk to cyber insurance providers. In fact, by 2020, 78% of corporate risk managers bought some type of cyber insurance coverage for their company. The post What is Cyber Insurance?
eSecurity Planet
APRIL 22, 2022
Cyberattacks are not only a technological problem for companies, but they also represent a very real financial threat. That’s where cyber insurance may be able to help. But there’s a catch: Insurers are going to carefully assess your cybersecurity controls before writing any policy, and there are limits to coverage.
Cytelligence
OCTOBER 18, 2023
Cyber threats have become a significant concern for businesses of all sizes. The cost of cyber attacks, including financial losses, reputational damage, and legal consequences, can be staggering. To mitigate these risks, businesses often invest in cyber insurance. This is where CYPFER comes in.
Trend Micro
JANUARY 8, 2024
As the threat landscape evolves and the cost of data breaches increase, so will cyber insurance requirements from carriers. Cyber Risk Specialist Vince Kearns shares his 4 predictions for 2024.
NetSpi Executives
JANUARY 8, 2024
In case you missed it, Chubb, one of the leading publicly traded property and casualty insurance companies, announced an innovative collaboration with NetSPI to strengthen client cyber-risk profiles via enhanced attack surface management and penetration testing solutions. What is proactive security?
The Last Watchdog
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Acohido to share his ideas about the current cyber threat landscape, the biggest threats for businesses today, the role of AI and machine learning in cyberattacks and cyberdefence, and the most effective methods for companies to protect themselves. Erin: What are some of the biggest cyber threats that businesses face today?
Malwarebytes
APRIL 27, 2022
Personal insurance plans are slowly becoming a more visible and talked about topic. I’m fascinated to see talk of personal cyber insurance , in an area dominated by business. The plans referenced in the article are for people seeking cyber insurance in India. A brave new world, or same-old same-old?
CyberSecurity Insiders
MARCH 25, 2021
Cyber Threats have increased on enterprise networks and all thanks to the latest trend of work from home that is being practiced by most of the firms operating across the globe to prevent the spread of Corona Virus. The post Work from home increases Cyber Threats on Enterprises appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.
SC Magazine
MAY 24, 2021
Overall, insurance companies seem to be responding to increased demand from clients for cyber-specific insurance, and one survey found that the two things most likely to spur a purchase of cyber insurance are when a business experiences a cyber attack and when they hear about other companies being hit by a cyber attack.
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
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.
CSO Magazine
JANUARY 24, 2023
Industry respondents also expressed concerns over identity theft at 4%, unavailable or unaffordable cyber insurance at 4%, geopolitical risks at 3%, DDoS attacks at 2% and website defacement at 0.9%, according to CSI’s annual survey of the financial sector.
SecureWorld News
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
Sometimes when you are down in the cyber attack trees defending your organization, it can be tough to see the cyber threat forest. Understanding how things are shifting in the forest, or overall threat landscape, can help us categorize, strategize, and prioritize our resources. What are the top cyber threats right now?
CyberSecurity Insiders
DECEMBER 11, 2021
NYSE: NET), the security, performance, and reliability company helping to build a better Internet, today announced it is partnering with leading cyber insurance companies to help businesses manage their risks online. As a result, some insurance companies have had to raise premiums to cover their costs.
Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing
JULY 21, 2022
The Ongoing Cyber Threat to Critical Infrastructure. With that in mind, Thales has launched the 2022 Thales Data Threat Report Critical Infrastructure Edition, which includes responses from 300 security leaders and practitioners within critical infrastructure organizations. Thu, 07/21/2022 - 12:28.
The Hacker News
JULY 21, 2022
Growing cyber threats, tightening regulatory demands and strict cyber insurance requirements are driving small to medium-sized enterprises demand for strategic cybersecurity and compliance guidance and management. Yet current vCISO services models still rely on manual
Centraleyes
MARCH 28, 2024
Coalition, a leader in cyber insurance, has added a positive endorsement for artificial intelligence (AI) to its cyber insurance plans for the US and Canada. Cyber insurance policies have traditionally focused on protecting against risks posed by human actors, such as hackers or insiders.
The Hacker News
OCTOBER 24, 2022
But vCISO services are
SecureWorld News
MARCH 28, 2024
The goal of these mandatory reporting requirements is to help the federal government rapidly deploy resources to cyberattack victims, analyze trends to spot emerging threats quicker, share actionable warnings with potential targets, and ultimately strengthen America's cybersecurity resilience and incident response capabilities.
SecureWorld News
DECEMBER 7, 2022
These algorithms will be able to learn and adapt to changing patterns in cyber threats, allowing them to detect and respond to attacks in real time. This will put even more pressure on businesses to find and hire the talent they need to protect themselves from cyber threats. Cyber insurance trends in 2023.
SecureWorld News
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
"The incidents involving Clorox and Johnson Controls highlight significant operational disruptions and financial losses due to cyber-related incidents," said Callie Guenther, Senior Manager of Cyber Threat Research at Critical Start.
Security Affairs
NOVEMBER 6, 2018
While developing the insurance program the two companies have scored more than 20 crypto exchanges and crypto wallets providers using both open-source information, available on exchanges’ websites and analytical capabilities of Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence (TI) system. The full list of platforms is available on CryptoIns website.
IT Security Guru
MAY 24, 2023
It helps to protect your organisation, workforce and clients from cyber-attacks. By doing this, you are reducing the chance of identity theft, data breaches, ransomware, and many other types of cyber threats. By doing this, you allow your team to have access to an efficient and inexpensive way of avoiding cyber threats.
CyberSecurity Insiders
APRIL 23, 2021
Microsoft Exchange Server Cyber Attack- Cyber Threat actors somehow infiltrated the email servers of Microsoft Exchange operating across the world through a vulnerability and accessed data of many government and private companies.
CyberSecurity Insiders
OCTOBER 24, 2022
The education sector is increasingly vulnerable to simple and sophisticated cyber threats, and higher learning is especially vulnerable. Cyber insurance. Often, educational institutions see cyber insurance as a needless expense. Until they need it. Conclusion.
Security Boulevard
JUNE 8, 2021
It’s important to remember, however, as we slowly transition back into some semblance of normality, that there will be new challenges to face in all facets of life, and the Cyber Security sector is no exception. The post Top Cyber Security Challenges Post Lockdown appeared first on Security Boulevard.
CyberSecurity Insiders
APRIL 19, 2021
Gareth Wharton, the CEO of Hiscox, said that cyber attacks are turning complex. He added that with risk management schemes, cyber insurance, threat monitoring solutions and with properly trained staff we can easily manage such cyber threats. But that does not mean that they are difficult to manage.
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. 24/7 monitoring of cyber threats. Related : Cyber threat hunting for SMBs: How MDR can help. Incident response.
Webroot
JUNE 2, 2022
The cyber threat landscape keeps evolving at lightning-speed. According to the latest 2022 BrightCloud® Threat Report , small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs) are particularly vulnerable to becoming a victim of a ransomware attack. Ransomware, malware and phishing threats keep evolving.
CyberSecurity Insiders
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
CFOs also should take part in simulations and training conducted by companies meant to evaluate their cyber security strengths and susceptibilities- as a part of the proactive security approach. So, as to understand the investment strategies, expenditure and risks involved in evading budget allotment to cyber incidents.
Malwarebytes
DECEMBER 15, 2022
Savings on cyber insurance : Cyber insurers want 24/7 detection and response in an environment. Cyber threat hunting for SMBs: How MDR can help. A cyber threat hunter talks about what he’s learned in his 16+ year cybersecurity career. How to choose an MDR vendor: 6 questions to ask.
SecureWorld News
JANUARY 21, 2024
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.
CyberSecurity Insiders
JANUARY 10, 2023
Cyber threats are also growing even more rapidly because of the economic downturn globally, so companies that invested heavily in security controls before the ‘boom’ and in costly incident response activities afterwards will need to increase investment in the preventive realm to justify cyber insurance.”.
SecureWorld News
MARCH 28, 2024
"Banks, and any financial company, are especially vulnerable to threats using AI because of the human nature of many financial transactions. Using AI, or deep fake technology, to trick individuals is ripe for vulnerabilities, making AI even more impactful for cyber threats and attacks."
CyberSecurity Insiders
JANUARY 6, 2023
2022 clearly demonstrated that attacks on data represent the greatest cyber-threat organizations face. Insurance Refusals and Rate Hikes. Many organizations remain unaware of the threat posed to their data by insecure storage and backup systems. But not insurance companies.
Security Boulevard
JULY 30, 2022
Given this fact, businesses should note the growing number of security issues and cyber threats. Will cyber insurance continue to be an option that organizations can rely on? Cybercriminals are always looking for new ways to steal from companies and individuals. Distortion hacks are becoming more common.
SecureWorld News
JULY 29, 2021
From his point of view, taking the training is about two things: the city's insurance policy and the city's constituents. While we are bound by the stipulations in our cyber insurance agreement, we also have a responsibility to protect the private information and data of citizens and companies that interact with the city.
SecureWorld News
AUGUST 23, 2023
Results of the study, conducted in partnership with research consultancy Censuswide, reveal that businesses are struggling to understand their cyber risks, with 66% of respondents indicating they have limited visibility and insight into their cyber risk profiles, hindering their ability to prioritize investments and allocate resources effectively.
SecureWorld News
MAY 5, 2023
Since City of Dallas' Information and Technology Services detected a cyber threat Wednesday morning, employees have been hard at work to contain the issue and ensure continued service to our residents," he said. The article quotes a statement from City Manager T.C. Broadnax, who said he is optimistic that the risk is contained.
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