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Report: Cyber Insurance Not Driving Ransomware Market

SecureWorld News

One aspect of these cyberattacks that has been hotly debated is the role that cybersecurity insurance plays in these incidents. To better understand the relationship between insurance and ransomware, U.K.-based This widely-held belief has fueled debates in policy-making circles and cybersecurity discussions.

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Cyber Insurance: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

IT Security Guru

The past decade has seen cybersecurity barge its way into the mainstream. A meteoric rise in attack rates during COVID-19 , major incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline attack, and an increasingly tense geopolitical landscape have all contributed to cybersecurity’s current position at the top of global news feeds. It didn’t take off.

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Checklist for Getting Cyber Insurance Coverage

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Checklist for Getting Cyber Insurance Coverage. As cyber criminals mature and advance their tactics, small and medium businesses become the most vulnerable because they lack the capacity – staff, technology, budget - to build strong cyber defenses. The necessity for cyber-insurance coverage.

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Highlights from the New U.S. Cybersecurity Strategy

Krebs on Security

The Biden administration today issued its vision for beefing up the nation’s collective cybersecurity posture, including calls for legislation establishing liability for software products and services that are sold with little regard for security. based semiconductor manufacturing and research and to make the U.S.

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As market for cyber insurance booms, watchdog calls for better data

SC Magazine

In a report released May 20, the Government Accountability Office looked at how the private cybersecurity insurance market has developed over the past five yearsRich Baich is global chief information security officer for insurance giant AIG. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images).

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Rich threat intel, specialized graph database fuel HYAS’ Protective DNS

The Last Watchdog

The NSA’s Memorandum on Improving Cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure Control Systems and subsequent CISA Shields Up initiative highlighted the necessity of such solutions. Additionally, cyber insurance carriers and the Department of Defense’s CMMC standard now recommend or require advanced protective DNS solutions.

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HardBit ransomware tailors ransom to fit your cyber insurance payout

Malwarebytes

Ransomware authors are wading into the cybersecurity insurance debate in a somewhat peculiar way. Specifically: urging victims to disclose details of their insurance contract , in order to tailor a ransom which will be beneficial to the company under attack. has been in circulation since sometime around November last year.