SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

The State of Cybersecurity in Canada 2025 report, published by the Canadian Cybersecurity Network (CCN) and the Security Architecture Podcast , delivers an in-depth analysis of the evolving threat landscape, emerging risks, and strategic recommendations for Canadian organizations. Retail: Supply chain vulnerabilities contribute to $7.05

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SecureWorld News

MAY 1, 2024

Department of the Treasury's Federal Insurance Office (FIO) announced a major new initiative this week to improve the insurance industry's capabilities around modeling and underwriting terrorism and catastrophic cyber risks.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 17, 2025

Despite these setbacks, the company has stated that, with its cyber insurance coverage and ongoing remediation efforts, it doesn't expect a long-term material impact on its business fundamentals. This can help your organization establish a robust risk management program that keeps pace with your rapid digital change.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 23, 2025

Manufacturing: IP theft and ransomware are top risks; OT/ICS systems still lag in basic controls. These tasks can replace some of the more manual, repetitive tasks that security teams usually perform, however, security professionals are still needed to tune this automation and define policy based on risk tolerance. Jason Soroko , Sr.

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Javvad Malik

AUGUST 22, 2022

Lloyds of London has told its members to exclude nation state cyber attacks from insurance policies beginning in 2023, saying they pose unacceptable levels or risk. Hmm so where do we begin to unpack this one? Attribution is never easy, even in the best of times.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Cyberrisk is business risk. But how should we communicate this risk to the business, to clients, or to investors? Accenture annual report: risks we face from cyberattacks. However, we were most interested in seeing how Accenture articulated a particular business risk: the risk from a cyberattack.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

. “I believe this to be the next tectonic shift,” said Bryan Hurd, vice president at Aon Cyber Solutions. He referenced an insurer’s role in designing pressure relief valves for the steam engines powering Philadelphia in the 1800s: “They said if you wanted to have insurance, you have to have this piece of architecture on your system.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Cyber Insurance: US cyber insurance premiums soared by 50% in 2022, reaching $7.2 Cyber Skills Gap: By 2025, there could be 3.5 million unfilled cyber security jobs, showing a big need for skilled professionals. Market Size: The AI cyber security market was worth around $17.4 million per breach.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2021

Other cybersecurity news.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Erin: What are some of the most common social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use? How can companies minimize risks? Regular training and simulations can help reduce risks associated with human errors. Regular training and simulations can help reduce risks associated with human errors.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

Cybersecurity risks increase every year and bludgeon victims who fail to prepare properly. For those interested in a better understanding of the oncoming risks, this is the information you are looking for. It can feel like crossing a major highway while blindfolded. Many never see the catastrophe about to happen, until it occurs.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 22, 2022

Even with ransomware costing billions of dollars in losses and cyber insurance claims, organizations are still impacted beyond the checkbook. These attacks have driven the cost of cyber insurance premiums higher. Cyber insurance has become more critical to organizations to help offset the risk to the company.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Security experts have warned for years about the possibility of social engineering attacks with deepfakes, and the technology has matured enough for 2023 to see hackers successfully leverage it. Cyber insurance trends in 2023. Fostering workforce security education at all levels reduces risk.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 3, 2023

Manu Singh, vice president of risk engineering at Cowbell, said Cowbell 365 spans everything from working with policyholders to improve their overall cybersecurity posture management to responding to. The post Cowbell Adds Free Cybersecurity Services for Insurance Policy Holders appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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BH Consulting

MAY 28, 2025

Common ways of infiltrating victim organisations include social engineering against employees and stolen credentials. She urged companies to improve AI literacy at board level so they better understand the risks. Supply chain breaches are also becoming more frequent. In market economies, profit is prioritised over principle, she said.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The ongoing geopolitical storm brings not only classical cyberthreats for business, but also unpredictable risks and ‘black swans’ The main problem for 2023 will be supply-chain stability and cybersecurity. Yet, in addition to cyber insurance, companies will need a designated DR or RR (Rolling Recovery) plan.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Your level of prevention is determined by how much risk you accept to take on. There are two extremes to prevent cyberattacks: Overly permissive prevention and absolute prevention—and where you fall on that spectrum depends on the level of risk in your organization. Let’s start over at one end of the extreme. says Zamani.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Initial Access Broker (IAB) activity increased by 16% during the reporting period, heavily targeting US-based organizations due to perceived financial capability from cyber insurance. Ransomware attacks, in particular, pose a significant risk, though some sectors and regions are more vulnerable than others.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

The merits of MFA have been so widely accepted that governments recommend it, cyber insurance providers often require it, and companies like Microsoft and Google are now mandating MFA for a variety of login use cases. The rise of multi-factor authentication (MFA) has been good for security.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 24, 2022

CINCINNATI–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Great American Insurance Group recently launched EagleEye? According to Betty Shepherd, Divisional Senior Vice President, Great American Cyber Risk, EagleEye is a valuable loss prevention tool for insureds. We jumped at the opportunity to build a compelling solution for insureds.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2022

A company’s loss of control over its business practices may lead to various risks, which cybercrim­inals quickly exploit. However, deploying unproven artificial intelligence (AI) could result in unexpected outcomes, including a higher risk of cybercrime. Years ago, I called on several K12 school districts as a sales engineer.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 29, 2024

Staying Ahead of Adversarial AI with Incident Response Automation 5 min read · Just now -- A Security Engineering Commentary from industry insider Rohan Bafna , SecOps Engineer. Powered by WormGPT and FraudGPT, hackers and scammers will continue to drive the cost of business higher as organizations pay more for cyber insurance.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Together, they use native English speakers to execute sophisticated social engineering operations, contributing significantly to their newfound dominance. To counter these methods, organizations should prioritize educating users on phishing and social engineering techniques. compared to Q3 2023.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

It showed that financials are at significantly higher risk than the average UK business. percent) reporting between 40 and 60 cyber security incidents in the last 12 months. Businesses Many financials not only carry the burden of protecting their customers, but are also at risk of falling victim to cybercrime themselves.

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Adam Levin

AUGUST 26, 2019

Paige Thompson, the hacker accused of being responsible for the breach, is a former systems engineer for Amazon Web Services. ” And yet, Amazon is in the crosshairs of the House Oversight and Reform Committee and finding its proposed $10 billion contract with the Department of Defense at risk due to the fallout from the breach.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Based on the risk score, CryptoIns experts have calculated insurance rates for cryptocurrency exchange users who can now insure their accounts against cyber threats. It also takes into consideration the quality of the risk management systems, the availability of KYC/AML guidelines and independent ratings of the exchanges.

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Duo's Security Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Single sign-on (SSO) and multi-factor authentication (MFA) are now required for most compliance programs and cyber insurance policies, and the Cisco Duo secure access solution is a go-to for adding these critical security capabilities to modern SaaS applications that natively support SSO protocols (e.g., SAML , OIDC ).

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 14, 2025

The risk is further heightened by the wide range of tactics and techniques these groups employ, complicating defense efforts against potential attacks. Even if many groups carry out only a few attacks, their growing numbers amplify the overall risk.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 5, 2023

Broadnax, who said he is optimistic that the risk is contained. 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. Here's the Dallas Morning News' report on the incident.

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Daniel Miessler

MARCH 20, 2022

I think security will live within engineering in the future, much like building “secure” bridges isn’t a separate department within civil engineering. Essentially the business will see what the risk tolerance is for all these items, and that’s what the Ops team will monitor in their dashboards.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

From there, these tools send alerts to security teams if and when risks are identified. Examples of threatening traffic that IDPS solutions can combat include network intrusions, DDoS attacks, malware, and socially engineered attacks.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

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. Related : Cyber threat hunting for SMBs: How MDR can help. Also delivered free of charge by the NCATS team.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2022

Hackers and cyber criminals also read the news. Many hacker groups will even approach social engineering to see if anyone in IT or SecOps knows if any layoffs are coming. That $3.29, even with cyber insurance, is still a significant hit to the organization’s bottom line. Updating the composite risk scoring.

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NopSec

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Over the past two decades, Lisa has advised Fortune 500 enterprises on data security, privacy and technology risk management, and led many diverse teams at Ally Financial (GMAC), KPMG, and Blue Cross Blue Shield. Lisa and Tunde touch on how vulnerability management can affect cyber insurance.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 16, 2023

Mike Parkin, Senior Technical Engineer at Vulcan Cyber, a provider of SaaS for enterprise cyber risk remediation, is a fan of the collaborative. Given that they share many of the same challenges, face the same risks, and have to deal with the same issues, it makes perfect sense. He says: "I love this idea!

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Americans’ personal information, stolen en masse by state-backed actors and online gangs alike, is being weaponized via increasingly sophisticated social engineering or disinformation campaigns. Criminals and extremists similarly can threaten unprecedented levels of disruption and coercion. Secret Service Assistant Director Jeremy Sheridan.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 23, 2023

For a solid rundown of what the updates mean, check out this SecureWorld article from Kip Boyle , vCISO, Cyber Risk Opportunities LLC. particularly the greater emphasis on governance and cybersecurity risk management and the implementation examples provided at the subcategory level. 19, Detroit on Sept. and all over the world.

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