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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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Everyone in the cyber insurance industry or trying to get cyber insurance today knows that using multifactor authentication (MFA) is an absolute make-or-break requirement for getting a cyber insurance policy; or if you can get a policy without MFA, you will pay a hefty increased premium for the same amount of coverage.

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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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Jane Frankland

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It’s where attackers work search engine rankings or paid social media content by employing deceptive techniques such as keyword stuffing, hidden text, link farms, or other unethical practices to drive traffic to their websites and gain undeserved visibility in search engine results. The first is by rule making.

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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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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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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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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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Centraleyes

MAY 6, 2024

The insurance industry is no exception. The insurance industry is built on handling our own and everyone else’s risks. As artificial intelligence shatters glass ceilings, the risks it introduces present a new paradigm to the insurance market in many different areas. trillion to $4.4

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NetSpi Executives

APRIL 27, 2024

Ransomware, a definition Ransomware is a set of malware technologies, hacking techniques, and social engineering tactics that cybercriminals use to cause harm, breach data, and render data unusable. Ransomware attackers get into a network in many ways: Social engineering. Should I get a ransomware cyber insurance policy?

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2021

Other cybersecurity news.

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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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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 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

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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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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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Target the human, swipe the cash: Verizon DBIR 2023 highlights crime trends Manage the human risk and mind your money: those are two key takeaways from Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report. Half of all social engineering attacks involve ‘pretexting’, where criminals fabricate a story to trick the victim.

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Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

While the risk of an employee clicking on a foreign prince’s secret gold offer may be past us, modern-day technologies have evolved and expanded in today’s remote work and IoT-connected settings. Don’t worry though, there's already an insurance policy for that. What is Cyber Liability Insurance?

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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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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As demand for cyber risk insurance increases, two recent developments could have policyholders scrambling to check their cover. In the United States, a judge dismissed a claim against an insurance company that refused to pay extra for losses due to business email compromise. And the cyber insurance market keeps growing.

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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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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 21, 2022

Reducing the risk of attacks such as ransomware and malware on CNI will be of paramount importance to the stability of nation states for years to come. For many organizations, paying the ransom can be less damaging than risking any additional impacts. The Threat of Ransomware.

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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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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Double extortion introduces catastrophic risks of data breach and loss of customer trust if sensitive information gets leaked publicly. With the high stakes, many victims decide the potential reputational harm and liability from data exposure is too great a risk and opt to pay extortion ransoms. Stress reporting suspicious activity.

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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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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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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

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Increased risk of cyberattacks The rising cost of living can lead to an increase in cybercrime, as people become more desperate to make money. Organizations need to be aware of the risks and take steps to protect themselves, even if it means increasing their cybersecurity spending. Many are facing multifaceted challenges.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 28, 2023

Features Multiple enforcement methods (RADIUS, TACACS, SNMP) supported as well as the OnConnect proprietary non-RADIUS enforcement User database options for Active Directory, LDAP, and SQL Device fingerprinting and comprehensive posture assessment identifies type and model name, MAC address, IP address, network interface card vendor, operating system (..)

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