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RSAC Fireside Chat: Operationalizing diverse security to assure customers, partners–and insurers

The Last Watchdog

Related: Getting the most from cyber insurance At RSAC 2025, I met with ESET Chief Security Evangelist Tony Anscombe to trace a quiet but growing convergence: endpoint defense, cyber insurance, and monoculture risk are no longer separate concerns. Cyber insurers want it. MSSPs need it.

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

IT Security Guru

Enter cyber insurance. We insure almost everything – our homes, our cars, even our lives. At first glance, it seems odd that most businesses don’t insure against something as potentially devastating as cybercrime. Cybersecurity professionals remain divided as to the future of cyber insurance.

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

SC Magazine

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.

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RSAC Fireside Chat: Human and machine identity risks are converging — and they’re finally visible

The Last Watchdog

Its telemetry engine is helping early adopters shrink the blast radius of service account abuse and meet tighter requirements now being pushed by regulators and cyber insurers alike. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. (LW

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HardBit ransomware tailors ransom to fit your cyber insurance payout

Malwarebytes

Here, they’re going out of their way to “help” by quizzing victims about the specifics of their cyber insurance policy. The note explains at length that their final ransom demand will be adjusted to ensure it falls inside of the insurance claim requirements. In its place is a long, rambling ransom note.