Digital Shadows

DECEMBER 5, 2024

By contrast, the finance and insurance; professional, scientific, and technical services (PSTS); and retail trade sectors accounted for 8% each. Issues can arise from contractors working outside typical security protocols or remote employees bypassing standard firewall rules.

Cybersecurity

Centraleyes

MARCH 13, 2025

Case in Point : In 2019, First American Title Insurance Company experienced a significant data exposure incident, revealing sensitive customer documents due to a vulnerability in their document-sharing application. Endpoint Security: Utilize firewalls, antivirus software, and intrusion detection systems to prevent unauthorized access.

Cybersecurity

SecureWorld News

JULY 1, 2025

UnitedHealth now estimates that the February 2024 breach of its Change Healthcare subsidiary compromised data for 190 million Americans , delaying prescriptions and disrupting insurance billing nationwide. People remain the firewall of last resort. Even near misses erode institutional legitimacy and public trust.

Social Engineering

NetSpi Executives

JULY 28, 2025

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) is specific to healthcare organizations and sets strict guidelines on safeguarding medical information. Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) applies to any organization handling payment card information. It ensures the privacy and security of health-related data.

Penetration Testing

Duo's Security Blog

MARCH 31, 2025

exploitable vulnerabilities exist across many components of IT infrastructures including, but not limited to, servers, desktops, mobile device operating systems, web software, and firewalls (p. The Department also specifically updated the Security Role to define vulnerability, identifying that: .exploitable

Healthcare

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. To enhance security, organizations should block direct internet access to RDP services using firewalls and restrict access to internal networks and VPNs.

Cyber Attacks

Security Through Education

JULY 7, 2025

Even in today’s digitally interconnected world, the front line of information security isn’t always a firewall or an encryption protocol. Customer-facing employees interact with people constantly—whether they work in insurance, IT, healthcare, or finance. More often it’s a person!

Social Engineering

Security Boulevard

MARCH 20, 2025

Traditional security models rooted in firewalls and VPNs cannot keep up with the speed and sophistication of AI-powered threats. a high level, as organizations integrate more AI into their workflows, they must also rethink security strategies to account for new vulnerabilities, expanded attack surfaces, and AI-assisted attacks.

Social Engineering

SecureWorld News

MARCH 5, 2025

The domains of cybersecurity, cybercrime investigations, and cyber insurance will all be impacted. While many cybersecurity companies operate on a SaaS model, a significant number still rely on on-premises hardware like firewalls, switches, routers, and SD-WAN devices. The new 25% U.S. Here is his detailed breakdown: 1.Cross-border

Cyber Risk

Centraleyes

MAY 8, 2025

Companies must invest in: Advanced Firewalls and Network Security: Ranging from $5,000 to $20,000. These small decisions can impact transaction fees, cybersecurity insurance premiums, and overall risk exposure, making them worth evaluating from a long-term cost perspective. has spurred a demand for advanced technological solutions.

Penetration Testing

The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2023

New York, NY, July 27, 2023 – QBE North America today announced the launch of a cyber insurance program with new MGA, Converge, acting as program administrator. Tom Kang, CEO, Converge, added, “We’re thrilled to partner with QBE North America given their experience and reputation in the cyber insurance market.

Cyber Insurance

CSO Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

I recently had to renew the cyber insurance policy for the office and it was interesting to see the evolution of questions asked over the years. At first, most of the cyber insurance questions involved basic computer security and merely checked to see if we had firewalls and antivirus and not much else.

Cyber Insurance

SC Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

Insurance firm CNA Financial, a prominent provider of cyber insurance, confirmed a cyberattack against its systems, which has some concerned that cybercriminals may target policyholders. For example, messaging might now include ‘We know that you use xyz firewall, and we know how to break it,’” he said. “I

Cyber Insurance

Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 25, 2022

For as long as organizations have existed to grow crops, move goods or produce items there have been insurance firms to help these markets survive cyclical events. Unsurprisingly, we are seeing more and more MFA requirements in cyber liability insurance policies as it has such a significant impact in reducing the chance of financial loss.

Insurance

eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2024

A firewall policy is a set of rules and standards designed to control network traffic between an organization’s internal network and the internet. Featured Partners: Next-Gen Firewall (NGFW) Software Learn more Table of Contents Toggle Free Firewall Policy Template What Are the Components of Firewall Policies?

Firewall

Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

One area where campuses have been collaborating recently are changes around cyber liability insurance for higher education, an opportunity for campus cybersecurity teams to combine forces with their risk management team. In a recent Duo blog post, we gave an overview of cyber liability insurance.

Insurance

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2022

is perhaps better known as the online identity verification service that many states now use to help staunch the loss of billions of dollars in unemployment insurance and pandemic assistance stolen each year by identity thieves. These days, ID.me may require a recorded, live video chat with the person applying for benefits. Hall said ID.me

Mobile

Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

With the rate that new threats emerge, it may come as no surprise that cyber liability insurance can be traced back to 1997. In its modern iteration, cyber liability insurance mitigates the losses and business costs associated with cyber incidents and resulting downtime. What would an insurer do? At least not alone.

Cyber Insurance

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

“Our Litigation Firewall isolates the infection and protects you from harm. The Blacklist Alliance researches TCPA cases to uncover the phone numbers of plaintiffs and sells this data in the form of list-scrubbing services to telemarketers. “TCPA predators operate like malware,” The Blacklist explains on its website.

Mobile

Security Boulevard

MARCH 18, 2021

Like many industries, the banking and insurance sectors have shifted their resources to be digital-first, all the more so since the start of the global pandemic. The post Web Application Firewalls Instrumental in Digital-First Banking appeared first on Blog.

Firewall

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. That’s a tiny share of the estimated tens of billions of dollars in jobless benefits states have given to identity thieves in the past year.

Scams

Krebs on Security

JULY 30, 2019

consumers, and roughly 1 million Social Insurance Numbers (SINs) for Canadian credit card customers. “She allegedly used web application firewall credentials to obtain privilege escalation. Capital One said the incident affected approximately 100 million people in the United States and six million in Canada.

Data breaches

Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

The Livingston firewall rapidly became replaced with Checkpoint running on Windows NT server, (Stop laughing, I actually set one up once). Cisco came to market with the PIX firewall, Netscreen came to market with the ASIC based firewall, and suddenly, security had a voice. What Is Not Covered Under Cyber Insurance?

Cyber Insurance

CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

The Annual Cyber Security Breaches Survey conducted by DCMS states that remote working is paving way to heightening cyber risks as employees are not aware of the threats lurking behind their corporate firewalls and thus are committing the mistake of practicing poor cyber hygiene while interacting with apps and data related to their company/s.

Cyber threats

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 1, 2019

Enterprises have dumped small fortunes into stocking their SOCs (security operations centers) with the best firewalls, anti-malware suites, intrusion detection, data loss prevention and sandbox detonators money can buy. Related: Why we’re in the Golden Age of cyber espionage. But this hasn’t done the trick.

Threat Detection

The Last Watchdog

MAY 10, 2021

Back in the mid-1990s, big banks and insurance companies came up with something called “bespoke assessments” as the approach for assessing third party vendor risk. No one, save threat actors, was paying close attention to the ramifications of granting a myriad of small- and mid-sized contractors privileged access inside the company firewall.

Risk

Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

The directive applies to any networking devices — such as firewalls, routers and load balancers — that allow remote authentication or administration. TechCrunch has been tracking the fallout from victim organizations , which range from banks and insurance providers to universities and healthcare entities.

Risk

Security Affairs

JUNE 14, 2024

In January 2025, European financial and insurance institutions, their business partners and providers, must comply with DORA. In January 2025, financial and insurance institutions in Europe and any organizations that do business with them must comply with the Digital Operation Resilience Act, also known as DORA.

Insurance

Webroot

JANUARY 4, 2023

But the protection doesn’t stop there; additional benefits include: Device protection: Real-time anti-phishing, malware, and ransomware protection against emerging threats Lightning-fast threat scans without interruption Proactive alerts with firewall and network connection monitoring Cleans devices and improves performance.

Identity Theft

eSecurity Planet

MARCH 17, 2023

Penetration Testing Product Guides 9 Best Penetration Testing Tools 10 Top Open Source Penetration Testing Tools Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Next-generation firewalls (NGFWs) move beyond the traditional perimeter of a network to provide protections at the application layer of the TCP/IP stack.

Network Security

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Fidelity National Financial (FNF), one of the largest title insurance providers in the United States, announced on November 21 that it fell victim to a sophisticated cyberattack. Disruptions to real estate transactions: Cyberattacks can disrupt real estate transactions, causing delays, cancellations, and title insurance claims.

Cyber Attacks

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Browser Guard adds an extra layer to your personal security, on top of your antivirus or firewall. It’s the world’s first browser extension to do this, while at the same time identifying and stopping tech support scams.

Identity Theft

The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 22, 2019

A couple of decades ago, when everything was on the company premises, sitting behind a firewall, security teams at least had a fighting chance to stay on top of things. Security researchers at firewall vendor Imperva recently found that 75% of deployed Redis servers show signs of malware infection.

Digital transformation

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

According to the CISA’s report , Iranian hackers from an unnamed APT group are employing several known web shells, in attacks on IT, government, healthcare, financial, and insurance organizations across the United States. The malware used by the threat actors includes the ChunkyTuna, Tiny, and China Chopper web shells.

VPN

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Eventually, governments will address the risk by beefing up security and purchasing cyber insurance, which go hand in glove. Bandura Cyber complements existing firewalls and intrusion detection and prevention systems. Ransomware attacks against local government entities at some point will run its course.

Ransomware

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Head Mare hacktivist group targets Russia and Belarus Zyxel fixed critical OS command injection flaw in multiple routers VMware fixed a code execution flaw in Fusion hypervisor U.S.

Data breaches

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 17, 2023

This can include measures such as firewalls , antivirus, access management and data backup policies, etc. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) HIPAA is a U.S. It applies to healthcare providers, insurance companies, and other organizations that handle PHI.

Cybersecurity