KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

This data makes it clear that security awareness training designed to educate users on the need to be continually vigilant, regardless of the device, is critical to an organization remaining protected against attacks. I've written quite a few times about specific cyber insurance claim cases that required going to court to settle.

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Phishing Security awareness Insurance Cybersecurity 105

KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

link] [Head Scratcher] More Companies With Cyber Insurance Are Hit by Ransomware Than Those Without? In an interesting twist, new data hints that organizations with cyber insurance may be relying on it too much, instead of shoring up security to ensure attacks never succeed. Date/Time: Wednesday, May 3, @ 2:00 PM (ET) Save My Spot!

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2023

We offer a variety of resources to help understand and mitigate threats, from training courses and consultancy services to free guides. MCNA Insurance MCNA Insurance, also known as MCNA Dental, was caught up in a cyber hacking incident last week, in which 112 covered entities were affected.

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Data breaches Insurance Personal data Ransomware 118

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

As a result, the personal data of 244,850 patients was compromised – which likely includes patients’ names and numbers, but protected health information such as dates of birth and health insurance numbers might also be affected. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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Phishing Retail Data breaches Insurance 115

KnowBe4

MAY 16, 2023

[link] Munich Re: '3X Growth Estimated in Cyber Crime Costs Over the Next 4 Years' As cyber attacks continue to grow in sophistication and frequency, cyber insurers are expecting their market to double in the next two years. I've spent a lot of time here educating you on attack specifics, industry trends, and the impacts felt by attacks.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 7, 2018

The next three most successful scams also came from these categories: an email claiming the recipient could claim medical insurance (39.2%), an email purportedly from an accountants claiming a complaint had been filed against the recipient (34.2%) and a message about an apparent Ebola outbreak (27.9%).

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Phishing Insurance Education Compliance 75

IT Governance

JANUARY 11, 2018

Neil Hare-Brown of Cyber|Decider said that, in the last few months, he had investigated incidents at six private schools where insurance claims had been filed. Those parents who question the changes by replying to the email are actually replying to the cyber criminals, who of course reassure them that the changes are legitimate.

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Phishing Insurance Education Personal data 58

IT Governance

JULY 5, 2022

It added: “We are working with local law enforcement, GEMA, GBI, and insurance officials to recover the funds. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. This cyber-attack resulted in funds being stolen from the school system by an outside source.”.

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Phishing e-Delivery Retail Insurance 115

IT Governance

MARCH 14, 2018

The gaming and public-sector industries were mostly affected by targeted attacks, whereas the insurance and telecom industries mostly suffered opportunistic attacks. Email is used organisation-wide and, with targeted attacks a growing concern, it is essential that organisations build awareness and educate their employees.

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Phishing Education Insurance Manufacturing 50

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Of the businesses surveyed, those in the finance and insurance industries had the highest levels of awareness (79%), followed by information and communications (67%) and education (52%). It is important to remember that a key component of any organisation’s GDPR compliance framework is staff awareness and education.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The finance and insurance (79%), information or communications (67%) and education (52%) sectors have the highest awareness of the GDPR. The finance and insurance sector is also the most likely to have put in place measures to comply with the GDPR, with 54% having done so.

GDPR 50

GDPR Compliance Insurance Personal data 50

ARMA International

APRIL 28, 2022

The plan was to meet the insurance coordinator at the Howard Avenue office at 8:30 a.m. I knew from previous education and training that documenting damage before moving or addressing anything was critical. I was aware that I would need documentation on damage and losses for insurance and internal purposes.

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Records Management Archiving Insurance Communications 97

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Cybersecurity training : Educates employees regarding basic best practices to recognize attacks, avoid scams, and protect against breaches or data loss. Additional security layers implement effective controls and assure data confidentiality by adding additional insurance against breaches, zero day vulnerabilities, or tool failure.

Security 112

Security Cloud Cybersecurity Access 112

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

APRIL 4, 2018

Customer Events could include planning a vacation, buying a house, or purchasing insurance. See the blog “ Big Data MBA: Course 101A – Unit III ” for a quick refresher on Michael Porter Value Chain Analysis process. Brainstorm and capture the customer’s “ Impediments to Success.

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Digital transformation Big data Marketing Artificial Intelligence 98

IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

“The increase in nation-state attacks and major incidents overall continues to apply pressure to drive visibility of an organization’s security program by boards, corporate executives and cyber insurers,” Dudley said. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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Phishing Passwords Ransomware Insurance 107

eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Craig Ball once made a great point in responding to a post of mine about educating lawyers when he said “ We not only need to persuade lawyers to take the plunge, we need to insure there’s a pool for them to jump into. Do they go to a community night course on computers? Pursue online education? Pursue online education?

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e-Discovery Computer and Electronics Education Mining 47

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Of course, success at that level is exceptionally rare, but my point is that in this industry more than any other I can think of, we can create amazing things from very humble beginnings. Lesson 3: Invest in Financial Literacy I regret many things about my own education at school and university.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 25, 2019

Most of my career has been spent evangelizing the power of technology to positively transform business, education, and politics. Our current political and economic culture is, of course, a direct descendant of this living document. Of course, we actively ignore them – who on earth would ever read them?

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Government IT Marketing ROT 92

IT Governance

JUNE 7, 2024

Of course, the UK government advises against paying ransoms, but doesn’t legally enforce this, unlike some other countries. That’s why forensic investigation is so important: figure out what happened, what vulnerabilities you need to fix, where staff education is lacking, and so on. What’s your personal advice on paying ransoms?

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Ransomware Encryption Data breaches Access 98

John Battelle's Searchblog

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

A loan to better yourself through education? Over thousands of years we’ve designed systems to insure that our most important societal decisions can be queried and audited for fairness, that they are defensible against some shared logic, that they will benefit society at large. What changes on the ground?

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Government Marketing Education IT 81

eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Martin granted the motion of the defendants/counter plaintiffs (defendants) to compel the plaintiff/counter-defendant (plaintiff) to produce all responsive documents in the form in which they are maintained in the usual course of business (i.e., Case Background. Judge’s Ruling. So, what do you think?

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Metadata e-Discovery Insurance Education 43

eDiscovery Daily

APRIL 7, 2019

Of course, as you probably know by reading this blog, the DLA Piper situation isn’t unique. eDiscovery Daily is made available by CloudNine solely for educational purposes to provide general information about general eDiscovery principles and not to provide specific legal advice applicable to any particular circumstance.

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Data breaches Cybersecurity e-Discovery Computer and Electronics 57

Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

You can probably see where this is going, but rather than suggesting that automation is a key part of the solution to cert renewal, they instead suggest solutions "that scale to Enterprise level" from CAs such as Comodo who, of course, are pushing EV. No, of course not, but that's the foundation that the mechanics of EV is built on!

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Marketing Phishing Encryption IT 109

Information Governance Perspectives

MAY 10, 2020

I just want to point out that privacy, conceptually, is, of course, ancient really. This is about everybody being on the same page and it’s where a number of these subsequent steps and processes flow from, like the education you’re going to provide, the communications, and so forth. These days it’s really a strategic imperative.

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Compliance Information governance Privacy Data Privacy 52

John Battelle's Searchblog

AUGUST 7, 2024

A loan to better yourself through education? Over thousands of years we’ve designed systems to insure that our most important societal decisions can be queried and audited for fairness, that they are defensible against some shared logic, that they will benefit society at large. What changes on the ground?

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Government Marketing Education Insurance 59

IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2019

The GDPR considers personal data to be anything that identifies, or can be used to identify, a living person, such as your name, National Insurance number or email address (personal or work). This will typically cover public authorities such as schools and other educational institutions, government departments, hospitals and the police.

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GDPR Compliance Personal data Data breaches 78

Positively RIM

FEBRUARY 12, 2015

Of course records management through IG plays a major role here. F For example, why do my dental and vision insurance work off my social security number? One, of course, is education/change management. Applying a retention schedule and legal holds to Big Data is the antidote to mega-storage and legal risk.

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Big data Information governance Government Risk 40

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 6, 2023

Education, government, energy and manufacturing are others. Similarly, the education sector has also become a soft target for ransomware. If you have a cyber insurer , they will have their own processes for responding to any cyber attack. There are, however, some industries at higher risk than others.

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Ransomware Encryption Cybersecurity Risk 97

Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Of course, as new rights like this are created, the Bill will ensure that they cannot be taken too far. A lot of education work needs to be done. What substantial help could be planned and what education offered? We have to help educators, parents and people supporting children, not use the long arm of the law.

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GDPR Personal data Government IT 120

eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 10, 2019

In response to the hack, the attorneys general from Arizona, Arkansas, Florida, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina and Wisconsin have jointly filed a cross-state lawsuit alleging multiple violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). So, what do you think?

Data breaches 41

Data breaches Cybersecurity Computer and Electronics Insurance 41

eDiscovery Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In this case involving a bad faith claim against the plaintiff’s insurance company for its handling of her claim under her uninsured motorist benefits, the defendant took a recorded statement from the plaintiff in the course of its investigation but lost it. Case Background.

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Insurance Education IT Access 43

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Breached records: more than 56 million.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

eDiscovery Daily

AUGUST 29, 2018

Of course, even the exemplar protocol isn’t perfect – it doesn’t address privilege and confidentiality concerns or forms of production, for example. Toward the end of the post, Craig then provides an “Exemplar Acquisition Protocol”, adapted from the court’s order in Xpel Techs. Filter Film Distribs., 2008 WL 744837 (W.D. 17, 2008).

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e-Discovery Computer and Electronics Insurance Education 37

eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Instead, apply defense in depth, provide employee cybersecurity training , and use threat intelligence platforms to provide general protection and educate both non-technical and security teams about the latest threats. No specific tool exists to defend specifically against nation state attacks, ransomware gangs, or hacktivists.

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Cybersecurity Ransomware Passwords Cloud 108

Reltio

JUNE 20, 2019

I was educated in computer engineering but my first job was on the business side. Also of course deployment in the cloud is the thing in modern data management – we will stop running all of this on our own iron and get it from someone else. Then one day we had a trip to a larger college that actually had computers and I was hooked!

MDM 49

MDM Manufacturing Computer and Electronics Digital transformation 49

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

APRIL 4, 2018

Customer Events could include planning a vacation, buying a house, or purchasing insurance. See the blog “ Big Data MBA: Course 101A – Unit III ” for a quick refresher on Michael Porter Value Chain Analysis process. Brainstorm and capture the customer’s “ Impediments to Success.

Digital transformation 40

Digital transformation Big data Marketing Artificial Intelligence 40

KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

This fact alone clearly puts the complete prevention of ransomware attacks as the highest priority (with detection, response, and remediation still remaining important, of course). So, if you're going to attempt to stop ransomware attacks, you must have a preventative strategy that aligns with the ways these attacks start.

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