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Why DSPM is Essential for Achieving Data Privacy in 2024

Security Affairs

Looking back at the definition of the GigaOm Radar report, DSPM allows organizations to seek answers to the most pressing questions of security and privacy teams: What sensitive data do we have? Where is it located? DSPM also provides visibility of security and privacy posture, alerting potential gaps.

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Cyber Insurers Pull Back Amid Increase in Cyber Attacks, Costs

eSecurity Planet

The explosion of ransomware and similar cyber incidents along with rising associated costs is convincing a growing number of insurance companies to raise the premiums on their cyber insurance policies or reduce coverage, moves that could further squeeze organizations under siege from hackers. Insurers Assessing Risks.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 453 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4 Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Will Your Cyber-Insurance Premiums Protect You in Times of War?

Dark Reading

Multiple cyber-insurance carriers have adopted act-of-war exclusions due to global political instability and are seeking to stretch the definition of war to deny coverage.

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Vermont Enacts Insurance Data Security Law

Hunton Privacy

515 , making Vermont the twenty-first state to enact legislation based on the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Insurance Data Security Model Law (“MDL-668”). On May 27, 2022, Vermont Governor Phil Scott signed H.515

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Have board directors any liability for a cyberattack against their company?

Security Affairs

Add to that, there is the risk of penalties and fines (which are not insurable in most jurisdictions) not only under privacy and data protection regulations but also on the basis of cybersecurity regulations that are now proliferating. Beyond the regulatory reporting requirements, reporting a cyberattack to the public is definitely tricky.

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Hackers Breached Virginia Bank Twice in Eight Months, Stole $2.4M

Krebs on Security

Now the financial institution is suing its insurance provider for refusing to fully cover the losses. In its lawsuit (PDF), National Bank says it had an insurance policy with Everest National Insurance Company for two types of coverage or “riders” to protect it against cybercrime losses. million total. THE LAWSUIT.

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