Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“Sources said the county is in the process of paying the $500,000 ransom as it’s insured for such attacks.” We commenced an immediate investigation that included taking certain systems offline and working with computer forensic specialists to determine the nature and scope of the event.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 15, 2020

That’s why they organisations increasingly relying on cyber insurance policies to cover the costs when data breaches and cyber attacks occur. But just how helpful is cyber insurance? What is cyber insurance? How does cyber insurance work? What does a cyber insurance policy cover? Who needs cyber insurance?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2024

In some cases, attackers are even leveraging the threat of regulatory actions or causing cyber insurance policies to be rendered moot by reporting lapses in security on the part of the victim to regulators and insurers. Downtime and lost productivity during the event and recovery period can severely impact business operations.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Treasury Department is seeking public comment on the need and scope for a potential federal insurance response to catastrophic cyber incidents, akin to the one put in place for terrorism insurance after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The request, published by the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) in the U.S. Background.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

It’s easy to think of it as a problem the federal government must address or something that enterprises deal with, but cybersecurity has to be addressed closer to home, as well. His company supplies a co-managed SIEM service to mid-sized and large enterprises, including local government agencies. I spoke to A.N. Election threat.

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IT Governance

JULY 30, 2024

According to Parametrix , an insurance company specialising in Cloud outages, cyber insurance policies likely cover up to 10–20% of losses only. To find out more about what we can learn from the event, and protect ourselves from ‘Strike 2’, we talked to our information security manager, Adam Seamons. Then there’s insurance.

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erwin

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Will the new creative, diverse and scalable data pipelines you are building also incorporate the AI governance guardrails needed to manage and limit your organizational risk? Maybe your AI model monitors sales data, and the data is spiking for one region of the country due to a world event. Lets give a for instance.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2024

.” Dark Angels is thought to be a Russia-based cybercrime syndicate whose distinguishing characteristic is stealing truly staggering amounts of data from major companies across multiple sectors, including healthcare, finance, government and education. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on February 21, 2024.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 14, 2019

On December 19, 2018, Ohio adopted the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (NAIC) Insurance Data Security Model Law. The Act is designed to “establish standards for data security and for the investigation and notification to the Superintendent of Insurance of a cybersecurity event.”.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

2 announcing a Cyber Insurance Risk Framework (the Framework) that describes industry best practices for New York-regulated property/casualty insurers. According to NYDFS, the incorporation of these practices should be proportionate to each insurer’s size, resources, geographic distribution, and other factors. The Framework.

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Insurance Financial Services Cybersecurity Risk 79

Krebs on Security

JULY 4, 2020

But KrebsOnSecurity recently discovered that this is not the case with all federal government sites built to help you manage your identity online. The site didn’t explain why it was asking me to do this, but I assumed it would prompt me for the answers in the event that I later chose to unlock my SSN within E-Verify.

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Passwords Authentication Insurance Mining 341

AIIM

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Back in 2017, I called up a few of the information governance friends I’d made through the AIIM Community to better understand the challenges they were up against. Four years later, we're finally seeing this shift in governance mindsets in nearly every AIIM member organization we speak with. Hurdles to Information Governance Success.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 1, 2023

That ground-shaking event divided the world with excitement and trepidation about a future with thinking machines. In this first of two posts, I investigate the anatomy of artificial intelligence and its impact on insurance. It offers customers and the insurer’s system to interact in a human-like manner.

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Data Matters

JUNE 23, 2022

Kentucky and Maryland recently continued the trend of state insurance departments adopting some version of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ (“NAIC”) Insurance Data Security Model Law. Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signed House Bill 474 into law, and Maryland Governor Larry Hogan signed SB 207.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

As reported on the Hunton Insurance Recovery blog , on February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), which regulates the business of insurance in New York, has issued guidelines, in the Insurance Circular Letter No. sought coverage for expenses under its property insurance policy.

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Insurance Cybersecurity Risk Education 70

Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

(“Carnival”), the world’s largest cruise-ship operator, for violations of the Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR Part 500) in connection with four cybersecurity events between 2019 and 2021, including two ransomware events. . NYDFS also found that Carnival had failed to implement basic protocols to prevent data breaches.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Organisations such as IT Governance that offer cyber security as a service assign dedicated experts to oversee the organisation’s data protection and data privacy needs. You’ll receive cyber insurance cover ?. Many cyber-security-as-a-service offerings include cyber insurance as part of the package. Get started.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 4, 2022

How Cybersecurity Insurance Can Work To Help An Organization. In the last 20+ years, cybersecurity insurance has added risk transference to the available palette of palliative choices. I recently spoke with Neira Jones and Danna Bethlehem about how cybersecurity insurance can work to help an organization. regulations.

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Insurance Cybersecurity Ransomware Cleanup 71

Collibra

MARCH 26, 2025

As a business leader, and New Yorker, Im often booked from one networking event to the next. And the truth is, these events are one of my favorite parts about my joband city! At Collibra, we know our customers have the same experience when interacting with each other at our events. What are Data Citizens User Groups?

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

For over 10 years now, AIIM's Leadership Council (LC) summit series has been the go-to event where the forward-thinking professionals in information management gather to delve into matters impacting the future of the industry. The discussion from those events was developed into a report: Surviving Digital Disruption (available for download).

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 8, 2024

Related: The ‘cyber’ case for D&O insurance Vanessa Pegueros knows this all too well. She serves on the board of several technology companies and also happens to be steeped in cyber risk governance. CISOs can sometimes be their own worst enemy, especially when it comes to communicating with the board of directors.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The cybersecurity regulations apply to entities overseen by the NYDFS, such as financial institutions, insurance companies, agents, and brokers, as well as banks, trusts, mortgage lenders and brokers, money transmitters, check cashers, and other related businesses.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

That action set off a chain of events that led another financial institution that helps MyPayrollHR process payments to briefly pull almost $26 million out of checking accounts belonging to employees at more than 1,000 companies that use MyPayrollHR. 1, 2019 to Aug.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

The legal complaint [PDF] notes that on July 9, 2019, the day it was hit by a ransomware attack, Springhill Memorial Hospital contended that the event had “not affected patient care.” ” Cyber Insurance No Longer Reliable. Also read: Cyber Insurers Pull Back Amid Increase in Cyber Attacks, Costs. .

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Zapproved

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

As COVID-19 continues to spread, so too do legal complaints—from challenges to gathering in groups, to event cancellations, to businesses suing their insurers for coverage of lost income.

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Insurance Government 85

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On May 13, the HSE’s antivirus security provider emailed the HSE’s security operations team, highlighting unhandled threat events dating back to May 7 on at least 16 systems. Hospital C’s antivirus software detected Cobalt Strike on two systems but failed to quarantine the malicious files. By then it was too late.

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ChiefTech

APRIL 7, 2013

I have a collection of different events, mostly in Sydney, that I''m planning on attending this month and in early May: This week, you will find me at: ShareThePoint (Sydney) conference, 10th & 11th April - This is Australasia’s biggest SharePoint event that tours Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. Government 2.0

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Insurance Government Communications 46

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Needless to say, it’s a good idea to keep these PINs somewhere safe and reliable in the event you wish to unfreeze. By law, each of the three major credit reporting bureaus must provide a free copy of your credit report each year — but only if you request it via the government-mandated site annualcreditreport.com.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

She shared with me a copy of the lease, which included a fraudulent ID and even a vehicle insurance card for a Land Cruiser we got rid of like 15 years ago. “It makes sense, because they’ve already got control over all these dormant businesses,” he said. ” PHANTOM OFFICES. . ” RECYCLING VICTIMS.

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Data Matters

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

DPFS will be relevant to all those in financial services, including those in the banking, insurance, fintech, funds, payments, private equity, securities, wealth management, and other financial sectors. How to deal with and manage the key issues for 2022, such as AI, data governance, and international transfers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

For industries providing essential services to clients such as insurance, banking and retail, the law requires the use of a fundamental rights impact assessment that details how the use of AI will affect the rights of customers. Dec 19, 2023 The European AI Act is currently the most comprehensive legal framework for AI regulations.

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Government Artificial Intelligence Risk Compliance 72

Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 3, 2021

In the event that individuals are identified after 60-days, they must be notified as “expediently as possible.”. Additionally, the revised Connecticut law removes from the notification timeframe the prior elements of incident investigation, identification of affected individuals, and restoration of the impacted systems.

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Data breaches IT Insurance Passwords 142

erwin

APRIL 11, 2019

Some industries, such as healthcare and financial services, have been subject to stringent data regulations for years: GDPR now joins the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) and the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). employees).

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Adam Levin

JUNE 25, 2018

South Carolina became the first state to pass a law requiring all insurance entities to create and maintain a cybersecurity and data breach response program. . The law itself was drafted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Cybersecurity Working Group, and was adapted from a similar proposal in New York.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

If you’re facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. Our Cyber Incident Response service provides the help you need to deal with the threat, as our experts guide you through the recovery process. They’ll review the breach, mitigate the damage and ensure that you are up and running again as soon as possible.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2020

‘LIKE A COMPANY BATTLING A COUNTRY’ Christianson said several factors stopped the painful Ryuk ransomware attack from morphing into a company-ending event. Cloud-based health insurance management portals. State and local government competitive bidding portals. “The bottom line is at 2 a.m.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Hunton & Williams Insurance Litigation & Counseling partner Lon Berk reports: An Israeli security firm recently uncovered a hacking operation that had been active for more than a decade. However, the policies also restrict coverage to events occurring on or after a “retroactive date.”

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