eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2021

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

JUNE 18, 2024

Over the last few years, ransomware attacks have become one of the most prevalent and expensive forms of cybercrime. Today, this tactic has evolved, where ransomware operators in nearly every case first exfiltrate sensitive data and then threaten to publicly expose it if a ransom demand is not paid.

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IT Governance

MAY 24, 2022

Organisations must always look for cost-effective ways to address the cyber security risks they face. With more than 1,200 publicly disclosed data breaches last year , and organisations spending almost £3 million on average responding to security incidents , effective risk management is a top priority. The benefits of cyber insurance.

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OpenText Information Management

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Whether a small business or a large enterprise, all organizations are feeling the impact of ransomware. In the third annual OpenText™ Cybersecurity 2024 Global Ransomware Survey , we put a magnifying glass to these growing attack techniques and vectors.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 20, 2020

To help mitigate the risk of financial losses, more companies are turning to cyber insurance. Related: Bots attack business logic Cyber insurance, like other forms of business insurance, is a way for companies to transfer some of numerous potential liability hits associated specifically with IT infrastructure and IT activities.

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Dark Reading

JULY 12, 2022

Cybersecurity insurance costs are rising, and insurers are likely to demand more direct access to organizational metrics and measures to make more accurate risk assessments.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 23, 2022

Cyber liability insurance helps organisations cover the financial costs of a data breach. Without insurance, organisations spend £3.6 By purchasing cyber liability insurance, organisations gain the resources they need at a fraction of the cost. What does cyber insurance include? First-party vs third-party insurance.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 21, 2023

The French Information and Digital Security Experts Club ( CESIN ) has estimated that 54% of French companies were subject to cyberattacks in 2021, [1] while France Assureurs has put cyberattack risks on top of all other risks for the sixth year in a row. [2] 12-10-1 into the French Insurance code.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 10, 2022

Checklist for Getting Cyber Insurance Coverage. The necessity for cyber-insurance coverage. With businesses becoming more and more digitized, they are exposed to greater cyber risks. Cyber risk insurance covers the costs of recovering from a security breach, a virus, or a cyber-attack. Tue, 05/10/2022 - 05:43.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers recently published lessons learned from the disruptive and costly ransomware attack in May 2021 on Ireland’s public health system. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

New outlook data from cyber insurance underwriters shows where they think the biggest threats will be in 2024… and what they think organizations.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 4, 2022

How Cybersecurity Insurance Can Work To Help An Organization. For many years, organizations had limited options for addressing data protection risks. A company could never eliminate risk, but they could try to reduce or mitigate it. The function of cybersecurity insurance. What does cybersecurity insurance cover?

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This marks the second such settlement with a HIPAA-regulated entity for violations that were discovered following a ransomware attack, according to HHS. It is also is notable in that it appears to be the second time in recent months that HHS has taken action against a healthcare provider in the wake of a ransomware attack.

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Dark Reading

JUNE 16, 2022

Cyber insurance is more than a policy for paying off ransomware gangs. It's designed to be something you transfer risk to when security controls fail.

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IG Guru

MAY 21, 2021

“The word to get out today is that, regarding ransomware, we don’t pay and we won’t pay,” cybercrime prosecutor Johanna Brousse said at the hearing. The post Insurer AXA to Stop Paying for Ransomware Crime Payments in France via Insurance Journal appeared first on IG GURU. Only the U.S. Only the U.S.

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IT Governance

JULY 30, 2024

Mitigating supply chain risk After widespread coverage, the CrowdStrike outage from 19 July 2024 hardly needs an introduction. According to Parametrix , an insurance company specialising in Cloud outages, cyber insurance policies likely cover up to 10–20% of losses only. of its share price.

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KnowBe4

MAY 22, 2023

Food for thought as discussed on May 18, 2023, an article posted in The Australian Insurance Council: Banning paying a ransom to cyber hackers is counter-productive where Andrew Hall, the Chief Executive of the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), stated that “attempts to ban businesses from paying ransoms for cyber attacks risks eroding trust and (..)

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KnowBe4

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The latest cyber claims report from Coalition , a digital risk insurance provider, finds a 12% increase in cyber insurance claims in the first half of 2023 over the second half of 2022, due to surging attack frequency and severity.

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Data Breach Today

JULY 5, 2022

The 31st annual conference covered a wide range of topics including cybercrime, cyberwarfare, zero trust, supply chain risk, ransomware, OT security, cyber insurance and jobs. Get the Latest Insights from the Industry's Top Minds - All in One Place Welcome to ISMG's compendium of RSA Conference 2022.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Toyota Financial Services discloses unauthorized activity on systems after the Medusa ransomware gang claimed to have hacked the company. We took certain systems offline to investigate this activity and to reduce risk, and have also begun working with law enforcement.” ” reads a statement published by the company.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For any organization struck by ransomware , business leaders always ask “how do we decrypt the data ASAP, so we can get back in business?”. The good news is that ransomware files can be decrypted. What can be done to recover from ransomware attacks when backups are not available? Insured companies often will not have options.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 15, 2023

CISA’s mandate follows a slew of recent attacks wherein attackers exploited zero-day flaws in popular networking products to conduct ransomware and cyber espionage attacks on victim organizations.

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IT Governance

JUNE 15, 2022

In an increasingly digital world, there are an escalating number of cyber security risks for business to address. In this blog, we look at the top five cyber security risks that businesses face, and explain how you can prevent them. MFA authentication can also be used to protect organisations from the next risk on our list.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 25, 2022

Lloyd’s of London has announced that its insurance policies will no longer cover losses resulting from certain nation-state cyber attacks or acts of war. In a memo sent to the organisation’s insurance syndicates , Underwriting Director Tony Chaudhry said that Lloyd’s remains “strongly supportive” of policies that cover cyber attacks.

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Data Breach Today

JANUARY 14, 2020

In light of recent ransomware and other cyberattacks against vendors serving numerous healthcare organizations, it's critical to develop and deploy comprehensive vendor risk management programs, says John Farley of Arthur J. a provider of cyber insurance. Gallagher & Co.,

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Bleeping Computer last week reported that Johnson Controls International has suffered a ransomware attack that impacted many systems of the company. Threat actors initially breached the systems at Asia offices, the ransomware also targeted the VMware ESXi servers. reported Bleeping Computer. ” reads the article published by CNN.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 27, 2023

LOPMI introduces amendments to the insurability of losses and damages paid in response to cyber-attacks, including in relation to ransom payments – requiring that the payment of insurance compensation be conditional on the filing of a complaint, within a 72 hour time frame, to competent authorities.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

First, we prepare a plan for the possibility, then when a ransomware attack occurs we execute the plan. To help, we break down the process into the following steps: How to Prepare for Ransomware. Ransomware Response. Simple Ransomware Recovery. How to Prepare for Ransomware. Ransomware Security.

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IG Guru

APRIL 16, 2020

Professor Daneil Solove interviews Kimberly Horn about Cyber Insurance and Ransomeware here. The post Ransomware and the Role of Cyber Insurance via Teach Privacy appeared first on IG GURU.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

It’s the news no organization wants to hear―you’ve been the victim of a ransomware attack, and now you’re wondering what to do next. Over 17 percent of all cyberattacks involve ransomware —a type of malware that keeps a victim’s data or device locked unless the victim pays the hacker a ransom.

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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.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

On April 22, 2019, HHS began investigating DMS after receiving a breach notification indicating that DMS’ network server was infected by the Gandcrab ransomware in April 2017. DMS did not detect the attack until after the ransomware was used to encrypt its files in December 2018.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 4, 2021

You would think that ExaGrid, a backup appliance and anti-ransomware service might know how to avoid ransomware, but it was hit. . million after it was hit with Conti ransomware. . The FBI announced last month that Conti ransomware had been used against the Irish healthcare system and at least sixteen U.S.

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IT Governance

JUNE 7, 2024

Expert insight from our cyber incident responder When talking to clients or taking questions at the end of webinars, many ask us about ransomware. In fact, ransomware is often the first thing people ask about! Ransomware features a lot in the news. There are even daily ransomware victim feeds ! This really is worrying.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Malware has been around for nearly 40 years, longer even than the World Wide Web, but ransomware is a different kind of threat, capable of crippling a company and damaging or destroying its critical data. Ransomware Protection and Recovery Steps. Ransomware removal tools. Ransomware recovery services. Data backup.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 29, 2024

Integrated risk management (IRM) is a discipline designed to embed risk considerations for the use of technology throughout an organization. In other words, it links technology spending directly to the value of the resource protected and the associated risks controlled by that technology.

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