KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A phishing campaign is impersonating HR to target employees who are making annual insurance changes during the open enrollment period, according to researchers at Abnormal Security.

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KnowBe4

AUGUST 24, 2022

It's great budget ammo for security awareness training. You saw the title and are reading this, so I think you agree. Here is s short extract and I recommend you reading the whole article, link is below.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

Blog post with (lots of) links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. link] [Head Scratcher] More Companies With Cyber Insurance Are Hit by Ransomware Than Those Without? Users beware.

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KnowBe4

MAY 18, 2022

Whoa Nellie, that's getting to be real money here. This is the kind of thing that starts cutting into your whole IT budget.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

Security awareness training still has a place to play here." New-school security awareness training with simulated phishing tests enables your employees to recognize increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks and builds a strong security culture. We must ask: 'Is the email expected? Is the from address legit?

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2022

Cyber Insurer Provides Help. As Spectra Logic had the foresight to take out cyber insurance , Chubb representatives were professional and helpful, according to Mendoza. Also read: Top 8 Cyber Insurance Companies for 2022 Best Ransomware Removal and Recovery Services. Most had been infected. Both factors must be balanced.

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Menlo Security warns that a social engineering campaign is using the EvilProxy phishing kit to target senior executives across a range of industries, including banking and financial services, insurance, property management and real estate, and manufacturing.

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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 also talked quite a bit about cyber insurance and the recent trends. billion by 2027. "3x

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Tricking five state Medicaid programs, two Medicare Administrative Contractors, and two private health insurers, the scammers posed as hospitals to alter payment details.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 9, 2020

will insurance cover ransom payments? how hackers maximise their penetration across the victim’s network to inflict maximum damage. the do’s and don’t’s when conducting breach response and an internal investigation. the thorny question: should I pay the ransom? the thorny question: should I pay the ransom? how to pay the ransom.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Insurance provider Hiscox has published its fifth annual cyber readiness report , which has some eye-opening statistics.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The survey also found almost unanimous faith in the benefits of security awareness training: Fully 96 percent of respondents believe training can bring about long-term, positive changes to their employees’ cybersecurity behavior. ” Also read: Cybersecurity Training and Tech Aren’t Enough; ‘Culture Change’ Needed.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

They earned the highest score among providers named "Customer's Choice" in Gartner's 2022 "Voice of the Customer” Security Awareness Computer-Based Training report. Businesses have to comply with legal, insurance, and industry regulations for data storage, management, and transmission. Better compliance management.

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Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

Department of Health and Human Service’s Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) issued industry guidance for Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) regulated entities to take preventative steps to protect against some of the more common, and often successful, cyber-attack techniques. On March 17, 2022, the U.S.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 25, 2017

Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) entered into a resolution agreement with MAPFRE Life Insurance Company of Puerto Rico (“MAPFRE”) relating to a breach of protected health information (“PHI”) contained on a portable storage device. On January 18, 2017, the U.S.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Along with celebrating Cyber Security Awareness Month, several exciting events are taking place across the world, aiming to educate people on the latest trends in cybersecurity and privacy. On 26 October , we co-host a workshop on cybersecurity insurance with Infinigate. Data Security. Thu, 10/06/2022 - 06:55.

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Data Matters

MAY 6, 2022

Digital health companies should take note of new data privacy and security developments under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) that can affect product planning and customer negotiations. implement a security awareness and training program for all workforce members pursuant to the HIPAA Security Rule.

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Getting Information Done

APRIL 18, 2017

Poor security awareness continues to be the greatest inhibitor to defending against cyber threats, followed closely by the massive volumes of data for IT security teams to analyze/protect. As a result, companies are turning to cyber insurance. Will this be the cyber insurance equivalent to Fitbit?

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KnowBe4

JUNE 20, 2023

Perhaps more importantly, do you know how effective new-school security awareness training is as a mission-critical layer in your security stack? million simulated phishing security tests. Get tricked into giving away their credentials or download malware? million users across 35,681 organizations with over 32.1

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

New school security awareness training can help any organization sustain that line of defense and create a strong security culture. Blog post with links: [link] A Master Class on IT Security: Roger A. New Jersey appellate division judges rejected the insurers' argument that the 2017 attack, which U.S.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 28, 2024

Government regulations, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and industry regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accounting Act (HIPAA), oblige companies to protect their customers’ personal data. Data breach victims also frequently face steep regulatory fines or legal penalties.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 17, 2018

We’re all guilty of making mistakes – it’s human nature – but employees need to understand the most important elements of information security, and non-technical staff need to be made familiar with security awareness policies and procedures. Cyber attack/criminal hacker. Are you prepared for a data breach?

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KnowBe4

MAY 29, 2019

Consider Cybersecurity Insurance. The city of Baltimore didn’t have a cybersecurity insurance policy before the attack but is reportedly in the market for coverage. Be sure to train your employees to be aware of phishing and common tactics with a comprehensive security awareness initiative.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Much blame has been placed on lax software patching practices at Equifax, but the cause of the intrusion was ultimately a people and organizational structure issue, argues Lance Spitzner , director of security awarness at the SANS Institute. Source: Accenture.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Many victims wind up paying a fraction of that amount, as they may be able to negotiate these charges down or rely on cyber insurance coverage to cover a portion of these costs. By prioritizing three security steps, businesses can optimize their ransomware protection tactics.

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KnowBe4

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This means you have a bunch of users that unwittingly follow a set of unusual and unnecessary clicks that they should know better than to follow – something they learn very quickly if they are enrolled in new-school security awareness training. Blog post with links: [link] Are Your Users Making Risky Security Mistakes?

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MARCH 14, 2019

Under the proposed Rule, FIs would be required to provide personnel with security awareness training that is updated to reflect risks identified by the FI’s risk assessment. Employee training.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing. Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Join us TOMORROW, Wednesday, December 7 @ 2:00 PM (ET) , for a live demo of how KnowBe4 introduces a new-school approach to security awareness training and simulated phishing. Save My Spot!

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

In another case, a doctor input his patient's name and their medical condition and asked ChatGPT to craft a letter to the patient's insurance company. Your employees need to be stepped through new-school security awareness training so that they understand the risks of doing things like this.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 6, 2023

A new, HUGE, very important, fact has been gleaned by Barracuda Networks which should impact the way that EVERYONE does security awareness training. CONTINUED] at KnowBe4 blog: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore.

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

The next layer in your defense should be a user that's properly educated using security awareness training to easily identify financial fraud and other phishing-based threats, stopping them before they do actual damage. link] Cyber Insurance: Is Paying a Ransom Counter-Productive? By Jacqueline Jayne.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 11, 2023

This puts the onus on cybersecurity solutions and the users themselves, as the only additional means to keep the org secure. We already know that 10% of threats get past security solutions, so we're left with educating the user to stop attacks. They might make you feel like the first drop on a roller coaster! via email anyway.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 27, 2021

Some of the biggest names in tech are promising to spend more than $30 billion to bolster cybersecurity capabilities, from securing the supply chain and expanding the adoption of the zero trust model to growing the talent pool , ramping up security awareness and revamping parts of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Board-management discussions about cyber risk should include identification of which risks to avoid, which to accept, and which to mitigate or transfer through insurance, as well as specific plans associated with each approach. Principle 5.

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KnowBe4

MAY 2, 2023

In the near term, new-school security awareness training can help alert your people to the tells of automated scamming. Blog post with links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore.

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