SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

In a report released May 20, the Government Accountability Office looked at how the private cybersecurity insurance market has developed over the past five yearsRich Baich is global chief information security officer for insurance giant AIG. Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 10, 2022

Checklist for Getting Cyber Insurance Coverage. As cyber criminals mature and advance their tactics, small and medium businesses become the most vulnerable because they lack the capacity – staff, technology, budget - to build strong cyber defenses. The necessity for cyber-insurance coverage.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 26, 2021

New research reveals that a record number of organizations are buying cyber insurance policies as a tool for protecting themselves against cyber risk. However, the cost for those policies is rising dramatically as cyber insurance premiums soar up to 30% vs. the previous year. cyber insurance market.

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CSO Magazine

MAY 5, 2023

The New Jersey appellate division judges hearing the appeal judge noted that the plain definition of war applies to the various insurance policies and that a cyberattack against an accounting firm not engaged in hostilities, while criminal and based on ill-will, was not tantamount to an act of war.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Trends of cyber insurance claims for 2020. Coalition, a cyber insurance company, recently released a report detailing the categories of cyber attacks as well as the cause behind the attacks for the first half of 2020. The number one type of cyber incident so far this year is ransomware.

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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

In its modern iteration, cyber liability insurance mitigates the losses and business costs associated with cyber incidents and resulting downtime. CyberCube, a company specializing in quantifying cyber risk, estimates that the U.S. standalone cyber insurance market could reach $45 billion in premiums by 2034.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

Insurance marketplace Lloyd’s of London is set to introduce cyber insurance exclusions to coverage for “catastrophic” state-backed attacks from 2023. The move is reflective of a maturing and quickly evolving cyber insurance market. Nation-state attacks pose systemic risk to insurers.

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SC Magazine

MAY 19, 2021

The development of cybersecurity insurance has played an important role in determining how companies prepare for and respond to ransomware attacks and the resulting fallout. The post How the ransomware explosion is reshaping the cyber insurance market appeared first on SC Media.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 20, 2021

Cyber insurance is driving a long overdue improvement in user access security. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is fast becoming a requirement for all privilege and non-privilege accounts, whether users are working on the internal network or remotely.

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Cytelligence

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The cost of cyber attacks, including financial losses, reputational damage, and legal consequences, can be staggering. To mitigate these risks, businesses often invest in cyber insurance. However, there is a powerful and cost-effective tool that businesses can utilize to reduce their cyber insurance costs: strong passwords.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 19, 2022

It’s clear that securing APIs and web apps is increasingly top of mind for insurers; our customers tell us that these are the 10 most common controls insurers are looking at: Managed vulnerabilities Patched systems and applications Protected privileged accounts Prepared and tested […].

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors. Insurance Becomes a Necessity The rise of high-profile cyberattacks has led to increased demand for cyber insurance.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

For example, they’re used in boardrooms as “eye candy” to portray the state of company cyber-risk, with supply chain partners to manage third-party risk and, even more frightening, by insurance companies to create risk profiles for cyber-insurance policies. Does it truly reflect the security of the company? Usually not.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The attack did not affect the Learning Management System (“LMS”) that is used to provide educational content to students and to host student accounts. They also state that most major systems, including payroll, accounting, and enrollment systems, were unaffected. “K12 Inc. NYSE: LRN) (“Stride” or “we”) – to be Stride, Inc.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 24, 2018

That second computer had the ability to manage National Bank customer accounts and their use of ATMs and bank cards. The hackers used hundreds of ATMs across North America to dispense funds from customer accounts. “This is a rapidly growing area and a profit center for a lot of insurance companies,” Castagnoli said.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

AIG is one of the top cyber insurance companies in the U.S. Today’s columnist, Erin Kennealy of Guidewire Software, offers ways for security pros, the insurance industry and government regulators to come together so insurance companies can continue to offer insurance for ransomware. eflon CreativeCommons CC BY 2.0.

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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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 25, 2021

And sometimes cyber criminals are using email services to trick employees into making fraudulently large financial transfers via new business deals or contracts. Seeking cyber insurance coverage, creating awareness among employees and protecting accounts with 2FA is the advice that is being given by the researchers of DCMS.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 31, 2024

While this is standard practice for addressing liability within the universe of real estate, deliberate and precise actions are required when negotiating cyber insurance coverage. All stakeholders, including insurers, need to understand whose cyber insurance policy responds to an incident.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The relationship between enterprises and insurers, like the cyber insurance market itself, is evolving. That’s quite the incentive for insurers to assert themselves in this market. And Bobritsky contends that a reliance on insurers to lead the way may actually degrade cybersecurity. “So A maturing model.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 26, 2022

Due to the evolving and growing impact of cybersecurity incidents there are some questions starting to arise about the way that insurance companies deal with the costs that are the results of such incidents. But cyber insurance comes in different flavors and sizes. An act of war? Lloyd’s of London.

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BH Consulting

JULY 17, 2024

One of the largest tech companies, Amazon Web Services, has now made it mandatory for privileged accounts. Security Week reported that Mandiant’s investigation traced the incident back to stolen credentials and found that targeted accounts weren’t using MFA. MFA is seen as a critical control in reducing the risk of account takeovers.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 12, 2022

Even with the advancements in network isolation, containment, and prevention at the endpoint, hackers will still bypass predictive controls to execute malware attacks, ransomware exploits, account takeovers.etc. What Is Not Covered Under Cyber Insurance? Below is a list of adaptive controls needed for cyber insurance.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Cyber Insurance: US cyber insurance premiums soared by 50% in 2022, reaching $7.2 Cyber Skills Gap: By 2025, there could be 3.5 million unfilled cyber security jobs, showing a big need for skilled professionals. Data Breach Costs: The average global cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 million per breach.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. Taking into account unknowables, we’re talking about a ballpark cost of roughly $75,000 per BEC-related complaint. That is exponentially more expensive than other cyber events.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 22, 2022

Even with ransomware costing billions of dollars in losses and cyber insurance claims, organizations are still impacted beyond the checkbook. These attacks have driven the cost of cyber insurance premiums higher. Cyber insurance has become more critical to organizations to help offset the risk to the company.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 2, 2022

Hospitals taken offline after cyberattack Emotet fixes bug in code, resumes spam campaign “Reject All” cookie consent button is coming to European Google Search and YouTube What’s happening in the world of personal cyber insurance? URGENT BUSINESS PROPOSAL!!!” Critical patches for Chrome and Edge.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Hackers posing as Coincheck.com employees contacted the company’s customers and requested their account credentials. It should include an inventory of who can access registrar accounts, implementation of two-factor authentication, and password hygiene checks.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 22, 2023

Instead, the ransom pay can be covered from a cyber insurance policy, provided it is taken prior to the launch of the attack and covers the costs associated with the malware attack. Notify your bank: Inform your bank about the situation and work with them to protect your accounts and prevent any fraudulent activity.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 30, 2022

In that case, they may upload fake documents that tell employees to transfer money from their accounts into the criminals’ accounts or compromise their security even more. While enforcement of FERPA is left to the department of education, there is some sense of data accountability and disclosure of events.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

One possible solution, touted by former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on a recent podcast , would be for the federal government to step in and help pay for these sorts of attacks by providing a cyber insurance backstop.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Malicious cyberattacks caused the majority of these security incidents, accounting for 73% of all breaches. Unauthorized access or disclosure accounted for another 22%, and the remaining 5% were caused by smaller thefts, losses, or improper disposals. More than 22.8 Another 20.7% were attributed to extortion.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Insight #1: CISOs, you need insurance coverage According to German multinational insurance company Munich Re, the global cyber insurance market is expected to rise from $14 billion to $29 billion by 2027. Insight #3: We should review security policies more often How often are you reviewing your security policies?

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Duo's Security Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Cyber Liability Insurance Invests in MFA Multi-factor authentication has been around longer than most current college students have been alive, but when it comes to strong authentication modern MFA changed the game. MFA is core to implementing a zero trust stance to protect your campus.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Insight #2: Controls to lower cyber insurance costs The number one thing that should decrease cyber security insurance premiums should be multi-factor authentication. There are definitely other things you can do as outlined here , but MFA is probably the largest factor in preventing account compromise/breach.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 16, 2022

The cost calculator for cyberattacks takes into account general data—like revenue, number of employees, vertical, headquarters location and the types of records stores—to arrive at an “annual loss expectancy” figure, according to vice president of AI and cyber insurance at Safe Security, Pankaj Goyal.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Cyber Insurance companies used to simply provide lists of potential vendors approved by the insurer, but with the rising costs of breaches, insurers need to control costs. We can also hold them accountable for any mistakes they make and push some of the potential liability in their direction.

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