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What is not included in a Cyber Insurance Policy

CyberSecurity Insiders

Ever wondered what is covered and what is not in your Cyber Insurance Policy? If not, you better review the guidelines and inform all your C-level employees on strategies to cope with the losses that remain out of the cyber insurance cover. Otherwise, the cyber insurer will not offer any policy coverage.

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Discover 2022’s Nastiest Malware

Webroot

Since the mainstreaming of ransomware payloads and the adoption of cryptocurrencies that facilitate untraceable payments, malicious actors have been innovating new methods and tactics to evade the latest defenses. In other words, 2022 has been an eventful year in the threat landscape, with malware continuing to take center stage.

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Staying Ahead of Adversarial AI with Incident Response Automation

Security Boulevard

Powered by WormGPT and FraudGPT, hackers and scammers will continue to drive the cost of business higher as organizations pay more for cyber insurance. Businesses wanting to meet compliance mandates, lower their cyber insurance premiums, and reduce their security operations costs need to invest in AI for cyber defense.

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Ransomware Prevention, Detection, and Simulation

NetSpi Executives

Victims pay ransomware adversaries for decryption keys through cryptocurrency, such as Bitcoin. Do antivirus and endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools stop ransomware? Some can’t afford not to pay, and some are covered by cyber insurance. Should I get a ransomware cyber insurance policy?

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How Not to Pay the Ransom? No Soup For You, Ransomware!

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Intergovernmental organizations, national police departments, and antivirus vendors do their best to have the information corrupted by encryption malware available to its legitimate holders. Ransomware incidents covered by cyber insurance policies. They do it free of charge. Again, they do not charge any fees for that.

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

For access to the decryption key, the victim must make prompt payment, often in cryptocurrency shielding the attacker’s identity. This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. Bitdefender : Bitdefender Antivirus Plus. Offline Backups. Description.

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Report: Ransomware Attacks and the True Cost to Business

Security Boulevard

Ransomware attacks have continued to make headlines, and for good reason: on average, there is a new ransomware attack every 11 seconds, and the losses to organizations from ransomware attacks is projected to reach $20 billion over the course of 2021 following a record increase in losses of more than 225% in 2020.