Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Initial Access Broker (IAB) activity increased by 16% during the reporting period, heavily targeting US-based organizations due to perceived financial capability from cyber insurance. This demonstrates how threat actors are willing to exploit even the most sensitive of events for malicious purposes.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 21, 2024

The costs of recovering from such incidents, especially for smaller organizations without cyber insurance, can be devastating. Open-source tools can also be valuable; for example, tools like KeePass for password management or ClamAV for antivirus protection are free and widely respected.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 11, 2021

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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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In the event of a successful breach, your team must be ready to restore systems and data recovery. This is especially true for your existing intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS), antivirus, and anti-malware. Bitdefender : Bitdefender Antivirus Plus. Rapid Response Testing. Sandbox Testing. Offline Backups.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Additionally, many cyber liability insurance providers struggle to put a price on high-value company assets, or are reluctant to cover them in the first place. When deciding whether or not to invest in a cybersecurity insurance policy, companies must evaluate carefully the full impact of a serious data breach.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Deduce offers actionable identity intelligence through event-level telemetry to act against abnormal user activity. Cowbell Cyber. Cowbell Cyber is a dedicated cyber insurance company that relies on continuous risk assessment, AI data analytics, and real-time underwriting to give clients pre- and post-breach services.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Initial Access Broker (IAB) activity increased by 16% during the reporting period, heavily targeting US-based organizations due to perceived financial capability from cyber insurance. This demonstrates how threat actors are willing to exploit even the most sensitive of events for malicious purposes.

Cyber Attacks 52

Cyber Attacks Phishing Ransomware Cyber Insurance 52

Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Global Averages for a Data Breach The following statistics are cited in IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2019 as the global averages for a data breach event. In fact, one report shows that business email compromises are 23% of cyber insurance claims.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 1, 2021

More generally, SecureWorks said employees should be trained how to recognize phishing attempts, and Microsoft’s Burt said other practices of good cybersecurity hygiene – such as using multi-factor authentication and antivirus and antimalware software – should also be common. Nation-State Interests.

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