Duo's Security Blog

JUNE 21, 2021

According to Verizon’s most recent Data Breach Incident Report , instances of advanced ransomware have doubled in the past year, alongside major upticks in phishing attacks and social engineering. Municipalities and healthcare organizations that need immediate access to critical information are also frequent targets.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Paying for internal assessments and penetration tests by a third party can provide fresh thinking and a level of assurance for stakeholders such as customers, the board of directors, and the insurance company that wrote our cyber insurance policy. Is the attack small enough that we do not need to file a cyber insurance claim?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Most probably more attacks on the education and healthcare sectors will occur plus targeted campaigns against industry leaders – especially those that hold critical information: sensitive data, top expertise, and latest technologies. Yet, in addition to cyber insurance, companies will need a designated DR or RR (Rolling Recovery) plan.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 9, 2024

According to IBM’s recently released “Cost of a Data Breach” statistics report, the average financial toll of a data breach has surged to an unprecedented $4.45 Regional Disparities in Data Breach Costs The United States emerges with a significantly higher average cost of $9.4

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SC Magazine

JULY 2, 2021

An exterior view of the Anthem Health Insurance headquarters. About 80 million company records were accessed in one of the largest health care data breaches. Other major settlements stemmed from covered entities that failed to provide adequate breach notification.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. cyber insurance as a whole was changing heavily. And why is that? It started off pretty easy to get.

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Spinone

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report 2019 cited the following: Lost business is the biggest contributor to data breach costs The average cost of lost business in 2019 was $1.42 In fact, one report shows that business email compromises are 23% of cyber insurance claims.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

The primary target and focus for nation-states will continue to be their adversaries Critical Infrastructure sectors, such as healthcare, government, communications, transportation, defense industrial base, media, utilities, finance, and cargo logistics. Recovery from supply chain attacks will cost 3x-5x more as compared to data breaches.

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Pen Test

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Double extortion introduces catastrophic risks of data breach and loss of customer trust if sensitive information gets leaked publicly. Even just the notification of a data breach can harm an organization's reputation and bottom line. Businesses will need to demonstrate cyber risk management to get the best premiums.

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Herjavec Group

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Within this whirlwind of all things moving to the internet, insurance vendors recently began to take cyber insurance very seriously. They first sold it asking ‘do you have antivirus and a firewall’ – check box one, check box two, now you have cyber insurance.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

Privafy aims to serve a valuable corner of the market – securing data-in-motion. As up to 80 percent of data breaches occur while data moves between cloud networks, Privafy offers security for cloud infrastructure as well as a list of edge computing solutions to securely deploy IoT devices and edge networks in the years to come.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

Not just your traditional modern enterprise software, but also in areas of critical infrastructure, in automotive and energy and healthcare, where especially devices are going on be on-premise, they’re going to be embedded in systems that might have a long lifespan and it’s very important to know what’s under the hood.”.

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