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New survey results from Sophos, a provider of cybersecurity as a service, provide interesting data that delineates stand-alone cyber policies from cyber elements in broader policies. “The study also revealed…
Reported the company: “Over the last two years, the Resilience model has proven that by building a holistic approach to managing this risk, organisational security is increased dramatically. 100% of…
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New Zealand’s Latitude Financial suffered a ransomware attack, reportedly via an IT vendor. Estimates are that one fifth (!?) of New Zealand’s population had personal data exposed by the attack….
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“A cancer patient filed the lawsuit as an anonymous plaintiff, referred to as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, after [Lehigh Valley Health Network in Allentown, Pa.’s] chief compliance officer informed…
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Marsh analyzed its claims data and responses to customer self assessments. The resulting report may surprise some folks… “Automated hardening techniques — by a wide margin — have the greatest…
“A new scheme involves demanding that the target provide details of its cyber insurance policies so that the payment demands can be adjusted to fall within the coverage the victim…
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This TechTarget article includes results from the useful Delinea white paper: “Cyber Insurance – If You Get It, Be Ready to Use It.” “(Kurtis Minder, CEO of cybersecurity vendor GroupSenseMinder)…
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Eos is investing $5m in Fenix24; valuation was not released. The investment demonstrates growing industry focus on “right of the boom” cybersecurity technology — loss management for when pre-breach underwriting…
Maryland’s Atlantic General Hospital was hit at the end of January by a ransomware attack that disrupted operations, but did not penetrate electronic health records, which had a separate host,…
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“The cost of cyber liability insurance has surged in recent years. The premium for Minneapolis Public Schools’ policy rose from $42,000 last year to more than $63,000 this year, and…
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