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VikingCloud surveyed large multi-location brands, which the report calls “distributed enterprises,” on how attacks spread and who pays. Headquarters makes the ransom call far more often than it mandates security. The survey did not ask whose cyber policy responds. When ransomware hits one location of a large brand, headquarters usually makes the ransom call. That … Read more
Nudge Security CEO Russell Spitler says cyber insurance applications miss the question that decides SaaS supply chain risk. He has yet to see an insurer ask for a company’s list of applications. In August 2025, attackers stole OAuth tokens from Salesloft’s Drift integration. They used them to pull data out of Salesforce instances across many … Read more
Three-quarters of organizations that suffered a material cyberattack and business interruption in the past year blew through their recovery time objective. On average, recovery took nearly twice as long as the objective they had set. That figure does not appear in Cohesity’s press release. It sits on page six of the full report, and it … Read more
Threat intelligence has a timing problem. Most of it arrives after the damage. An indicator of compromise is a receipt, not a warning. Silent Push announced on Aug. 4 that it will sell its underlying infrastructure data to other cybersecurity companies. The Reston, Virginia firm previously kept that data inside its own platform. Now product … Read more
Cowbell’s new framework scores how much autonomy customers hand their AI systems. OMNI’s own settings are undescribed. Cowbell’s underwriters accept their AI’s pricing nine times out of ten. The company launched that AI today. OMNI reads submissions, weighs risk signals, and returns priced non-admitted quotes in minutes. Cowbell reports 53% growth in new business since … Read more