Here it is—Your Cyber Insurance Sunday—Upload. The latest cybersecurity insurance news. A few items from the week: We have some thoughts on the CrowdStrike Outage, SeedPod Cyber and Seceon Partner, Cash for Cowbell, A grand jury indictment related to healthcare hacks, and a disturbing read from The Washington Post about how some online scams are executed. There’s more. Take a look. Share it. Enjoy the reads. Enjoy the day!
- Some thoughts for us on the impact of the CrowdStrike Outage; “People are the backbone of progress, even in the digital age.” The CrowdStrike Outage: A Wake-Up Call for Cybersecurity and Insurance
- Solutions MSPs and MSSPs; SeedPod Cyber and Seceon Partner to Boost Cybersecurity and Insurance Savings for MSPs/MSSPs.
- A couple of CrowdSrike outage cost calculations; Parametrix Estimates $5.4 Billion Loss for US Fortune 500 Companies Due to CrowdStrike Outage, and CyberCube Estimates Up to $1.5bn in Losses from CrowdStrike Outage.
- Cash for Cowbell; Cowbell Secures $60 Million Series C Funding from Zurich Insurance Group.
- The Feds point a finger at someone behind healthcare hacks and ransomware payments; North Korean charged in ransomware attacks on American hospitals.
- Good read on ransomware from the Economist; Secrets of a ransomware negotiator.
- Probably not the first time; Buffet was right.
- Finally, a story about digital scams that is a world away from the inanimate reality of silicon chips; A Chinese actor was enslaved in a compound running online scams, “The United Nations estimated in a report last August that more than 200,000 people are being forced to work as scammers in Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos.”