Verisk Partners with Infosec to Offer  Insurance Carriers Cyber Training for their Clients 

“The ISO Cyber Insurance Program is part of Verisk’s Cyber Solutions Suite, an end-to-end ecosystem that can help insurers and reinsurers more quickly deliver new cyber programs or enhance existing solutions. Powered by data on more than 100 million organizations worldwide, the suite provides a wide range of products and services, including a pricing, underwriting, … Read more

More Insurance/Tech Co Teaming: Cowbell Cyber & Trend Micro to Offer Improved Access to Cyber Insurance

“The partnership gives Trend Micro’s MSP partners & customers exclusive access to an all-digital, streamlined application process for Prime 100 cyber insurance policies.” Source: Cowbell Cyber Partners with Trend Micro to Offer Improved Access to Cyber Insurance

Useful & Detailed Primer on Russian State-Sponsored Cyber Threats (from @CISAgov)

“This CSA (Cybersecurity Advisory, from last month) provides an overview of Russian state-sponsored cyber operations; commonly observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs); detection actions; incident response guidance; and mitigations. This overview is intended to help the cybersecurity community reduce the risk presented by these threats… Russian state-sponsored APT actors have used sophisticated cyber capabilities to … Read more

Did This Illinois Town Learn Its Lesson After Cyber Scam That Cost Over $400,000? 

The lesson Moline had already heeded was to have cyber insurance. Tokio Marine paid out $404,764 for losses the city suffered in a phishing scheme that directed wire transfers to a scammer. The second lesson was prompted by the attack and its aftermath. “Moline has since reviewed all of its internal control policies with the … Read more

How “Far Away” Does the War Need to Be for Cyber Insurance Exclusions to Apply?  

“But there is currently no good way for talking about and dividing up the different impacts of a single piece of code in the context of insurance claims, so the question becomes misleadingly binary: Was NotPetya’s impact an act of cyberwar or not? Merck wasn’t specifically targeted by NotPetya; it was a noncombatant outside the … Read more

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