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How One Company Survived a Ransomware Attack Without Paying the Ransom

eSecurity Planet

Tony Mendoza, Senior Director of Enterprise Business Solutions at Spectra Logic, laid out the details of the attack at the annual Fujifilm Recording Media USA (FRMA) Conference in San Diego late last month. “We We unplugged systems, as the virus was spreading faster than we could investigate,” Mendoza told conference attendees. “As

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Regulatory Update: NAIC Summer 2022 National Meeting

Data Matters

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2022 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) August 9–13, 2022. The Privacy Working Group has been reviewing state insurance privacy protections regarding the collection, ownership, use, and disclosure of information gathered in connection with insurance transactions.

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RSAC insights: How ‘TPRM’ can help shrink security skills gap — while protecting supply chains

The Last Watchdog

Big banks and insurance companies instilled the practice of requesting their third-party vendors to fill out increasingly bloated questionnaires, called bespoke assessments, which they then used as their sole basis for assessing third-party risk. TPRM will be in the spotlight at the RSA Conference 2022 next week in San Francisco.

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Regulatory Update: NAIC Summer 2020 National Meeting

Data Matters

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2020 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) from July 27 to August 14, 2020. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the NAIC held the Summer Meeting in a virtual format, with conference calls taking place over a three-week period. GCC Template and Instructions.

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Global Scamdemic: Scams Become Number One Online Crime

Security Affairs

Threat hunting and adversarial cyber intelligence company Group-IB published a comprehensive analysis of fraud cases on a global scale. Insurance companies around the world are now suffering from phishing. Over the past year, an average of over 100 phishing websites were created per insurer. million in one year .

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RSAC insights: CyberGRX finds a ton of value in wider sharing of third-party risk assessments

The Last Watchdog

With RSA Conference 2021 technical sessions getting underway today, I sat down with Fred Kneip, CEO of CyberGRX , to hash over the notion that a lot of good could come from more systematic sharing of the risk profiles that large enterprises routinely compile with respect to their third-party contractors.

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Driving innovation and growth, Reltio powers into 2024

Reltio

We unveiled the velocity packs in February, featuring pre-built connectors and smooth integrations to speed deployment for clients in sectors like healthcare, financial services, and insurance. As lead sponsor of the DataDriven23 conference, Reltio assembled data luminaries from across industries for a three-day event in Dallas.