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Checklist for Getting Cyber Insurance Coverage

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Checklist for Getting Cyber Insurance Coverage. The necessity for cyber-insurance coverage. With cyber attacks amounting to a question of when and not if, cyber insurance becomes crucial for ensuring business continuity and mitigating the business impact of attacks – should they occur. Tue, 05/10/2022 - 05:43.

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LW ROUNDTABLE: Cybersecurity takeaways of 2023 — and what’s ahead in 2024 ( part 1)

The Last Watchdog

What should I be most concerned about – and focus on – in 2024? Ongoing education and skill development requires educating teams and ensuring employees become proactive contributors to organizational defense. The comments we received were uniformly insightful and helpful. Here is part one of three groupings.

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New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

Krebs on Security

“It’s not going to be forensically solid, but that’s not what they care about,” he said. Using hard-to-crack unique passwords to protect sensitive data and accounts, as well as enabling multi-factor authentication. ” The Venus ransom group’s extortion note. ”

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ROUNDTABLE: What happened in privacy and cybersecurity in 2021 — and what’s coming in 2022

The Last Watchdog

Last Watchdog sought commentary from technology thought leaders about lessons learned in 2021– and any guidance they might have to offer heading into 2022. Companies need to get the basics right: implement multi-factor authentication, lock down Internet systems and remote access solutions. More than two dozen experts participated.

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Medibank Defends its Security Practices as its Ransomware Woes Worsen

IT Governance

The Australian health insurance giant fell victim to ransomware in October, as a result of which the personal data of 9.7 Health data, by contrast, enables attackers to operate under the radar, typically to commit health insurance fraud. I think that’s probably a bad call given all of their earlier posturing about being transparent.”.

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NEW TECH: DataLocker introduces encrypted flash drive — with key pad

The Last Watchdog

What’s that all about? It has a battery, so it’s platform independent and you don’t have to rely on the computer’s operating system to turn it on or authenticate it. You just simply push the power button, type in your password, authenticate it; and then you can connect it to any system with a USB port.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

In this instance, Kid Security failed to configure authentication for its Kafka Broker cluster, exposing at least 456,000 private social media messages, audio recordings, IP addresses, device locations, usage statistics and more for over a year. EyeCare Services Partners exposes more 3.5 The biggest database in the blob contained 3.1