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Cyber Insurance: Higher Premiums, Limited Coverage

Data Breach Today

GAO Report Summarizes Market Trends The increasing number of cyberthreats, especially ransomware attacks, is leading some cyber insurers to raise premiums and limit some coverage in hard-hit sectors, such as healthcare and education, according to a report from the Government Accountability Office.

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State-Sponsored Phishing Campaigns Target 40,000 VIP Individuals

KnowBe4

The first campaign, “LegalQloud,” is impersonating Microsoft to target government workers and investment bankers in North America. The first campaign, “LegalQloud,” is impersonating Microsoft to target government workers and investment bankers in North America. Boomer targets government and healthcare sectors,” the researchers write.

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Delivering business value for insurance companies

Collibra

Recapping a discussion moderated by Stijn Christiaens and featuring insurance data experts from Deloitte UK . Insurance is a data-intensive business. Insurance companies need data to better assess risks and price policies competitively, but also profitably. Data governance holds key to cloud migration.

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New York Regulators Call on Insurers to Strengthen the Cyber Underwriting Process

Hunton Privacy

As reported on the Hunton Insurance Recovery blog , on February 4, 2021, the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”), which regulates the business of insurance in New York, has issued guidelines, in the Insurance Circular Letter No. sought coverage for expenses under its property insurance policy.

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New York Department of Financial Services Issues First Guidance by a U.S. Regulator Concerning Cyber Insurance

Data Matters

2 announcing a Cyber Insurance Risk Framework (the Framework) that describes industry best practices for New York-regulated property/casualty insurers. According to NYDFS, the incorporation of these practices should be proportionate to each insurer’s size, resources, geographic distribution, and other factors. The Framework.

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GUEST ESSAY: Scammers leverage social media, clever con games to carry out digital exploitation

The Last Watchdog

Exploitation drivers From the case of Hegestratos committing insurance fraud by sinking a ship in 300 B.C., About the essayist : Collin McNulty is a content creator and digital marketer at Digital Forensics , a consultancy that works with law firms, governments, corporations, and private investigators

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The EU AI Act – the countdown begins

Data Protection Report

These prohibit some use cases e.g. emotion recognition systems in the workplace and in education or inappropriate use of social scoring. assessing credit risk, underwriting for life and health insurance, emotion recognition outside the workplace or education). These include various risk management and governance obligations.