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Best Practices Q&A: Guidance about what directors need to hear from CISOs — from a board member

The Last Watchdog

Related: The ‘cyber’ case for D&O insurance Vanessa Pegueros knows this all too well. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be. Boards must evolve or their organizations will fail.

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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

With all this in mind, let’s take a look at what a scammer does, who they target, and how to spot one trying to pick your metaphorical pockets. Here’s How to Do It Right. Finance and insurance finished a close second at 22.4%. Read More At: Most Organizations Do DMARC Wrong. Table of Contents: Who Do Scammers Target and Why?

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MY TAKE: Poorly protected local government networks cast shadow on midterm elections

The Last Watchdog

How well are state and local governments equipped to handle the huge security responsibilities, not only with elections but throughout their agency infrastructure? As Ananth explained, the city did two things right: they had cyber insurance and they didn’t pay the ransom. Election threat. Let’s look at what happened in Atlanta again.

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What is a Cyberattack? Types and Defenses

eSecurity Planet

Cisco Umbrella , analyzing the threat environment for 2022, found that 86% of organizations experienced phishing, 69% experienced unsolicited crypto mining, 50% were affected by ransomware, and 48% experienced some form of information-stealing malware. Capital markets, insurance, financial services, and banking are now online.

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Q&A: Why SOAR startup Syncurity is bringing a ‘case-management’ approach to threat detection

The Last Watchdog

SOAR, if you haven’t heard, is a hot new technology stack that takes well-understood data mining and business intelligence analytics methodologies — techniques that are deeply utilized in financial services, retailing and other business verticals – and applies them to cybersecurity. Smart money. Sutton: Syncurity has several innovations.

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Don’t Follow the Money; Follow the Customer!

Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC

If you complete the full Fluvastatin prescription, then we’ll reduce your monthly healthcare insurance payment by 5%.”. 2] “ Retail: How to Keep it Personal & Take Care of Privacy ”. Complete the purchase by selecting ‘ here ’ and we’ll deliver the medication and groceries to your home today between 4:00 and 4:20pm.

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Top GRC Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

How to choose a GRC platform. Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files. Insurance & claims management. Recommended: How To Improve Governance, Risk, and Compliance. MetricStream. ServiceNow. StandardFusion. Fusion Framework GRC.