Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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Insurance Government Cybersecurity Risk 94

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to a recent market study 1 , 71% of individuals surveyed said double and triple extortion tactics have grown in popularity over the last 12 months, and 65% agree that these new threats make it tougher to refuse ransom demands. The pains of double extortion ransomware A security gap? What is Double Extortion Ransomware?

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Ransomware Encryption Security awareness Insurance 71

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

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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Insurance Paper Privacy Risk 78

Adam Levin

JUNE 30, 2020

While there’s no shortage of examples of ransomware attacks, a recent study by data protection firm Veritas suggests an even bigger problem that few, if any, companies are prepared for: Customers are increasingly laying the blame on companies, specifically their CEOs, rather than on the hackers perpetrating the attacks.

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #11 | March 14th, 2023 [Heads Up] Employees Are Feeding Sensitive Biz Data to ChatGPT, Raising Security Fears Robert Lemos at DARKReading just reported on a worrying trend. In a recent report, data security service Cyberhaven detected and blocked requests to input data into ChatGPT from 4.2%

Phishing 86

Phishing Security Artificial Intelligence Security awareness 86

KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

That's right – the financial services industry, at least according to cybersecurity vendor Armorblox's 2023 Email Security Threat Report. Blog post with links: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. Yup – shoe store. By Jacqueline Jayne.

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Phishing File names Security awareness Risk 76

IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Insurers struggle to manage profitability while trying to grow their businesses and retain clients. Large, well-established insurance companies have a reputation of being very conservative in their decision making, and they have been slow to adopt new technologies.

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Insurance Digital transformation Customer Experience Cloud 106

Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2019 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) in New York City from August 3 to 6, 2019. The amended regulation took effect on August 1, 2019, for annuity products and will become effective on February 1, 2020, for life insurance products.

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Insurance Paper Risk Analytics 68

KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

New school security awareness training can help any organization sustain that line of defense and create a strong security culture. Blog post with links: [link] A Master Class on IT Security: Roger A. And this enormous security gap leaves you open to business email compromise, session hijacking, ransomware and more.

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Phishing Passwords Insurance Systems administration 69

Collibra

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Data governance is the process of managing data as a strategic asset so it is accurate, accessible, secure, and consistent. Learn how Definity Financial, a group of innovative property and casualty insurance companies, put their organization on the fast track to data intelligence with the power of Collibra Data Catalog and Google Cloud.

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Government Metadata Cloud Insurance 52

erwin

MARCH 30, 2020

Privately it will come from hospitals, labs, pharmaceutical companies, doctors and private health insurers. To be successful and generate quality results, this consortium will need to adhere to strict disciplines around managing the data that comes into the study.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. They can provide that additional security, remotely.

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Insurance Privacy Ransomware GDPR 40

Collibra

JANUARY 24, 2019

Below are some tips that can help guide companies through the data strategy that must sit behind digital transformation. Everything from automating insurance claims and optimizing financial models, to performing medical diagnoses. This puts the Chief Data Officer (CDO) front and center as companies digitally transform.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MAY 5, 2020

To achieve these, local data processing or anonymization of data must be considered; The security and confidentiality of the personal data processed in the context of connected vehicles must be guaranteed, in particular by implementing measures such as the encryption of the communication channel. . geolocation data; biometric data; etc.)

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Yet, unpatched vulnerabilities provide attackers with open opportunities to cause great damage – with studies showing unpatched vulnerabilities estimated to account for 30-60% of all breaches! All companies deploy security strategies, even if the strategies have not been written down.

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Compliance Cybersecurity Risk IT 93

IGI

MAY 1, 2018

This publication was written by the Information Governance Initiative as part of our ongoing series exploring issues, strategies, and techniques related to information governance. IG is – or should be – firmly rooted in practical, results-oriented strategy and tactics. The experience of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp.,

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Information governance Government Records Management Insurance 20

Collibra

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Viewed more broadly, the data associated with a patient’s engagement with a healthcare provider – for example, admissions records and procedures performed – can provide insights into the future strategy of the organization. . For example, often there is no agreed data infrastructure or security standards between technology systems.

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Government Data Privacy Privacy Communications 59

Reltio

APRIL 25, 2019

According to her, “customer experience (CX) is now seen as a key business strategy for every brand.” How do you ensure security and privacy while personalizing the customer experience? How do you ensure security and privacy while personalizing the customer experience?

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Customer Experience Digital transformation B2B B2C 75

Preservica

AUGUST 15, 2018

The selection of Preservica was the culmination of an extensive review process in which a cross-departmental team was tasked with the creation of an infrastructure to manage, preserve, and insure reliable and easy access to born-digital and digitized materials. Visit: www.preservica.com Twitter: @preservica.

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Digital preservation Libraries Archiving Education 40

Collibra

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Incomplete or inaccurate data, security problems, hidden data – the list is endless. According to a study, about 80% of the time of a data engineer is spent on updating, maintaining and assuring the quality of the data pipeline. But they struggle with data quality issues all the time. Finally, tools.

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Analytics Customer Experience Marketing Unstructured data 92

ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Many narratives that deal with change, strategy, transformation, and implementation involve discussing risk. “In Commissioned by organizers to predict worst-case scenarios for the Munich games, [Georg] Sieber came up with a range of possibilities, from explosions to plane crashes, for which security teams should be prepared.

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Digital transformation Risk IT Computer and Electronics 54

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 24, 2024

Protecting Against the Risks and Managing the Complexities of a Quantum World with Thales and IBM Consulting madhav Thu, 01/25/2024 - 11:03 Contributors: Ollie Omotosho - Director, Strategir Partnerships, Thales Antti Ropponen, Head of Data & Application Security Services, IBM Consulting In the world of business, data security is paramount.

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Risk Encryption Blockchain Authentication 87

eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 28, 2019

We will cover the following areas: Legal strategies. Mobile Workforce: Operational Efficiency, Productivity, and Security. BYOD and security). Case studies with best practices, ROI benefits and efficiencies achieved. Rethinking Your eDiscovery Approach for In-House Counsel. Data governance. Contract review.

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e-Discovery Analytics Compliance Risk 44

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

This guide will provide a high level overview of encryption and how it fits into IT through the following topics: How Encryption Works To understand how encryption works, we need to understand how it fits into the broader realm of cryptology, how it processes data, common categories, top algorithms, and how encryption fits into IT security.

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IGI

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

So as the benchmark study reported, the need for long-term digital preservation and access capabilities is pervasive. The reality is that organizations use many different strategies, applications and storage solutions to create and manage business information and records.

Digital preservation 20

Digital preservation Government Digital transformation Access 20

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 5, 2018

Key Findings from the 2018 Global Encryption Trends Study. With more organizations using multiple cloud providers to store and process their data, while at the same time needing to demonstrate compliance with increasingly stringent regulations, it’s essential to have a data protection strategy that is up to the task.

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Encryption Cloud IoT e-Discovery 48

Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Where the Information Commissioner gives notices to data controllers, she can now secure compliance, with the power to issue substantial administrative penalties of up to 4% of global turnover. How then will we secure adequacy without adhering to the charter? Where she finds criminality, she can prosecute.

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GDPR Personal data Government IT 120

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 23, 2018

On March 14, 2018, IBM Security announced the results of a new global study on organizational cybersecurity readiness and resiliency entitled “The 2018 Cyber Resilient Organization.” 23% of respondents say they do not currently have a CISO or security leader. .” Is this confidence misplaced?

Cybersecurity 40

Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Data breaches IoT 40

ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

Mark Lance, the VP of DFIR and Threat intelligence for GuidePoint Security, provides The Hacker Mind with stories of ransomware cases he’s handled. One other thing: the Conti source code was also leaked, allowing security companies to create their own decryption services for anyone infected with the Conti ransomware. By no means.

Ransomware 40

Ransomware Encryption Authentication Communications 40

ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

Tib3rius from White Oak Security discusses his experience as a web application security pen tester, his OSCP certification, and how he’s giving back to the community with his Twitch , Youtube , and tools he's made available on GitHub. My CISSP cert was the product of studying and a lot of very hard work. I’m waiting.

IT 40

IT Security Access Education 40

Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Take mining out of the picture and the top industry ("Consulting & Strategy"), pays only 5% more than tech. You also have expenses, primarily loan repayments but also maintenance, council rates, insurance and possibly strata and property management fees. Banking is below that. Medical even lower. Which brings us to risk.

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Education Marketing IT Insurance 111

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2020

NIST has been getting positive feedback to draft guidelines it issued in late March which essentially serves as a roadmap for enterprises to account for cyber exposures when implementing ERM strategies. Most people thought since operating the system was so easy, securing the system must be simple too. Clinton: It’s a good question.

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Risk Insurance Cybersecurity Marketing 199

The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

This very high-profile caper is part of an extended surge of ransomware attacks, which quintupled globally between the first quarter of 2018 and the fourth quarter of 2020, and is expected to rise 20 percent to 40 percent this year, according to insurance giant Aon. Keatron Evans, principal security researcher, Infosec Institute.

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Cybersecurity Government Ransomware Compliance 205

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 26, 2023

CIAM in insurance: A unified, secure user experience with a single login madhav Fri, 05/26/2023 - 07:33 In recent years, the insurance industry has transformed from a singularly focused entity to a multi-brand or multi-service type of business. Adding value to the user experience (a top priority for 59% of insurers) 2.

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Insurance Digital transformation Security Authentication 71