Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 10, 2022

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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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 22, 2022

That’s where cyber insurance may be able to help. For that reason, most experts now recognize that a complete cybersecurity strategy not only includes technological solutions aimed at preventing, detecting, and mitigating attacks, it should also include cyber insurance to help manage the associated financial risks. That’s a 29.1%

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IBM Big Data Hub

JUNE 23, 2023

Although interest rates have increased at an unprecedented rate over the past year due to efforts by central banks to curb inflation, insurers are locked into low-yielding investments, and it will take several years for their investment yields to improve. Core modernization (processes and technology) is a top priority for every insurer.

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Insurance Cloud Digital transformation Customer Experience 61

IT Governance

OCTOBER 15, 2020

That’s why they organisations increasingly relying on cyber insurance policies to cover the costs when data breaches and cyber attacks occur. But just how helpful is cyber insurance? What is cyber insurance? How does cyber insurance work? What does a cyber insurance policy cover? Who needs cyber insurance?

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KnowBe4

MAY 22, 2023

Food for thought as discussed on May 18, 2023, an article posted in The Australian Insurance Council: Banning paying a ransom to cyber hackers is counter-productive where Andrew Hall, the Chief Executive of the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA), stated that “attempts to ban businesses from paying ransoms for cyber attacks risks eroding trust and (..)

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As insurers become more educated on what a “secure organization” looks like, they are tightening their requirements that puts the onus on organizations to be more secure.

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Insurance Education Security Security awareness 103

KnowBe4

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The latest data shows that historically massive rate increases seen over the last few years are beginning to come down, primarily due to insurers having a solid understanding of the risk.

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KnowBe4

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Recent attacks are helping cyber insurers better understand what security strategies need to be in place and how to price policies based on the risk those policies cover.

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Insurance Risk Security Security awareness 103

Rocket Software

MARCH 14, 2022

Analyst firm IDC recently published a Vendor Spotlight report featuring ASG Mobius Content Services (Mobius) and its applications in the financial service and insurance industries. IDP Trends in the Financial and Insurance Industries. Challenges to Effective IDP.

Financial Services 82

Financial Services Insurance Digital transformation Paper 82

KnowBe4

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Analysis of the year’s breaches shows Finance and Insurance businesses are the most targeted and have lost a material count of records as a result.

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Insurance Data breaches Security awareness Security 92

Data Matters

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

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.

Insurance 79

Insurance Financial Services Cybersecurity Risk 79

KnowBe4

JUNE 23, 2022

Lawsuits over denied cyber insurance claims provide insight into what you should and shouldn’t expect from your policy – and that actions by your own users may make the difference.

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Insurance Authentication Security awareness Security 91

Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 2, 2019

New cybersecurity rules for insurance companies licensed in South Carolina are set to take effect in part on January 1, 2019. The new law is the first in the United States to be enacted based on the data security model law drafted by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

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IT Governance

JULY 15, 2019

Cyber insurance is big business these days. Damages incurred by information security incidents generally aren’t covered in commercial insurance policies, so a specific policy is necessary to help cover the costs of things like forensic investigation, incident response and notification procedures. Perform staff awareness training.

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Insurance Data breaches Risk Information Security 89

Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

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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Insurance Cybersecurity Risk Education 70

The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

London, July 13, 2023 — Beazley, the leading specialist insurer, today published its latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023. For the insurance industry, working with clients to help them tackle these challenges is vital to ensuring businesses operate in as safe an environment as possible.

Risk 161

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IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2019

In a report published last month , the FCA urged organisations to tackle staff awareness training at all levels, and to ensure the lessons are simple and appropriate to the environment that employees work in. Organisations need to make staff awareness training a board-level priority. Staff awareness training is a crucial part of this.

Retail 66

Retail Risk Education Financial Services 66

Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Submit its training materials to HHS for approval and provide appropriate training to the workforce within 30 days of HHS approval. Distribute policies and procedures to the workforce and collect compliance certifications from all members. Investigate all likely policy violations.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 1, 2022

Since Carnival was licensed by the Department to sell insurance in NY State, it was treated as a covered entity under the Cybersecurity Regulation. In addition to the monetary penalty of $5 million, NYDFS also accepted Carnival’s surrender of its insurance producer license; thus, Carnival has ceased selling insurance in New York.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

DMS is a HIPAA business associate (“BA”) that provides payer credentialing and medical billing services to HIPAA Covered Entities (“CEs”).

Ransomware 72

Ransomware Risk Insurance Encryption 72

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Regular training and simulations can help reduce risks associated with human errors. Regular training and simulations can help reduce risks associated with human errors. What is the role of cybersecurity awareness training for a company’s employees? Regular awareness training for employees is indispensable.

Cybersecurity 190

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KnowBe4

AUGUST 24, 2022

It's great budget ammo for security awareness training. You saw the title and are reading this, so I think you agree. Here is s short extract and I recommend you reading the whole article, link is below.

Insurance 76

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KnowBe4

MARCH 28, 2023

Security awareness training still has a place to play here." New-school security awareness training with simulated phishing tests enables your employees to recognize increasingly sophisticated phishing attacks and builds a strong security culture. Get a look at THREE NEW FEATURES and see how easy it is to train and phish your users.

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Phishing Security awareness Insurance Cybersecurity 87

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 13, 2019

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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Insurance Cybersecurity Data breaches Financial Services 40

Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Norton Rose Fulbright Canada’s cyber litigation team recently obtained an order in favour of an insurer, granting it relief from forfeiture in respect of more than 11 bitcoins from the assets seized from a prolific ransomware gang. [1] Insurers excluded from restitution order.

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IT Governance

MARCH 20, 2024

Better yet, small UK organisations achieving certification could receive cyber insurance with a total liability limit of £25,000 – a substantially higher sum than the cost of implementation for most eligible organisations. Cyber security assessor Ashley Brett provides expert insight into Cyber Essentials in this interview.

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Security Data breaches Government Insurance 116

Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

The NYDFS, which regulates financial institutions including insurance companies, mortgage brokers and banks, adopted the original Cybersecurity Regulation in 2017. In the coming weeks, NYDFS will host an upcoming series of training sessions on the amended Cybersecurity Regulation to help regulated entities plan for compliance.

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Cybersecurity IT Compliance Financial Services 72

KnowBe4

MAY 18, 2022

Whoa Nellie, that's getting to be real money here. This is the kind of thing that starts cutting into your whole IT budget.

Insurance 124

Insurance IT Security awareness Security 124

Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The compromised data included contact details, national insurance numbers and bank account details, as well as special category data, including ethnic origin, religion, details of any disabilities, sexual orientation and health information.

Security 97

Security Personal data GDPR Insurance 97

IT Governance

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Services typically come with a dedicated team of experts, tools, training and support that can be deployed immediately, protecting you from a range of threats. You’ll receive cyber insurance cover ?. Many cyber-security-as-a-service offerings include cyber insurance as part of the package. You’ll save money.

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Security Insurance Data breaches Information Security 131

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

And, let’s be honest , the deceptive writing phishing assaults and other cyber threats today employ are skilled enough to fool even the most trained, internet-savvy experts. A criminal exploiting someone’s medical or insurance details to make fraudulent claims is known as medical identity theft. Ever present threats.

Privacy 267

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KnowBe4

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Menlo Security warns that a social engineering campaign is using the EvilProxy phishing kit to target senior executives across a range of industries, including banking and financial services, insurance, property management and real estate, and manufacturing.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 12, 2022

Cyber Insurer Provides Help. As Spectra Logic had the foresight to take out cyber insurance , Chubb representatives were professional and helpful, according to Mendoza. Chubb set the company up with Ankura, a cybersecurity recovery specialist that has also trained the FBI on cybersecurity. Most had been infected.

Ransomware 132

Ransomware Insurance Cybersecurity Passwords 132

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But right now, pure AI can be programmed for many tasks that require thought and intelligence , as long as that intelligence can be gathered digitally and used to train an AI system. Generative AI can produce high-quality text, images and other content based on the data used for training. We’re all amazed by what AI can do.

Artificial Intelligence 89

Artificial Intelligence Retail Unstructured data Insurance 89

IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The quality of outputs depends heavily on training data, adjusting the model’s parameters and prompt engineering, so responsible data sourcing and bias mitigation are crucial. Imagine training a generative AI model on a dataset of only romance novels. Existing content can be reimagined and edited using AI tools.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2021 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) August 14-17, 2021. Highlights include, among others, adoption of revised risk-based capital bond factors for life insurers, amendments to SSAP No. NAIC Adopts Revised Risk-Based Capital Bond Factors for Life Insurers.

Insurance 88

Insurance e-Delivery Paper Sales 88

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Assessing AI and Security Training. The survey also found almost unanimous faith in the benefits of security awareness training: Fully 96 percent of respondents believe training can bring about long-term, positive changes to their employees’ cybersecurity behavior. What Should Security Buyers Do?

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