Cyber insurance

The Critical Role of Frontline Cyber Defenses in Insurance Adoption

Cybersecurity, cyber insurance, and ransomware are closely connected, with both security and insurance providers focused on reducing the business impact of ransomware, one of the biggest threats facing organizations today. To understand the reality of this three-way relationship in 2023, Sophos has conducted new research into cyber insurance adoption, the role of cyber defenses in

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2023 Cyber Predictions and Insurance Implications

Foreword – Cyber insurance must evolve 2023 presents an opportunity, or perhaps more realistically, a requirement for organisations, directors and officers to properly understand, mitigate and invest in cyber-security risk. This will be achieved through education, mitigation, and risk transfer. Gone are the days of “being targeted”, with the increasing indiscriminate targeting of software and

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The State of Ransomware in State and Local Government 2022

Findings from an independent, vendor-agnostic survey of 5,600 IT professionals in mid-sized organizations across 31 countries, including 199 respondents from the state and local government sector. Introduction Sophos’ annual study of the real-world ransomware experiences of IT professionals in the state and local government sector has revealed an ever more challenging attack environment. Together with

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The State of Ransomware in Education 2022

Findings from an independent, vendor-agnostic survey of 5,600 IT professionals in mid-sized organizations across 31 countries, including 730 respondents from the education sector. Introduction Sophos’ annual study of the real-world ransomware experiences of IT professionals in the education sector has revealed an ever more challenging attack environment together with the growing financial and operational burden

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Understanding the potential fall-out from the ongoing Microsoft Exchange attacks

Using CyberCube data to highlight industries and regions that are most at risk CyberCube has analyzed over 20 million companies within our Enterprise Intelligence Layer (EIL) to create heat maps highlighting the industries and geographies most at risk of exploitation in the ongoing cyber attacks targeting Microsoft Exchange servers around the world. Attackers are actively

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Social Engineering: Blurring reality and fake – A guide for the insurance professional

Deception and disguise are criminal methods that are as old as time. Numerous examples – from Ulysses and his Trojan Horse in Greek Mythology, to Fagan, the pickpocket, in Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist – reinforce the long history of criminals achieving their goals by hoodwinking targets into believing that an interaction is something that it

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