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Cyber criminals, state-sponsored hackers and even the occasional disgruntled employee are constantly looking to gain unauthorized access for a variety of purposes: theft of money, cyber espionage, personal information for sale or for use in scams, and damage to critical infrastructure for just a few of the most common.

 

So how does an organization mitigate an entire world full of continual cyber attacks? Just as buildings have a number of necessary elements of physical security: access control, cameras, alarms and so on; there are similar key elements of cyber security that are absolutely vital for just about any modern business.

 

It starts with identifying and closing the most common doors that attackers use. For example, phishing attacks on employees are far and away the most common initial point of entry. The breach of even a low-level employee account can quickly turn into an escalation in access privileges and the ability to reach sensitive information. This is also true of smart devices, which are generally more poorly secured than computers and phones.

 

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Cyber SecurityNews

Cyber Insurance Claim Count Led by Fund Transfer Fraud, But Ransomware Remains Most Expensive Cost

December 28, 2022
36% of Corvus claims were related to fund transfer fraud in Q3 2022, hitting an all-time high and outpacing ransomware for the first time in a long time. Ransomware cyber insurance claims remain the most costly per incident, however.
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Cyber SecurityNews

Cyber Insurance Claims Spike With Major Attacks, but Ransomware Costs Down Sharply From 2020

November 15, 2021
A new report indicates that ransomware costs are being cut considerably due to better preparedness. And though cyber insurance claims spiked in early 2021 due to the Microsoft Exchange vulnerability, they have been on a steep downward trend since.
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Cyber SecurityNews

Cyber Insurance Cost Spikes Continue in UK as Annual Numbers Triple

November 18, 2025
A new report from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) has tallied up the cyber insurance claims from 2024 and found that payout numbers more than tripled from those recorded in 2023, with a 230% year-on-year increase.
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Cyber SecurityNews

Cyber Insurance Firm Suffers Sophisticated Ransomware Cyber Attack; Data Obtained May Help Hackers Better Target Firm’s Customers

April 5, 2021
Cyber insurance firm CNA Financial potentially leaked clients’ data after being the victim of a sophisticated cyber attack that disrupted services. Data obtained may help hackers optimize targeting of firm’s customers.
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Cyber SecurityNews

Cyber Insurance Gets a Boost with Cyber Risk Benchmarking Model

January 5, 2018
AIG releases new cyber risk benchmarking model to quantify and score cyber maturity of clients, boosting cyber insurance and promoting metrics useful for the industry to evaluate the risks that organizations face in terms of cyber security.
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Cyber SecurityInsights

Cyber Insurance Is a Perfect Storm: Risk Quantification Can Rescue It

March 9, 2022
Cyber insurers have struggled to assess and quantify the risk they are underwriting. The only way the cyber insurance industry will be able to support the market's growing demand is through trust and transparency built upon quantifying digital risk through sound data science principles.
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Cyber SecurityNews

Cyber Insurance Not Valid in Case of Cyber War, Says Major Insurance Company

January 17, 2019
In what is shaping up to be a major test case for the entire cyber insurance industry, Zurich Insurance is refusing to pay out a $100 million claim from Mondelez, saying that the ransomware attack was actually an act of “cyber war,” and therefore, is not covered by the policy.
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Cyber SecurityInsights

Cyber Insurance Now Critical for Public Sector Agencies?

November 29, 2017
The private sector is increasingly turning to cyber insurance to at least mitigate some of the effects of hacking, however governments across the globe seem to have been slow to take advantage. Given the severity of the cyber threats, is it time for public sector agencies to leverage cyber insurance offerings?
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Woman using calculator to calculate bills showing how the cyber insurance payouts are encouraging more ransomware attacks
Cyber SecurityNews

Cyber Insurance Payouts Are Only Encouraging More Ransomware Attacks

October 1, 2019
Cyber insurance companies are choosing to settle things quickly with a ransom payment during ransomware attacks for fear of covering all the business interruption costs and delays of re-booting a company from scratch.
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Cyber SecurityNews

Cyber Insurance Providers Now Incentivizing Clients to Buy From Specific Vendors

October 28, 2019
Cyber insurance providers will now incentivize clients to buy cybersecurity services and products under the new Marsh Cyber Catalyst program with first group of 17 services added this September.
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