You’re scrambling to figure out how to plug in your laptop in the only room of the house your kids can’t break into during your conference call, when it hits you. A text message from a colleague with a number you don’t recognize asking you for a weird bit of...
The New Reality: Remote Work Exposes Businesses to Cybercrime
The rapid emergence of COVID-19 has driven an unprecedented level of remote work for corporate enterprises, their employees, teachers, students and even medical professionals as telehealth has become necessary. Even if some worked from home occasionally, most have...
The Rise in Ransomware During COVID-19
I spoke with Steph S from Terbium Labs on “The Rise in Ransomware: What Steps to Take to Reduce Risk and Respond to an Attack” on May 7, 2020. Thanks to those who attended! And for those that didn’t, the recording is available on the Terbium Labs' website. During the...
The Implications of Post-COVID Tech Trends on National Security
COVID IS ACCELERATING CHANGES THAT COULD BLUR THE LINES BETWEEN CYBERSECURITY AND NATIONAL SECURITY. We find ourselves in a digital world of disappearing boundaries and increasing speed. Today, most government agencies, companies, and organizations still run their own...
Building a Cyber Strategy with Killian Brady
For our last personal story of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month we’re speaking with Killian Brady, Resilience’s Vice President of Insurance, who reminds us that it always comes down to people, process, and technology (people first!). What brought you to...
Cyber Awareness from an Underwriting Perspective with Samantha Disabella
Cybersecurity and cyber insurance can, at times, feel overly impersonal but at their heart, they are industries fueled by actual people. The Resilience team will be sharing personal stories from our team all month long as part of National Cybersecurity Awareness...
Creating Tools for Resilience with Vic Marchetti
Awareness goes beyond tips so as part of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the Resilience team will be sharing personal stories of how we got our start in cyber insurance and what keeps us passionate about helping our customers! Today we’re chatting with Vic...
Going Beyond “Don’t click on that link!” – Best Practices for Cyber Resilience
Keeping yourself and your organization cybersecure can feel like an uphill battle in the face of an ever changing landscape of threats but the good news is that there are certain easy to learn behaviors security experts use that can shore up security before and after...
10 Cybersecurity Terms to Build Resilience (Plus a Bonus!)
Cybersecurity and cyber risk can be both overwhelming and intimidating but they don't have to be. At Resilience, we believe that education and transparency can help level the playing field when it comes to cybersecurity and help everyone - from CISOs to brokers to...
BlueKeep: We’re Watching
The BlueKeep vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) was identified in Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol in May of 2019. This vulnerability, although only present in older versions of Windows is particularly concerning to enterprises because RDP is exposed to the internet...
Four Steps to Improve Your Cyber Risk Management
The Wall Street Journal recently posted an article on anticipated increases in cybersecurity spending for defensive techniques and tools in 2020. The article captures a disheartening reality considering that small and midsize companies often just buy a tool, rather...
Black Hat 2019 from the cyber insurance lens
Having long lost its “cool” factor to DEFCON, every year Black Hat is turning more and more into the security “trade show” that RSA has long been, but with a threat research and security policy bend. This, however, still makes it much more of a forward looking preview...