It’s widely acknowledged that employees are a company’s biggest asset and also one of the largest risk areas when it comes to cybersecurity at work. How can these threats impact the overall security level of your organization and which threat vectors are the biggest...
Tips for Staying Cybersecure This Cyber Monday
With many shoppers eschewing in-person stores this year due to Covid-19, experts are predicting that Cyber Monday and the entire online holiday shopping season will see record amounts of traffic. Before you hit Add to Cart, make sure that your personal cybersecurity...
What is Multi-factor Authentication (MFA)?
The most important recommendation we give our clients, partners, and insureds is enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) to prevent cybersecurity incidents. What is multi-factor authentication? MFA is the process of requiring multiple “factors” in order to gain...
The Role of Insurance in Fighting Systemic Cyber Risk
How much has failing to solve the cybersecurity challenge cost us? Is it between $57 billion and $109 billion in the US?[1] Is it $600 billion globally?[2] Or is it $6 trillion by 2020?[3] Regardless of the exact figure, we know the cost is growing. The result of...
Protect Your Organization From W2 Scams
Today is International Data Privacy Day. A day identified to highlight just how important data protection is in our daily lives and how vulnerable we can be if not vigilant on the daily tasks we have before us. January also happens to be the beginning of tax season...
Report: Unmet Insurance Needs and Cyber Security Tools Among CISOs
How CISOs are Responding to Shifting Priorities during COVID -- 77% of CISOs identified incidents that they feel they need cyber coverage for and report being unable to get it Since the stay-at-home orders first started in March, Chief Information Security Officers...
COVID-19’s Likely Impact on Cyber Insurance Claims
We are committed to the health, security, and resilience of our families, clients, and colleagues as together we face down the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. As ever, our work from home services are available 24/7 to help you assess, respond, and recover from...
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...
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...
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...