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Cybersecurity Threat Vectors in the Office (and the Remote Office!)
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...
An underwriter view of the WSJ article “The Ins and Outs of Cybersecurity Insurance”
In an article published by the Wall Street Journal on June 4 titled “The Ins and Outs of Cybersecurity Insurance,” one thing is clear: there’s a need to demystify cyber insurance and underwriting. The insurance community needs to continue to be vocal and repetitive...
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...
WFH Cybersecurity Recommendations During COVID-19
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 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...
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 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...
Building Resilient Relationships with Sean Gremillion
October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month. As part of our efforts to raise awareness, the Resilience team will be sharing stories all month long about how we got involved in cyber insurance and what awareness means to us. Today we’re chatting with Sean...
Resilience Starts with Ransomware
When Resilience decided to enter the insurance market, it was because we saw an opportunity to bring together our team’s unique expertise in the dual pillars of cybersecurity and underwriting to secure organizations against evolving digital threats. Nowhere is this...
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...
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...
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...