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Cyber liability insurance helps organisations cover the financial costs of a data breach. It’s essential for any business that wishes to adequately prepare for disruptive incidents. Without insurance, organisations spend £3.6 million on average recovering from security incidents. That includes the costs associated with incident detection, notifying affected individuals and remediation. Plus, organisations will typically suffer lasting reputational damage that could lead to lost business. By purchasing cyber liability insurance, organisations gain the resources they…

Integrated solution offers enterprises modern regulatory compliance safeguards while simplifying corporate legal protection practices Sunnyvale, Calif., August 23, 2022 – Proofpoint, Inc., a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, today announced the launch of its Intelligent Compliance Platform, offering enterprises modern regulatory compliance safeguards while simplifying corporate legal protection practices. The platform leverages Proofpoint’s proprietary machine learning engine to provide business leaders with AI-powered collection, classification, detection, prevention, search, eDiscovery, supervision, and next generation predictive analytics while…

With the range and volume of responsibilities they must shoulder, every CIO aims for maximum efficiency in their work. After all, efficient IT leaders are better positioned to avoid mistakes while achieving key goals rapidly and effectively. Efficient CIOs also work hard to generate maximum business value, an attribute that management colleagues are sure to notice and appreciate. Being efficient means producing high-quality, sustainable, and expected outcomes on time and on budget, says Christopher Kowalsky,…

The US healthcare industry is undergoing rapid digital transformation. With a focus on patient care, cost savings, and scalable innovation, healthcare organizations in the US are adopting a range of emerging technologies to improve patient experiences, to aid clinicians in their jobs, and to compete with digital entities entering the market. But laying a digital foundation for the future presents unique challenges in the healthcare industry. Most healthcare organizations are currently reliant on a range…

The percentage of media companies susceptible to compromise is double the figure across all other sectors, according to a new study from BlueVoyant. The security vendor used its tools to perform a cybersecurity posture analysis on 485 organizations from the media industry to compile its Media Industry Cybersecurity Challenges report. It found that 30% of those analyzed are exposed to compromise via vulnerabilities in their internet-facing, publicly accessible footprints. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities could lead…

The vast majority (80%) of ransomware attacks can be traced back to common configuration errors in software and devices, according to Microsoft. The tech giant’s latest Cyber Signals report focuses on the ransomware as a service (RaaS) model, which it claims has democratized the ability to launch attacks to groups “without sophistication or advanced skills.” Some RaaS programs now have over 50 affiliate groups on their books, Microsoft claimed. For defenders, a key challenge is…

Cyber-criminals are increasingly hijacking home IP addresses to hide credential stuffing activity and increase their chances of success, the FBI has warned. Credential stuffing is a popular method of account takeover whereby attackers use large lists of breached username/password ‘combos’ and try them across numerous sites and apps simultaneously to see if they work. As many individuals reuse their credentials, they often do. Working credentials can then be sold to others for initial access. The FBI…

One type of infrastructure that has gained popularity is hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI). Interest in HCI and other hybrid technologies such as Azure Arc is growing as enterprise organizations embrace hybrid and multi-cloud environments as part of their digital transformation initiatives. Survey data from IDC shows broad HCI adoption among enterprises of all sizes, with more than 80% of the organizations surveyed planning to move toward HCI for their core infrastructure going forward. “Hyperconverged infrastructure has…

Alors que les cyberattaques se multiplient contre les entreprises énergétiques occidentales, Hydro-Québec vient de réaliser une première mondiale : un « confinement électrique ». Pendant quatre heures, la société d’État s’est complètement détachée du web et d’Internet sans interrompre ses services. Un exercice rassurant pour sa clientèle québécoise, mais aussi pour le Nouveau-Brunswick, l’Ontario, la Nouvelle-Angleterre et l’État de New York – pour qui elle assure jusqu’à 15 % de la consommation d’électricité. Où et quand a eu lieu…

Following increasing numbers of cyberattacks on Western energy companies, Hydro-Québec decided to conduct a world-first “electrical containment” exercise this summer. For four hours, the state-owned company managed to completely isolate itself from the internet without sustaining any service failure. A reassuring exercise for its customers in Québec but also for those in New Brunswick, Ontario, New England, and New York State – where it fulfills up to 15% of power needs. Where and when did…