Darkreading.com reported on FireEye’s “Email Threat Report – Q1 2019” that “FireEye recently analyzed a sample set of 1.3 billion emails for the first three months of 2019 and counted more URL-based email attacks than attachment-based ones in the first quarter…. [and] observed a troubling 26% quarter-over-quarter increase…
Continue Reading 26% increase in malicious URLs in emails and no attachments in Q1 2019!
Darkreading.com reported on a KPMG study about how “CEOs are increasingly paying attention to cybersecurity risks as a part of their overall technology risk profile. In 2018, according to KPMG, just 15% of US CEOs agreed that strong cybersecurity is critical to engender trust with key stakeholders; that percentage shot…
Continue Reading No surprise – 72% of CEOs agree that Cybersecurity is critical!
Darkreading.com reported that “A machine learning model is only as good as the instructions it is given….. As a result, solutions that enable fraud experts, instead of data scientists, to input the initial correlations will deliver results faster in terms of identifying new correlations across different data sets as they’re…
CIO.com reported that “Any organization that stores and maintains customer information or collects online payment information, or uses the cloud, should consider adding cyber insurance to its budget.” The May 4, 2019 article entitled “What is cyber insurance and why you need it” which included these categories of…
Continue Reading Duh! Every Company That Uses the Cloud Needs Cyberinsurance
My good friend Judy Greenwald reported in BusinessInsurance.com that “based on National Association of Insurance Commissioners statutory filings, found that while the number of insurers offering cyber increased to 184 from 170, premiums grew by 10.3%, to $2.03 billion.” The June 11, 2019 report entitled “Growth in insurers’ cyber…
Continue Reading Aon reports an increase in cyberinsurance premiums of $2.03 Billion in 2018!
Darkreading.com reported on Cofense Phishing Defense Center analysis of 31,429 malicious emails between October 2018 and March 2019 and that cybercriminals use “Subtle tactics like changing file types, or using shortened URLs, are giving hackers a hand.” The June 4, 2019 reported entitled “How Today’s Cybercriminals Sneak into…
Continue Reading Big Surprise – Cybercriminals Continue Successfully to Sneak into your Inbox!
Darkreading.com reported that the “…CISO is a “must have” position” in the results of a survey of “400 C-suite executives from enterprises across the UK and USA” and of course that “C-level executives say that a cyber security breach is inevitable.” The June 3, 2019 report entitled “Majority of…
Continue Reading No Surprise that 76% of C-level Executives think the CISO is Critical!
Darkreading.com reported that “As cybercrime continues to rise, cyber insurance has businesses reconsidering their coverage. Organizations faced with a decision to take out coverage need to find space in the budget for monthly costs and potentially large premiums.” The May 30, 2019 report entitled “Caveat Emptor: Calculating the…
Continue Reading No Surprise – Cyberinsurance Impacted by Cyberattacks!
Computerworld reported that “Amazon Managed Blockchain offers a range of instances with different combinations of compute and memory capacity to give customers the ability to choose the right mix of resources for their blockchain applications. The service secures certificates for access control using AWS Key Management Service technology, eliminating the…
Continue Reading No surprise that Amazon is using Blockchain as a Service (BaaS)!
Bleepingcomputer.com reported that the “Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a set of best practices designed to help organizations to mitigate risks and vulnerabilities associated with migrating their email services to Microsoft Office 365.” The May 13, 2019 report entitled “U.S. Govt Issues Microsoft Office 365 Security Best…
