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Cyber threat landscape growing, potential for emergence of destruction of service attacks: Cisco
July 20, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterThe potential for “destruction of service” (DeOS) attacks is greatly concerning and organizations would be well-advised to adopt a proactive cyber stance in their protection efforts to combat increasingly sophisticated attackers, warns a new report from Cisco. “Cyber incidents such…
Multi-factor authentication central to helping reduce data breaches: Ostertag
July 4, 2017 by Angela StelmakowichTaking a multi-layered approach to cyber security – including authentication – is likely the most important single thing to help combat access that then results in data breaches, David Ostertag, global investigation manager for Verizon’s investigative response unit, advised last…
Gains, losses in efforts to combat cyber crime in 2016: Trustwave
June 20, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterThe fight against cyber crime showed both advances and retreats in 2016, with improvements on the intrusion detection and breach containment fronts matched by cyber crime increasingly being treated as a business, suggests a Trustwave report released Tuesday. Findings in…
Investments to fight cyber breaches must include technology, people and risk transfer: WTW cyber head
April 24, 2017 Angela StelmakowichPHILADELPHIA – Considering human risk is essential when determining how best to combat data breaches and associated costs, but the human element is routinely overshadowed by technology in organizational efforts to bolster cyber security, says Anthony Dagostino, global head of…
Cyber Aware
April 1, 2017 Hershel Sahian, Partner; and Andrew Cottreau, Student-At-Law, Hughes Amys LLPCyber crime is on the rise. A study released by Juniper Research in mid-2015 projected that by 2019, the global cost of cyber crime will reach more than US$2 trillion, increasing to almost four times the estimated cost of breaches…
Coverage for Social Engineering Fraud Takes its Place Among the Required Coverage for Canadian Business
January 23, 2017 David S. Wilson, partner; Chris McKibbin, partner; and Zack Garcia, associate, Fidelity Practice Group, Blaney McMurtry LLPStandard crime insurance policies are not intended to cover social engineering fraud
Increased cyber espionage, data integrity attacks part of global threat landscape in 2017: Stroz Friedberg
January 5, 2017 by Canadian UnderwriterTop cyber threats in the coming year include nation state cyber espionage, a rise in data integrity attacks and more attacks harnessing Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Stroz Friedberg, an Aon company, notes in its 2017 Cybersecurity Predictions report. “We…
Organizations must focus more on people, not just technology, to combat privacy breaches: lawyer
October 26, 2016 by Angela StelmakowichThe people component of privacy breaches is critically important, demanding greater focus going forward in light of an environment where both related individual and class actions are on the rise, Patrick Hawkins, a partner with Borden Ladner Gervais LLP suggested…
Seven in 10 polled organizations expect to do away with passwords within five years: U.S. survey
October 14, 2016 by Canadian UnderwriterReliance on largely ineffective traditional authentication techniques is building as efforts to do away with passwords – cited by 69% of polled respondents in the United States – is ebbing, note new survey results from SecureAuth Corporation. Commissioned in conjunction…
Fifth of surveyed U.S. businesses have not done any recent security testing for vulnerabilities
September 15, 2016 by Canadian UnderwriterAbout a fifth of surveyed businesses south of the border admit not having done any security testing for at least six months despite the lion’s share of respondents also reporting their organizations have encountered at least one security issue, notes…
Malware an increasingly efficient, effective way to perpetrate data breaches
June 28, 2016 by Angela StelmakowichEverything is going automatic – and those looking to perpetrate data breaches with malware are no different – emphasizing the need for individuals and organizations to be better prepared to keep the cyber door closed to potential threats. With the…
Nearly half of polled firms with cyber insurance unsure if their policies are up-to-date for covering new attacks
June 7, 2016 by Canadian UnderwriterAlmost half of firms with cyber insurance are unsure if their policy is up-to-date for covering new cyber social engineering attacks, according to research from Mimecast Limited, an email and data security company. Research from the company into the growing…