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Can multi-factor authentication beat smarter cybercriminals?

July 26, 2022 Jason Contant

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is becoming a standard requirement to obtain cyber insurance. But just as your clients are improving their insurability, cybercriminals too are designing their attacks around MFA. “It’s kind of like a game of Whack-a-Mole,” said Neal Jardine,

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July 1, 2022 BOXX Insurance

The largest city in Canada and Ontario’s capital is an international business centre for finance, business, arts, and culture and now has a thriving start-up tech sector and ‘insurtech’ is a fast-growing component. Not many know that Toronto has been

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The future of cyber-security: MFA and beyond

June 17, 2022 by Jason Contant

Here’s some cyber security advice for your clients: time to install multi-factor authentication (MFA). In the future, that advice may morph to: Please send us a scan of all your tech vulnerabilities, so we can see what cybercriminals see. As

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Why multi-factor authentication isn’t the cure-all for your client’s cyber woes

April 21, 2022 by Jason Contant

Staying one step ahead of cybercriminals seems to be a never-ending battle for insurers and insureds, cyber experts said during an industry event Wednesday. “The problem is, as we increase our cyber hygiene and become better insureds, the criminals adapt

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Canadian cyber MGA looking for carrier partners for international expansion

October 5, 2021 by Greg Meckbach

Canadian managing general agent BOXX Insurance Inc. is about to set up an office in Miami and is looking for carriers to underwrite its cyber coverages outside of Canada. Toronto-based BOXX announced last week it is expanding to the United

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CEOs becoming easy targets of ‘spear-phishing’: cyber insurance provider

August 3, 2021 Canadian Underwriter Staff

With C-Suite email credentials sold on the dark web for as little as $250 per user, Canadian CEOs could become increasing targets for “spear-phishing” attacks, a cyber insurance provider warns. The digital scam involves sending fraudulent emails from what appears