Breaches aren’t completely avoidable, even with good security measures in place. A zero-day vulnerability are easy to find, for example. You’ll never get ahead of the hackers. But there are a lot of simple controls that aren’t implemented that cause...
Many business owners and executives have no idea what they would do if their company’s network was breached. Insurance carriers are now offering an assortment of breach response tools to mitigate the impact should a breach occur, including forensics, public relations...
Insurance agents need to be very thorough when discussing cyber insurance coverages with their clients, making sure to ask the right questions. Failure to correctly assess a client’s cyber risk exposures is a risk to the insurance agents E&O. Agents need to guide...
Nearly all the states have breach notification laws, requiring a business that’s been hacked to notify persons whose sensitive information may have been compromised. The costs of notification can be extremely high. Estimates vary widely, but range from about...
