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Jul 23rd, 2021
Q&A: Felicia Thorpe of AHT Insurance on Cyber Insurance and Cyber Risk Quantification
During a recent ThreatConnect webinar, Felicia Thorpe, Managing Advisor at AHT Insurance, offered her insights on the latest trends in the cyber insurance market and changes that need to be considered
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Jul 14th, 2021
Big Changes are Coming to the Cyber Insurance Industry
The surge in ransomware and other advanced cyber attacks during the last 18 months has led to significant changes in the way insurance carriers approach cyber policies and those changes are far from o
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Jun 21st, 2021
Cyber-Risk Quantification is the Icing on the Cake for Security Frameworks
Today, we thought we would have a little fun talking about security frameworks and how cyber risk quantification is the missing ingredient you need to cook up more mature security models. Security f
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Jun 8th, 2021
Risk Calculations Require Cyber Threat Intelligence
Businesses seeking to understand their risk exposure need to realize that they can’t adequately quantify risk without cyber threat intelligence on the capabilities, intentions, and most frequent
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Jun 7th, 2021
Why Effective Cybersecurity Narratives Are Built Using Quantitative Metrics
As the world begins to get the global coronavirus pandemic under control, cybersecurity concerns are increasing. Attackers continue to build increasingly sophisticated capabilities, deploying them in
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Jun 4th, 2021
How Risk Quantification Gives Your Security Team A Leg Up in Patch Management
Two of the major challenges facing most Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are patch management and alert prioritization. However, many organizations struggle with the complexity of keeping up-to-date
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Jun 1st, 2021
Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructures Forcing Long Overdue Conversations About Risk
A cyberattack targeting the world’s largest meat processor over the weekend is pointing to a disturbing new reality: Our nation’s critical infrastructures and supply chains are being targeted beca
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Jun 1st, 2021
3 Reasons The Insurance Industry Desperately Needs Automated Cyber Risk Quantification
The cyber insurance industry is in turmoil as more and more businesses seek insurance protection against the onslaught of advanced threats, particularly ransomware, while both carriers and those seeki
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May 24th, 2021
Inside The Business Benefits of Automated Cyber Risk Quantification
Many businesses may have heard of cyber risk quantification (CRQ), but most businesses still don’t know what their exposure is to any given cyber event. And how could they when their security teams
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May 10th, 2021
Pipeline Ransomware Attack Underscores Urgent Need for Risk-Based, Automated Decision Support
The ransomware attack on Saturday against the Colonial Pipeline company not only shut down operations across one of the nation’s most important 5,500-mile energy infrastructures but it exposed a maj
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May 7th, 2021
Cyber Execs Warn CISOs Could Disappear If They Don’t Get Better at Communicating Risk
Three leading global chief information security officers (CISOs) with a wide range of experience across different industries warned that if CISOs do not improve their ability to communicate cyber risk
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Apr 13th, 2021
Inside The Lean Six Sigma of Cybersecurity
Some of the greatest companies in the world have embraced the Lean Six Sigma process improvement methodology to eliminate errors, remove waste and inefficiency, and improve operational performance. At