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Nov 29th, 2021
The Cybercrime Pandemic: Tackling The Workplace
As the COVID-19 pandemic gradually begins to ease, another global crisis rages unabated: cybercrime. In the US, the FBI’s cybersecurity in-tray is overflowing, with a 69% increase in complaints be
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Aug 10th, 2021
The Insurance Industry’s Saving Grace: Automated Cyber Risk Quantification
The emergence of sophisticated attacks, particularly ransomware, has placed a cloud over the cyber insurance market. As a result, in recent years, more firms have sought insurance protection to transf
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Aug 4th, 2021
A Three-Pronged Approach to Government Security
The increase of ransomware attacks over recent years has cast a spotlight on the need for governments to adopt a risk-based approach to cybersecurity. Adam Vincent, Co-Founder, and CEO at ThreatConnec
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Aug 4th, 2021
Long Overdue Conversation About Risk
A recent cyberattack targeting the world’s largest meat processor, JBS, points to a disturbing new reality: our nations’ critical infrastructures and supply chains are being targeted because they
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Jul 23rd, 2021
Cybersecurity Dive: Engineers need cybersecurity training, too
When companies think about cybersecurity training, they often focus on employees outside technology. But for organizations in critical infrastructure, it’s the engineers who are at the frontline
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Jun 29th, 2021
Adopting A Risk-Based Approach To Government Security
‘Governments should adopt comprehensive cybersecurity’ The SolarWinds hack of the software supply chain, as well as the recent ransomware attack against Colonial Pipeline, the critical e
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Jun 28th, 2021
Quantifying The Financial Impact Of Cyber Risk
The growth in ransomware and other cyber attacks has revealed a hidden truth about the state of cyber security in the United States: Our nation’s critical infrastructures and supply chains are falli
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Jun 25th, 2021
Colonial Pipeline: Inherent Flaws in the National Cybersecurity Strategy
Miles Tappin, VP of EMEA at ThreatConnect, explores why the recent Colonial Pipeline ransomware attack has exposed a significant weakness in the US national cybersecurity strategy The recent ransomwar
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Jun 25th, 2021
Modern Threat Intelligence Must Speak the Language of Business
Companies often suffer from a disconnect between their cybersecurity team and other departments across the organization. But with cybersecurity becoming an increasingly vital part of board-level discu
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Jun 3rd, 2021
Dark Reading: The Colonial Pipeline Ransomware Attack Is Your Boardroom Wake-Up Call
The ransomware attack against the Colonial Pipeline system occurred almost 17 years to the day after I testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Terrorism, Technology, and Homeland Security on cyb
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Apr 2nd, 2021
The importance of quantifying cyber risk
Most businesses don’t know their exposure to cyber events until it’s too late, according to this piece published by Security InfoWatch on April 1, 2021. Authored by ThreatConnect Vice Presiden
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Apr 2nd, 2021
SolarWinds attack and the importance of a risk-based approach to cybersecurity
On April 1, 2021, Federal News Network published commentary by ThreatConnect Director of Content Dan Verton on the importance of a risk-based security strategy in the aftermath of the SolarWinds breac