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The Evolving Role of Cyber Insurance in Mitigating Ransomware Attacks

SecureWorld News

In this regard, many have touted cyber insurance as the knight in shining armor, the end all-be all in terms of mitigating criminals' assaults on your network. Here, cyber insurance serves as an invaluable safety net by offering essential financial coverage and support services in the event of a ransomware attack occurring.

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What Do CIOs Need To Know About Cyber Insurance?

The Accidental Successful CIO

When you are the CIO, you deal with things like servers, networks, firewalls and the like. You are not generally called on to deal with other business related issues such as insurance. The problem is that cyber insurance is new and it raises more questions than it answers. What Needs To Be Covered? So what needs to be covered?

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The Cyber Insurance Landscape Has Grown More Complicated

SecureWorld News

When considering adding a cyber insurance policy, organizations, both public and private, must weigh the pros and cons of having insurance to cover against harm caused by a cybersecurity incident. Compliance: Certain industries and jurisdictions require organizations to have cyber insurance or to meet certain cybersecurity standards.

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A Cyberattack Allegedly Knocked Insurance Giant CNA Offline

Gizmodo

CNA Financial, one of the largest insurance providers in the U.S., is currently experiencing widespread network disruptions. Read more.

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Insurance broker Simply Business ditches legacy MPLS for SD-WAN

Computer Weekly

Insurance business finds networking a breeze after ditching its unresponsive managed services provider and implementing VeloCloud’s latest software-defined wide area network technology

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Essential things to know about container networking

Network World

Networking has emerged as a critical element within the container ecosystem, providing connectivity between containers running on the same host as well as on different hosts, says Michael Letourneau, an IT architect at Liberty Mutual Insurance.

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Atlantic Health streamlines insurance authorization with intelligent automation

CIO Business Intelligence

“The pandemic and the aging population and growing population really put very high stress on every healthcare system, and Atlantic Health was no exception,” says Sunil Dadlani, chief information and digital officer and chief cybersecurity officer at the New Jersey-based nonprofit healthcare network. Atlantic Health serves a population of 6.2

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