NetDiligence® Security Advisory – May 14th, 2017WannaCry/WannaCrypt Exploit Protection Tips This NetDiligence Security Advisory is published for the benefit of our cyber insurance carrier/broker clients and their insureds. We urge clients to take special note of the details included in this Advisory and take preventative/remedial action on a timely basis. Clients are welcomed to distribute…

A Q&A with: Navid Jam, director of security consulting services at Mandiant. Daimon Geopfert, national leader of security and privacy consulting at RSM. Darin Bielby, managing director of disputes and investigations at Navigant Bill Hardin, vice president of forensics services at Charles River Associates Jason Smolanoff, managing director, global practice leader of cyber security and…

A Q&A with Ashwin Kashyap of Symantec On the long—and growing—list of cyber security concerns that keep risk managers up at night are business interruption due to denial of service attacks and the profound vulnerabilities in the Internet of Things. I asked Ashwin Kashyap, director of product management for Symantec, about these risks, the company’s…

A Q&A with Ondrej Krehel of LIFARS Even as users become more educated about phishing attacks, attackers continue to up the ante, producing new and more credible-looking ways of tricking people into sharing personal information. I spoke with Ondrej Krehel, eRiskHub® security coach and CEO and founder at LIFARS about the latest round of phishing…

A Q&A with Ted Charney of Charney Lawyers In November, 2016, Canadian Casino Rama Resort announced it had been hacked, with both employee and vendor data stolen. Shortly after, Toronto-based Ted Charney of Charney Lawyers filed a $50 million class action suit.

 Guest Author: Dane Greisiger A Q&A with Summer Han and Martin Zhang of Adbug Most of the cyber risk companies deal with internet facing data is quantifiable. But digital advertising poses another significant problem for global organizations that have not done due diligence. To understand more about this specific kind of threat, I spoke with Summer…

A Q&A with Doug Meal The brave new world of cyber liability got a lot more complicated last May. That’s when the Jetro Holdings LLC v MasterCard Inc. case held that if a card brand withholds merchant funds to satisfy the brand’s PCI fines and assessments following a data breach, the merchant has no legal…

A Q&A with Alice Kane and Philip Goldstein of Duane Morris, LLP Acknowledging the degree to which cyber theft poses a threat to the insurance industry, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued a proposed cybersecurity regulation in September. We talked to Alice Kane and Philip Goldstein, attorneys at Duane Morris, LLP about…

 Guest Author: Dane Greisiger A Q&A with Patrick Florer and Heather Goodnight-Hoffmann The annual NetDiligence® Cyber Claims Study examines reported claims by leading insurers to assess the true costs of data breaches. As we unveil the 2016 study, I spoke with Patrick Florer and Heather Goodnight-Hoffmann of Risk Centric Security who compiled the data and analyzed…

A Q&A with Bob Bell and Luke Emrich of RSM US; Sudhir Bhati of Symantec; and Ondrej Krehel of LIFARS Once a crude way for hackers to gain access to sensitive data, phishing attempts have now become increasingly sophisticated and more commonplace. Most concerning, this attack vector relies almost completely on human error, making it…