What will regulators be focused on in the near and medium-term future? Attorney Phil Yannella breaks down some of the immediate issues in data privacy legislation and regulation.

As the insurance industry looks to understand and manage the risks, costs, and repercussions of war, it’s important to bring in as much information from the outside world as possible.

The COVID-19 outbreak has necessitated the creation of a mobile workforce practically overnight. Yet this sudden change raises cybersecurity and privacy issues that companies must now reckon with. The webinar “COVID-19 Emerging Issues: Managing Cyber Risks of a Remote Workforce and Global Privacy Concerns,” presented by NetDiligence and Arete Incident Response on March 24th, addressed…

As IT systems and data play increasingly important roles in business, opportunities for cybercriminals continue to grow. For the first time, the annual Allianz Risk Barometer Report found cybercrime to be the number one concern for companies around the globe. The increase in concern over cybercrime coincides with a rise in the number of ransomware…

A Q&A with Matthew Cherian of BitSightThird party data security risk continues to grow and even mature enterprises struggle to contain this unwieldy challenge. For cyber insurers, it’s becoming increasingly urgent to find better tools for assessing third party vendor risk when underwriting for a policy. To learn more about why and how this should…

A Q&A with Chris Pierson, CEO of BLACKCLOAK Increasingly, cyber criminals target corporate executives and high net worth individuals not inside their well protected work environments, but at home, where they are most vulnerable. We spoke with Dr. Chris Pierson, CEO of BLACKCLOAK about the risks organizations face, and how they can better defend targeted…

A Q&A with Douglas Clare of FICOA joint effort between FICO and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the Assessment of Business Cybersecurity (ABC) offers a benchmark for analyzing the security readiness of American business against cyber attack. When the first quarterly installment was released in late 2018, the construction industry scored highest among the reviewed…

 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…

 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…