Assured Enterprises, Inc., has announced its Pre-breach Cyber Risk Management suite for Reinsurers, Insurance Companies, Captives, Program Administrators, Brokers, Agents, Insureds, Risk Managers, Underwriters, Actuaries, and Data Analysts. With increased pressure to protect data from breach, and the growing list of standards and regulations surrounding cybersecurity, risk bearers know they must address the challenge with …
23 NYCRR 500 New York State Cyber Regulations Another set of regulations, another set of discussions between attorneys and clients, now requiring very detailed insight into what is possible on the market from the cybersecurity engineering world: How to make the response practical, effective and valuable is, of course, the goal. Read this blog to …
Companies are increasingly threatened with financial and reputational fallout from security breaches and compromised sensitive client and customer information, and a growing number of law firms are profiting from advising their unfortunate clients on how to deal with the fallout from cyber-incidents. While some well-known firms—think Cravath, Swaine & Moore and Weil, Gotshal & Manges—have …
A primer on applying NIST and Balridge recommendations and guidelines to your enterprise. In its final form, the [NIST] framework offers a core set of activities to anticipate and mitigate against attacks on systems. It provides a set of measurements to assess to what degree an organization has implemented these core activities, which can be used …
On June 17, 1972, five men broke in to the Democratic National Committee (DNC) headquarters in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Forty-four years later (almost to the day), hackers breached and infiltrated DNC computers. How do we learn from the DNC incident? At Assured Enterprises, we believe its time to take a proactive approach to cyber defense.
With smart contract development focused on the Ethereum blockchain platform, the first DAO (Distributed Autonomous Organization) launched with an estimated $160 million in crowdfunds. On June 17, a hacker exploited bugs in Ethereum’s code and siphoned $60 million from the DAO. This heist affects DAO investors, along with many technical leaders, blockchain developers, and Ethereum …
For nearly 100 years the electric grid protected itself from catastrophic malicious attack by a combination of perimeter security, intelligent security procedures and the industry’s own, hardened electromechanical infrastructure. Then came the Digital Age. Skilled software coders and programmers now work to enhance functionality within and communication between turbines, boilers, generators, high voltage transmission lines …