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How Partnering With a Cyber Insurance Broker Protects Your Clients

ProWriters

As an insurance broker, you likely recognize that while these technologies drive business operations, they also increase vulnerability to cyber crime, making Cyber Insurance a necessity for your clients. Helping your clients understand cyber risks and Cyber Insurance policy jargon can be challenging.

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Cyber Insurance for Contractors: What It Covers & Why They Need It

ProWriters

Contractors in the construction industry are not immune to cyber attacks. Ransomware attacks, phishing scams, and other types of cyber attacks can result in data breaches and other incidents that cause financial loss, reputational harm, and legal consequences. Cyber Insurance for contractors is an essential safety net.

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The latest reports from FBI and ITRC reveal that cyber incidents in 2023 broke records for financial loss and frequency.

Triple-I: Business Insurance

Cyber incidents reported to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in 2023 totaled 880,418. Meanwhile, supply-chain attacks increased, and weak notification frameworks further increased cyber risk for all stakeholders. These attacks caused a five-year high of $12.5

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A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Data Breach Forensics

ProWriters

Sure, you’ll need to assess the compromised data and financial losses, but to truly understand the breach and protect against future risks, data breach forensics is essential. Let’s break down the steps involved in a data breach forensic investigation and see how the experts pull back the curtain on cyber crime.

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RIMS TechRisk/RiskTech: Opportunities and Risks of AI

Risk Management Monitor

Ramesh Srinivasan gave a keynote titled “The Opportunities and Downside Risks of Using AI,” touching on the key flashpoints of current technological advancement, and what they mean for risk management. He noted that as data storage has become far cheaper, and computation quicker, this has allowed risk assessment technology to improve.

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RIMS TechRisk/RiskTech: Using Cyberrisk Analytics to Improve Your Cyber Insurance Program

Risk Management Monitor

As ransomware continues to spread and payment costs increase, cyber insurance rates have gone up exponentially. As a result, it is more important than ever for companies to understand their cyber vulnerabilities and exposures so they can ensure they are properly covered. One way to do this is through analytics.

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4 Steps to Help Organizations Embrace Risk from Emerging Technology

Risk Management Monitor

As risk management professionals, these rapid changes have made our job more important than ever to our organizations. Yet the majority of our organizations—particularly in C-suites—remain far from giving risk management experts the seat at the table they need to effectively safeguard against enterprise threats, digital or otherwise.

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