The Cyber Tipping Point—Are We There Yet?

As known cyberattacks are being reported as increasing in number, frequency and severity, you have to ask whether we are reaching, or have already reached, a tipping point where everyone gets so ...
How the Cyber Grinch Stole Christmas: Managing Retailer Supply Chain Cyber Risk

How the Cyber Grinch Stole Christmas: Managing Retailer Supply Chain Cyber Risk

Cyber threats are always a prominent risk to businesses, especially those operating with high quantities of customer information in the retail space, with over 50% of global retailers were breached last year ...
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Getting on Top of Enterprise Cyber Risk Management

It’s common for two people to discuss enterprise cyber risk management without sharing a common understanding of the topic. What is enterprise cyber risk management, anyway? The answer can vary within an ...
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Interpreting Moody’s Research on the Implications of Cyber Risk

Moody’s looks at the event risk and the impact of cyber incidents on organizations For some time now, information security professionals have been discussing how a company’s stock price can be affected ...
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Rating: How Current Cybersecurity Issues Can Affect Future Profitability

Fallout from Equifax’s 2017 data breach continues to impact the company even years later. Moody’s Investor Service, a bond credit rating business, lowered Equifax’s rating outlook from stable to negative, which indicates ...
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Digital Transformation Leaving Organizations More Vulnerable

Rush to Digital Transformation Leaving Organizations More Vulnerable

Digital transformation was one of those buzzterms I heard both at RSA and during my post-conference conversations. There’s a lot of exciting changes happening on the digital front—AI and ML taking on ...
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The Cyber-Risk Paradox: Benefits of New Technologies Bring Hidden Security Risks

When attending cybersecurity conferences, you expect to learn a lot of interesting things surrounding data security, but my experience is that there is always one tidbit, one piece of information, that jumps ...
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Cyber Insurance Adoption Low, Despite Rising Cyberattack Threats

Cyber incidents are costly. We know that. Just how costly has been a subject of debate, but a new study from Cyber Risk Management (CyRiM) project, a Singapore-based public-private initiative that assesses ...
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M&A Cybersecurity: Lessons from the Marriott Breach

The new year is a time of reflection and learning from the mistakes of the past. For many organizations, that means re-evaluating their security posture and making improvements—whether they experienced a breach ...
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Cyber Incident Risk: From IT Headache to Business Threat

In the digital transformation era, the growing number, sophistication and severity of cyber attacks can pose a dire threat to an organization?s entire business. Unless IT and business teams work together to ...