Cyber insurance isn’t always what it seems

Many companies think cyber insurance will protect them from financial losses after an attack. But many policies have gaps. Some claims get denied. Others cover less than expected. CISOs must understand the risks before an attack happens. Misconceptions…

March 27, 2025
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Why You Need Cyber Resilience and Defence in Depth

And how to become resilient with ISO 27001 and ISO 22301 Unfortunately, even the most secure organisation can suffer an incident. The odds are simply stacked against you: While you need to protect all your assets from all types of threat, an attacker needs only one exploitable weakness to get into your systems. Plus, any security measure you implement is only designed to stop, at most, a handful of threats – and that’s assuming it was both correctly implemented and still doing its job. Regardless of implementation, single measures aren’t enough – because no measure is foolproof. The consequences of

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December 16, 2024
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The Third-Party Threat for Financial Organisations

DORA’s supply chain security requirements IT Governance’s research for November 2023 found that 48% of the month’s incidents originated from the supply chain (i.e. were third-party attacks). For Europe, this number rises to 61%. Admittedly, it only takes a comparatively small number of supply chain attacks to skew the number of incidents. It’s in their nature for one attack to compromise potentially hundreds or even thousands of organisations. However, that doesn’t stop the numbers from being worrying. It can be challenging to secure your supply chain – organisations tend to simply trust that the products and services they use are

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December 22, 2023
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