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What Is Cyber Extortion? Tips for Securing Your Data

Pure Storage

Sextortion scams surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, with attackers sending emails claiming to have hacked webcams or email accounts, demanding Bitcoin to delete the alleged footage. Also, cyber insurance premiums have risen dramatically as insurers face increasing claims, further straining budgets.

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Post-Pandemic Business Continuity Recovery Strategies

FEI

It wasn’t just small business that took a major hit during the pandemic. Here are a few tips to keep in mind when developing your own business continuity plan: Have training documents prepared. Consider business interruption insurance. Develop a plan for data backup. And continue to test your emergency response plan.

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Business, Interrupted: How to Respond When A Headline-Making Cyber Crisis Becomes Your Reality

Castellan

These are among the many topics dominating news stories, especially since the outbreak of the pandemic two years ago. At the top of the list is incident response plans and testing. Your incident response plans and playbooks—especially those you’ve tested and matured—are key to managing this chaos. Phishing schemes.

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Continuity Strategies to Support an Enterprise Resiliency Program

eBRP

Traditional BCM is often limited to tactical response plans, perceived simply as insurance policies that rarely spark high-level executive engagement. This means investing in cross-functional collaboration to identify risks, prioritize critical assets, and develop robust response plans that minimize downtime.

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Cyberrisk Management Tips for Businesses Amid the Russia-Ukraine War

Risk Management Monitor

Cyber insurance firm Coalition has put together a guide to basic cybersecurity measures to help organizations—policyholders and otherwise—proactively manage cyberrisk and reduce the likelihood of a cybersecurity incident. Organizations should be asking themselves, “What does the work day look like without access to the business’ systems?”

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

Organizations should invite third-party experts, such as law enforcement officers, data security consultants, insurers, and public relations professionals to observe and provide feedback during cyber exercises. “Exercise Smarter: Include 3rd Party Experts In Your Cyber Exercises.”

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Testing, Testing: Our Best Blogs on BC Testing and Mock Disaster Exercises

MHA Consulting

Organizations should invite third-party experts, such as law enforcement officers, data security consultants, insurers, and public relations professionals to observe and provide feedback during cyber exercises. “Exercise Smarter: Include 3rd Party Experts In Your Cyber Exercises.”