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Travelers Plans to Stick to Current ‘Prudent’ Cyber Insurance Growth Rate
Travelers Cos Inc plans to stick to its recent growth pace for sales of cyber insurance, which protects businesses against hacking and other liabilities, despite potential to boost it, as the insurer ...
Equifax CEO Smith Retires After Massive Cyber Attack
Equifax said on Tuesday its Chief Executive Officer Richard Smith will retire following a massive data breach at the credit reporting firm that exposed personal details of up to 143 million U.S. ...
Israeli Cybersecurity Company Sees Autos as Significant Growth Market
The Israeli cybersecurity company that pioneered corporate firewalls is making deeper inroads with the auto industry. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd., the world's second-biggest provider of ...
RIMS 2017: Experts Urge Insurers to Treat Cyber As Risk Management Issue
If fire breaks out in a building, you wouldn't run out and buy and extinguisher to fight it after the fact. You'd likely already have one. The same idea should apply to cyber insurance, and yet ...
Russia Allegedly Hacked Yahoo, But Cybersecurity Lapses Were Severe
When it comes to Yahoo's massive security breach, the company was right about one thing. Yahoo! Inc. has been saying since September that a state-sponsored actor was behind a hack in 2014 that ...
Cyber Breach Costs Aren’t Significant Enough to Spur Big Security Investment in Computer Security
The cost of a typical cyber breach to an American company is much less than has been generally estimated, providing one possible explanation for why companies do not invest more to improve computer ...
XL Catlin Rolls Out Online Portal Designed to Enhance Cyber Breach Services
XL Catlin is marketing a new online portal as a way to help its clients better address cyber breaches. Resources offered through CyberRiskIQ.Com range from service details to cyber-related news and ...
Investors In the Dark About Worsening Corporate Cyber Crime Risks
Investors are being poorly served by a haphazard approach from fund managers to the growing threat of cyber crime damaging the companies in which they invest, with a lack of clarity from the ...