Cyber insurance • Assured

Features 12.04.2024

Insurers Are Taking a Hard Line on Ivanti: Should Customers Be Concerned?

The CEO of Coalition turned heads with his candid “We’ve long declined to organisations using vulnerable Ivanti appliances” comment last week.

Blogs & Opinions 19.03.2024

Getting Into the Psyche of a Ransomware Hacker in 2024

What’s changed in the ransomware landscape in 2024? Chris Rogers considers the psyche of those writing the code and looks at new tactics, tools and the prevalence of double-extortion ransomware The cybersecurity ecosystem moves at an extremely rapid pace. However, in the months ahead, it seems inevitable that organisations will be faced with even more […]

Features 05.03.2024

Business Email Compromise: How Not to Lose $121m Like Google and Facebook

How BEC is becoming a bigger threat and what you can do about it

Features 25.01.2024

Ransomware in the UK: A Catastrophic Risk?

The House of Commons and House of Lords released a report on UK national security, warning that the UK is at risk of a catastrophic ransomware attack. Assured Intelligence breaks that down.

Interviews 23.01.2024

Getting to Know: Lisa Forte

There’s @LisaForteUK. And then there’s Lisa Forte. Most people only know the former, but Eleanor Dallaway met the ‘real Lisa Forte’ for a walls down heart-to-heart.

Features 16.01.2024

To Ban or Not to Ban? The Experts Weigh in on Ransomware Payments

How do you halt a cybercrime pandemic that continues growing?

Features 09.11.2023

SolarWinds CISO Charged with Fraud: What it Means for CISOs

SolarWinds CISO Tim Brown has been explicitly named for allegedly failing to inform investors or act on known security vulnerabilities. Callum Booth talks with CISOs to figure out what this means for the future of the CISO role At the end of October, shockwaves rippled through the cybersecurity sector. Following 2020’s notorious Sunburst attack, the […]

Features 31.10.2023

How to Create the Perfect Incident Response Strategy in Eight Steps

It’s time to get your incident response ducks in a row…

Blogs & Opinions 03.10.2023

Chinese Espionage is Back on Track: What Businesses Need to Know

The stakes just got higher in the world of cyber espionage.

Features 26.09.2023

PSNI Breaches: The Real Cost of Security Failure

Given Northern Ireland’s deeply troubled political climate, the stakes are high in the aftermath of the PSNI breaches

Blogs & Opinions 21.07.2023

A Cyber Dummy’s Guide to the Galaxy

They say good things come in threes. This is my third content and marketing gig working in tech, but this time it’s different. It’s cyber. Only cyber. Or to be more specific, cybersecurity. There’s no data engineering, JavaScript, manual testing, SQL or business analysis to fall back on. Just scary, unknown, cybersecurity Everywhere I’ve worked […]

Features 20.07.2023

The Bigger Picture: Why Cyber Risk Aggregation Matters

Aggregate cyber risk should inform executive cyber strategy and help insurers to price cyber policies more accurately. Here’s how…

Features 29.06.2023

Closed for Business: The Organisations That Suffered Fatal Cyber Attacks that Shut Their Doors For Good

Assured Intelligence has taken a look at some of the companies that have gone out of business due to a cyber-attack to bring you the low-down on what happened in each case.

Interviews 04.04.2023

A Cyber Insurance Broker Grilling

Insurance exasperating ransomware? An immature sector? Savings instead of insurance? Dan Raywood grills Assured’s head cyber broker, Ed Ventham, about the state of cyber insurance

Assured Reacts 28.02.2023

Assured Reacts: CSO Online Compiles Seven Reasons to Avoid Cyber Insurance. We Dispel Each and Every One.

We share seven counter-arguments to the points reported in CSO Online’s article, ‘7 reasons to avoid investing in cyber insurance’

Features 07.02.2023

Cyber Risk Real Talk: How to Identify and Address Your Unique Risk

It’s hardly setting the world alight by announcing that determining cyber risk is crucial to a successful cybersecurity response. Kathryn Pick helps to identify how an organisation goes about identifying where that risk lies