The cybersecurity threat landscape is constantly evolving, and the cyber threats facing today’s government and military organizations are becoming increasingly sophisticated. This rising threat – and some of the workplace and technology changes that are happening across all levels of…
GovCyberHub Podcast – Can government agencies get cyber insurance?
Large-scale cyberattacks are no longer rare in the news cycle. Your standard frontpage news is highlighting a new cyberattack seemingly every day due to the frequency and severity of the breaches of 2021. That’s because cyber threats are getting more…
GovCyberHub Podcast – What exactly IS cybersecurity insurance?
In our last GovCyberHub Podcast, we sat down with two experts from CrowdStrike – Deborah Blyth and Adam Cottini – to discuss the cyberthreat landscape facing state and local government agencies, and how the increased threat is making cybersecurity insurance…
GovCyberHub Podcast – Does the government need cyber insurance?
According to IBM’s annual “Cost of a Data Breach Report,” the average cost of a cyberattack in 2021, “…rose from $3.86 million to $4.24 million, the highest average total cost in the history of [the] report.” And that exponential increase…
Safeguard your data against a ransomware attack with these ten data protection principles
Last month, it was announced that a vulnerability in a remote management and monitoring tool utilized by many managed service providers (MSPs) had been exploited to launch a massive ransomware attack that impacted not only those MSPs but possibly their…
Is 2021 the year that government agencies finally focus on data privacy?
A number of recent, high-profile data breaches and cyberattacks on U.S. digital infrastructure, networks, and critical infrastructure have made data privacy top-of-mind for the federal government. In light of recent attacks, including the Solarwinds breach, the Colonial Pipeline breach, and…
IBM’s Jason Keenaghan on the rising importance of zero trust cybersecurity
In a year full of high-profile cyberattacks, it should come as no surprise that the zero trust cybersecurity approach has become the standard across both the private and public sectors. The recent cybersecurity-focused executive order from the Biden Administration expressly…
TransUnion shares the warning signs and financial impact of an insider threat
When people think about cybersecurity and protecting a company, organization or government agency’s networks and data, they picture cyberwarriors doing battle against sophisticated hackers, opposing nation states or hacktivist groups. And while that’s certainly part of the job, they often…