GLBA Compliance Deadline: June 9th, 2023

GLBA Safeguards Compliance Deadline Almost Here WHAT IS THIS?? A reminder to  higher education and financial institutions subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA): the deadline to comply with FTC's revised Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information, aka "The Safeguards Rule," is here. Covered institutions must comply by June 9, 2023.  This...

Inaction After Cyber Risk Recommendations

What Causes Inaction After Assessment Recommendations? One of the great ironies of human behavior is this: When a problem confronts us, we take the time and money to get outside expertise for guidance ― and then, with report in hand, we fail to implement it. Case in point: It is...

Marsh Study & Key Controls for SMBs

Marsh McLennan, together with Guy Carpenter and the cooperation of numerous cybersecurity solution firms, has recently published a fascinating study Using Data to Prioritize Cybersecurity Investments. This is a very useful study to help identify the specific solutions most useful to protect an  organization, as well as to model cyber...

Cyber Highlights

Remember those brothers we read about as kids back in the day? Well, they're all grown up now, and leading their own companies. However, they still have their differences, especially when it comes to cyber wellness, and developing a corporate culture friendly towards good cybersecurity practices. One of these companies...

Notes From PLUS Cyber Symposium 2023

After recently joining the Professional Liability Underwriting Society (PLUS), TEKRiSQ attended our first PLUS Cyber Symposium this week in New York City. We found it to be an excellent event, filled with valuable insight covering the year behind us, the present trends and market changes, the expectations for the future...

Protect Your Business Against Credential Stuffing Schemes

Employees of small and medium-sized businesses that lack a strong cyber risk posture are often careless with their login credentials, passwords, etc. This can be an enormous problem. If these credentials are exposed and shared in the public domain (dark web or elsewhere) you can easily fall victim to credential...

Rackspace Ransomware Ruining Holiday Cheer

Corporate Complacency Make Hosted Clients Homeless for Holidays Today as we rush to remember our friends family and colleagues with cards, gifts or a simple phone call, some Rackspace customers are being forced to deal with ransomware chaos. A gap in cyber resilience means victims and their vendors are having...

Cyber Risk Assessments Don’t Have to Be Like a Root Canal

Cyber-Risk Assessments Don’t Have to Be Like a Root Canal If you’re like most business owners, a cyber-risk assessment isn’t at the top of your to-do list. In fact, you may think it’s like a root canal — a painful process you’d rather avoid. Unfortunately, many cyber-consulting firms make these...

Proactive Agents Employ Cyber-Risk Assessments to Write More Business

Proactive Agents Employ Cyber-Risk Assessments to Write More Business A recent survey found that 82% of global insurers expect rises in cyber premiums to continue for 2 years, due to their inability to accurately understand a customer’s security posture. 87% of insurers "want a consistent approach to analyzing cyber risk,...

BEN FRANKLIN: Cyber visionary

A Lesson from Ben Franklin on Cyber-Protection Ben Franklin is famous for pithy wisdom, and one of his most famous sayings is: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In colonial America, the biggest threat to life and property, aside from disease, was the risk of fire,...