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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: 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 to...

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

Cyber Risk Assessment can be fast, easy and painless 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.But cyber risk assessments are not necessarily...

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.” This is directly relevant to modern day cyber security best practices, and should be understood by all businesses. ...

When does MFA require F2A?

When does MFA require F2A? It's tough to find a cyber insurer today who does not require their insureds to deploy multi-factor authentication (aka MFA) across their organization. It’s a fairly well-understood concept to most agents that it's now a “No-MFA, No Play” game, and the absence of a positive...

TEKRiSQ named to 2022 CyberTech|X Cohort

the2022 CyberTech|X Startup Accelerator Tampa Bay Wave's 2022 CyberTech|X Accelerator cohort kicked off this week, welcoming 15 of the best and brightest cybersecurity startups from across the US (including TEKRiSQ) and beyond to Tampa Bay. TEKRiSQ joined the Tampa Bay Wave CyberTech Accelerator Cohort with other  startups from Canada, France,...

5 Unpopular Predictions for Cyber Insurers in 2022

Cyber Insurers Should Innovate or Expect a Brutal Year As the crazy rollercoaster ride of 2021's cyber insurance market comes to a close, many diverse end-of-year predictions are being published. Cyber Risk Insurance Predictions are all over the place. TEKRiSQ's data-driven observations from numerous real-world client conversations predict more of...

Business Owners Remain Overconfident About Cyber Threats

SMB Business Owner Overconfidence in Cybersecurity There is an issue we have seen time and time again - business owners do not understand or appreciate their cyber risk and they remain overconfident about their ransomware risks.   According to a recent article citing an Embroker report published in Carrier Management, business...

Property Casualty 360: TEKRiSQ’s 5 Myths About Insuring Cyber Risks

Do you know these five myths about insuring cyber risks? Property Casualty 360: 5 Myths Insuring Cyber Risks by Dean Mechlowitz TEKRiSQ's COO| October 07, 2021 at 12:00 AM Property Casualty 360: 5 Myths Insuring Cyber Risks- Independent insurance agents and brokers serving small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) must keep up with...