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Cyber security insights
STORM's cyber security insights bring you all the latest trends in digital security, cyber insurance, incident response and more
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See what our specialists have to say about ransomware, business email compromise, extortion, data theft and all aspects of cyber risk.
Rosanna Hayes
Jan 20, 2021
How to determine the financial exposure and limits of cover needed by private schools
With standalone cyber policies the new norm, brokers are experiencing the pressures of assessing the financial exposure and limits of...
Rosanna Hayes
Jan 6, 2021
The Catastrophic Effect of Cyber Incidents and ‘Black Swan’ Theory
Cybersecurity is one of the most glaring challenges faced by companies and government today, and yet visibility and public awareness...
Rosanna Hayes
Dec 17, 2020
The SUNBURST Attack – Biggest Hack for Years
Insurers to set aside funds for claims as systemic risk looks more likely Many of us have already learned of the SUNBURST attack which is...
Rosanna Hayes
Dec 3, 2020
Calls to Close Cyber Coverage Gaps as Ransomware Payment Penalties Hit
There is no denying the impact COVID-19 has had on the security posture of small and medium businesses since the move to remote working...
Rosanna Hayes
Nov 26, 2020
A Brokers’ Role in Cyber Risk Management
UK insurance brokers increasingly face a more complicated role in the assessing of business cyber risk and the implementation of...
Rosanna Hayes
Nov 11, 2020
The Anatomy of an Email Compromise
Business Email Compromise (BEC) is one of the more frequent forms of cybercrime today, with the potential to cost companies millions of...
Rosanna Hayes
Oct 27, 2020
Selling Cyber Insurance in a Hard Market
It has been almost 20 years since we last saw a true ‘hard market’ for business insurance, and in fact, many of today’s insurance...
Neil Hare-Brown
Oct 21, 2020
Fighting Cybercrime with Regulation
Is it just me or is the world going crazy? The current scourge of cybercrime is a bit of a blight on the copybook of many governments...
Rosanna Hayes
Oct 6, 2020
How to Convey Cyber Risk to Senior Management
CYBER3 aids brokers in addressing precise underwriting indicators to assess cyber exposure for an accurate and tailored insurance plan.
Neil HB
Jul 23, 2020
Screen Scraping for Data Exfiltration
Screen Scraping or Web Scraping is a technique commonly used by both legitimate business and cyber criminals to collect data from web...
Neil HB
Feb 6, 2019
Ransomware: Prepare, Prevent, Respond
Ransomware is the extortion-driven malware epidemic sweeping the globe. There are a large and growing number of Ransomware programs all...
Neil HB
Apr 17, 2018
Stress Testing Your Cyber Risk Management
"You can't write an entry about stress testing. People will think your article will be about regulatory control and the survival of...
Neil HB
Aug 16, 2017
BA risks adding insult to injury: Boards & IT Crisis Management
I have been keeping up with the news on the IT outage at BA and noticed that it resonates with subject matter in a blog entry I wrote in...
Neil HB
May 12, 2017
Can Cyber Protection be Straight-Forward? - Part 1
In the wake of the recent WCry Ransomware attacks on the NHS I have to ask whether I am missing something; or has the cyber security...
Neil HB
Mar 4, 2017
Investigations Skills Required
There are a growing number of cyber response companies beginning to hit the scene in response to the sheer number and cost of breaches....
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