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Cyber ​​attack: Barmer informs its customers 
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A few days ago, BARMER Krankenkasse announced that one of its IT service providers had already been attacked on May 31, 2023. According to an internal letter, data from the users of a bonus program has probably been leaked. It will be further investigated. Although the BARMER homepage talks about an attack on a security gap at an IT service provider, the question of data leakage is still being examined. The security gap was probably closed immediately and there was never a connection to the BARMER IT environment. The authorities have been informed of the incident. It all sounds exactly like...

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Cyber ​​insurance: The quality of defense determines the premium

Insurance against cybercrime is now standard protection for companies. But the insurance conditions depend on your own defense quality. The Sophos report on cyber insurance shows that those who have insurance are more likely to pay criminals ransom. In the new report "The Critical Role of Frontline Cyber ​​Defenses in Cyber ​​Insurance Adoption", Sophos has examined the connections between defense quality, insurability and insurance conditions for companies. 95 percent of organizations that purchased a cyber insurance policy in the last year say the quality of their organization's cyber defenses directly impacts their insurance terms. For 60 percent, the quality influences…

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Cyber ​​insurance: 80 percent of customers with claims 
Cyber ​​insurance: 80 percent of customers with claims

Cyber ​​insurance is in demand, but most of them hardly want to cover the risks anymore: almost 80 percent of the companies that have taken out cyber insurance have already made claims with their insurer, more than half of them more than once. This is the result of a survey* by Delinea, the specialist in privileged access management (PAM) solutions for seamless security. As a result, insurance companies are increasingly withdrawing from covering critical risks. For example, damage caused by ransomware or costs for data recovery are no longer covered by the policy of around 50 percent of the companies surveyed. In doing so, the…

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