What is cyber insurance? Cyber insurance enables businesses to mitigate the costs that arise from cyber incidents, including ransomware. This type of insurance is essential to any business – regardless of the size or industry. A cyber incident ranges from…
And could it have been avoided? What happened with the Snowflake breach? 34 million users (already) were recently compromised in a data breach of the cyber security firm Cylance. Attackers breached Cylance by attacking a third-party vendor of theirs, known…
When working with clients to submit applications for Cyber Insurance, we often hear that they don’t understand the terminology on the application form. For anyone who has found themselves in this situation, hopefully these simplified explanations will help: IT Security Audit …
Obviously, the easiest advice we can give here is to hire Birmingham Consulting Inc. to be your IT consultant. But for people who want a second opinion, here are some common mistakes to avoid. The IT industry has its fair share…
No one is exempt from IT problems, but it’s hard to put a dollar figure to the actual hard costs to your business when IT problems occur. That’s because so many of these issues happen randomly and can be difficult…
We continue to alert our clients about the increasing need for cyber insurance. Especially when we continue to hear that one of the largest cyber liability insurers Lloyd’s continues to limit coverage—right at a time when nation states are ramping up…
Actioning a new cyber security policy or procedure can be an intense change for a company. Certainly, as a cyber security and technology company, we’ve heard it all from our clients, as the demand for better security measures and protocols increases –…
Sometimes I feel like the little boy who cried wolf, especially when it comes to the latest cyber attacks and breaches. Do people really comprehend the ramifications if they were to personally get breached? Even worse if they were the…
We decided to sit down and ask ChatGPT to write a blog on its threat to cyber security. ChatGPT: (Note that the first thing it does is defend itself): As an AI-powered language model, ChatGPT is not inherently a threat…
I recently had the privilege of meeting a business analyst from BDC. She shared some not-yet published information from a study BDC conducted. Most statics available online are U.S. Obtaining Canadian statistics can be difficult so I appreciate her willingness to share…