Ted Dziekanowski, a demonstration of how markets can get spooked when one bank, that many will have never heard of takes the step to add liquidity to its balance sheet. Spreading a cold across the rest of the FS sector…
It’s serious. The SolarWinds stock price has lost 17% since Friday. CISA (DHS) actions to restrict impact of SolarWinds compromise. The obvious, if infected 1. Disconnect SolarWinds immediately. 2. Block all traffic to and from hosts external to enterprise. 3.…
It’s from the left field, but we know that financial reporting to financial markets is core to stock and market stability. As the 75% fall in GE’s stock price attests (2017 and 2018). SEC’s order finds that GE violated the…
A useful read for DIB contractors in the European market. CMMC is moving forward and flow down of DFARS requirements ready applies for primes to subs for CUI. The question for many is do we start now to prepare for…
The cyber security market is bulging with products and services. So why do we continue (and will continue) to suffer successful cyber attacks, on such a large scale (there is no simple answer)? But…….. I see many cases where the…
The Adtech market was warned back in 2019 by the ICO to take control of data protection under GDPR. It would appear that the regulator is not satisfied by the progress made so far and has the industry lined up…
There does seem to be a trend emerging, which I believe is positive, of going to the market for advice, guidance and input into national cyber security strategy. The Australian government did it recently and now the Indian government are…
Chegg, a company which reported a data beach of it’s own in 2018 (resulting in a 12 PC drop in stock price), acquires Thinkful, an online edtech company on 4th of Sept. Which reported a data breach on the 19th…
It is a hard place to be, there is an opportunity to grow a market in cyber insurance. The ‘gold rush’ has pulled many underwriters into the market pricing products with little understanding of the complexity of the risk. There…
By any measure the cyber insurance market is growing. But the evidence is that it’s not all Rose’s for the insured. Insurers aren’t paying out and the insured doesn’t understand what will be covered. When we better understand the risk…
