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    From Reactive to Proactive Security: Ransomware Attack Prompts a Culture Shift at a Healthcare Nonprofit

    When a nonprofit healthcare organization suffered a ransomware attack, the incident did more than bring business to a temporary standstill — it also shined a spotlight on the dangers of a convenience-first culture.

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    SIEM vs. XDR: Advances in Security Monitoring and Cyber Defense

    BY RAE JEWELL The cybersecurity industry is chockfull of jargon, abbreviations, and acronyms. So much so that it can often be difficult to decide which tools may provide the best protection for your company. To help, we’d like to clarify some terms…

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    Healthcare Company Takes Proactive Measures to Improve Security Maturity

    A CIO saw a cyber incident as an opportunity to measure and get a baseline of the company's cyber hygiene and devise a plan for hardening infrastructure and reaching a higher level of security maturity.

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    The Hidden Costs of Cybercrime

    By Kevin Baker, Director of Cyber Strategy and Defense   This year, the global cost of cybercrime is expected to hit $6 trillion.[i] Up from $3 trillion in 2015, it’s nothing short of a big, flourishing business whose operators are relentless…

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    Demystifying Cyber Insurance

    Marc Shein, co-chair of Marsh McLennan Agency’s Cyber Center of Excellence, joins this episode of the podcast to discuss how cyber insurance can strengthen your business, risk prevention, and cyber resilience. 

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    DasH into the Future of Cybercrime

    Combination of exfiltration and digital vandalism to disrupt businesses and their operations. By Jaycee Roth  It is 6:30AM on a Monday morning, you are startled awake by your phone receiving a call. It is Veronica, a long-time employee complaining…

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    Ransomware Decryptors for a (varying) fee

    Ransomware attacks wreak havoc on business operations. Destroying recovery options, instill­ing fear and panic, and most often creating high levels of stress for IT staff, owners, and operators. A simple, but often costly fix is to just pay the…

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    Anti-virus or AI driven Endpoint Protection?

    Stephen Ramey Arete investigates a lot of ransomware attacks. In fact, 90% of our business is helping organizations big and small, recover from and investigate ransomware attacks. Variants like Maze, Sodinokibi, WastedLocker, Ryuk,…

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    Anatomy of an Incident Response

    Listen as we dive in to the many facets of an incident response to give you insight into the characteristics of a typical IR victim, IR planning, importance of strong passwords, the key to successful forensics and more!

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    Remote Access and IoT Search Engines

    Recently, Arete Incident Response Tiger Teams (“Arete IR”) have responded to an increased volume of ransomware incidents involving the Sodinikibi, Phobos, and Dharma ransomware variants. The threat actors deploying these variants are known to use…

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