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Are Cyber Insurance Policies Necessary?
by Marina Iantorno
Cyber insurance offers protection against financial damage resulting from catastrophes involving computer networks, such as data breaches, network failures, and cyber-attacks. Cyber insurance is used to cover a wide variety of costs associated with cyber incidents, including remediation costs, legal expenses, and losses as a result of reputational damage.    Cyber insurance coverage is often tailored to meet the requirements of the company insured. Insurance firms are carrying out increasingly thorough evaluations of the cybersecurity at organizations...
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How to Find the Best IT Solution for Your Business
by Marina Iantorno
Every company has different needs. These will depend on company size, location, products they offer, not to mention the current infrastructure in place. Unfortunately, there is not a solution that “fits them all”, and the high maturity of the IT market leads to numerous vendors offering their services. In this context, the main issue is not to cover the needs of an organization, but to choose the best solutions and to understand their advantages and disadvantages. Process phases Evaluating and selecting vendors and solutions is not an easy task. It is a process and...
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Is It Possible to Recover After a Cyberattack?
by Marina Iantorno
Unfortunately, every organization is vulnerable to a cyberattack. We have seen in the last years a considerable increase in cybercrime and the negative impact that it causes on businesses. The obvious consequences are financial, but that is just the tip of the iceberg. There are several other aspects to consider, such as intellectual property loss, reputation damage, or data privacy breaches. It is undeniable that there is no way to be totally safe, but it is always good to work on a plan to mitigate disasters and cyber-crisis. Disaster plan vs Cyber recovery plan Although a disaster...
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Cyber-Crisis Becomes an Opportunity for Insurers
by Marina Iantorno
The pandemic changed our lives in many ways, some good and some bad. However, one impact has been that that cyber-attacks are more prevalent than ever before.  Every organization across all industry sectors is now a target of cyber-crime. It seems like every day another cyber-security incident is reported in the press. Phishing emails, triplets, ransomware, SMS with embedded malware are now threatening organizations daily. These threats have put the spotlight on cyber-insurance. Having a cyber insurance policy in place is now a must for a wide range of organizations, but there are...
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Ransomware: The Invisible Enemy of Organizations
by Marina Iantorno
The cost of cyber-attacks to the global economy has risen to more than 400 billion US dollars per year. Cyber-attacks affect every business, from small companies to enterprises and governments. Recovering from attacks is expensive and time-consuming. So, how to make an organization more resilient to cyber-attacks in today’s digital world?   Digital transformation has changed the business and delivered new opportunities to organizations. However, going digital also increased the risk of becoming a victim of a cyber-crime. Fighting cyber-attacks are an unfair battle...
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Layoffs at Technology Firms: An Indicator of a Busting Bubble?
by Marina Iantorno
Undoubtedly, many technology companies enjoyed an outstanding success during and after the COVID-19 outbreak. Businesses changed in several fields and we saw situations that we would have rarely expected before: switching to online shopping, online education, remote working, minimizing trips and avoiding human contact, just to mention a few. Lockdown forced humanity to look for a shelter against the confinement, and people found it in technology, which became the main protagonist in our everyday life. This scenario made companies like Zoom, Google, Apple, Meta, and others grow explosively....
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Do Machines Have Consciousness and Feelings?
by Marina Iantorno
Human imagination is like a box with a wide range of ideas: every person could imagine different things, but as a society it is common to picture outstanding scenarios where the species would achieve amazing progress. For instance, some movies like X-Machina or Bicentennial Man envisioned a future where relationships between robots and people are possible, and implanted the idea of machines having consciousness and feelings towards others. We probably looked at these films as impossible scenarios, but what happens when reality overlaps with fiction? A few days ago, many people around...
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