Blog Posts

Featured posts from our MOXFIVE Technical Advisors with thoughts and stories to help minimize the business impact of cyber attacks.

What Isn't Covered by Cyber Insurance?

Despite its growing role in incident response, understanding cybersecurity insurance coverage can still be daunting for many organizations. In this blog, we discuss what cybersecurity insurance is, what to look for within your policy, and what is not typically covered by most policies to help you feel more prepared when submitting a claim.

How Does Your Company "Winterize" Your Cybersecurity Posture?

Here's a quick look at cybersecurity initiatives to think about tackling in Q4 or integrating into your roadmap for this upcoming year.

Assessing Cyber Risk of New Vulnerabilities

How do you assess the risk to your organization when a new vulnerability is announced? Here's a quick checklist to help you gauge the severity.

The Million Dollar Question

Should you pay the ransom? It depends.

Setting Expectations: Ransomware Decryptors

A short list of things to keep in mind when dealing the ransomware decryptors.

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Proper Security Controls

Having proper security controls in place are critical to preventing both the frequency and severity of cyber incidents.

Unmasking the Mystery of Cybersecurity Training: Turning Yawns into Yields

Cybersecurity training is often treated as a task done simply to check a box on a security checklist, but in reality, it's a critical element of a mature cybersecurity program.

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response: Data Mining + Notification

Understanding what data has been affected and determining a notification plan is a critical aspect of incident response that comes with substantial costs and complexities.

Understanding the Costs of Incident Response

In this series, we look at the various costs that may be incurred during a typical ransomware incident and discuss key security controls that can help organizations minimize the impact of a cyber-attack.

Navigating the Cyber Insurance Market

As cyber threats evolve, understanding the changing cyber insurance market is essential for organizations to ensure adequate coverage. This article for InsuranceNewsNet.com looks at key points to keep in mind when considering a cyber policy.

Airiam Podcast: Flight Plan for Ransomware Recovery

Jim Aldridge joins our partners at Airiam on their podcast to discuss parallels he sees between flying a plane and successfully preparing for and responding to cybersecurity incidents.

Enterprise Remediation Part 1: Five Tips for Preparing and Planning

When an incident progresses to the point where enterprise remediation is required, the scope and scale of the response can be daunting. In this two-part series with CrowdStrike, we lay out a roadmap from planning to recovery.

The Future is Now, AI-Assisted Cybersecurity

Can new AI models such as ChatGPT be used to help cybersecurity teams? Yes! Here are three quick use cases.

8 Mitigation Options to Help Reduce the Impact of a Ransomware Incident

In this blog, we look at 8 examples of best practices that can be implemented to provide for a more resilient architecture.

Ransomware and the Importance of Selecting the Right Digital Forensics Provider

Picking a forensics provider is one of the first critical decisions you have to make when faced with a cyber incident. In this blog, we cover the capabilities to consider when evaluating a potential provider.

Investigating Business Email Compromises

Business Email Compromises (BECs) continue to be the one of the top attack vectors, costing organizations over $2.3 billion in 2021. In this blog, we share priorities and key methodologies for investigating these attacks.

Minimizing the Impact: Securing Active Directory

Gaining access to Active Directory is often a goal of threat actors during an intrusion. In this blog, we look at two key workstreams that add security layers making it more difficult for threat actors to achieve this goal.

When it Comes to Cybersecurity, Money Talks

Changes in the cyber insurance industry are driving a change in how organizations are investing in security.

The Next Phase in Cyber Insurance

Cyber claims have departed from lost laptops and basic malware claims and the industry is now realizing that it's less prepared to deal with

Think Before you “Brick”

Over the last year, insurance carriers have looked for innovative ways to expand coverage. One such area is coverage around “bricking”. A...

Incident Response: Endpoint Agent All the Things?

Understanding the role of Endpoint Technology in Incident Response

The Next Phase in Cyber Insurance

Cyber claims have departed from lost laptops and basic malware claims and the industry is now realizing that it's less prepared to deal with

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