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Cyber 18 Jun, 2021

CFC voted top SME Insurer at the Advisen Cyber Risk Awards

We're delighted that CFC's cyber underwriting and claims teams picked up three awards at the prestigious Advisen Cyber Risk Awards 2021.

News

Cyber 4 Jun, 2021

Car part chaos

When an auto parts dealer gets hit by a ransomware attack, it comes close to wrecking their business

Case study
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Cyber 20 May, 2021

Three ways we’re using technology to improve cyber risk

Why is the harnessing of technology so important for the cyber insurance lifecycle? Because a good cyber insurance policy doesn’t begin and end wit...

Article

Cyber 29 Apr, 2021

Client Advisory: Vulnerabilities in multiple platforms

An advisory released by the NSA, CISA and FBI on 15 April warns of vulnerabilities being exploited by the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service, als...

Advisory
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Cyber 20 Apr, 2021

April cyber news round-up

There’s a lot happening in the world of cybercrime and security. Here’s our latest round-up of the cyber-related news that matters to you.

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Cyber 2 Apr, 2021

CFC judged a 5-star cyber insurer

CFC was one of just a few cyber insurance providers to get five stars in all of the judging categories in Insurance Business America’s recent report.

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Cyber 1 Apr, 2021

How to choose a cyber insurance provider

With cyber policy language becoming more standardised, how can you tell the strongest cyber policies from the weakest ones?

Article

Cyber 15 Mar, 2021

CFC acquires Insane Technologies

CFC extends global cyber incident response team with acquisition of Insane Technologies.

News

Cyber 5 Mar, 2021

Client Advisory: Exchange Marauder

Microsoft has released emergency out-of-band security updates for most Microsoft Exchange versions that fix four newly detected vulnerabilities act...

Advisory

Cyber 19 Feb, 2021

5 reasons you're crazy not to use Connect

Last year, we launched our single-question trading platform for cyber, Connect. Now available to our brokers globally, are you missing a trick by n...

Article
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Cyber 16 Feb, 2021

Recruitment ruse

When an employee at a recruitment firm falls for a phishing scam, a significant payment is misdirected

Case study
Cyber security measures

Cyber 19 Jan, 2021

6 things cyber underwriters love

Clients often ask what types of cybersecurity measures they should adopt as a business, so we’ve spoken to our underwriters and security team at CF...

Article

Cyber 16 Dec, 2020

Beware of these holiday hacks

It would seem that cybercriminals don’t respect the sanctity of holidays and, in fact, Christmas makes them positively creative! Here, we explore a...

Article

Cyber 14 Dec, 2020

Client advisory: Securing the Remote Desktop Protocol

With more and more cyber incidents stemming from vulnerable RDP ports, our Incident Response Team has provided some more information about this tec...

Advisory

Cyber 17 Nov, 2020

CFC Response App: More about proactive threat intel

The first in our series of posts detailing the inner workings of CFC’s new mobile app, find out how our proactive threat intel gives small business...

Article

Cyber 10 Nov, 2020

Search engine setback

When malicious code impairs a hotel's website, it takes longer than expected to get back on track

Case study

Cyber 9 Nov, 2020

IB Cyber Report America: Cyber is putting businesses under pressure

Find out what CFC's Shannon Groeber had to say about the pandemic and other pressing cyber insurance issues in the special report issued by Insuran...

Article

Cyber 4 Nov, 2020

Our latest Cyber Toolkit

Ever find yourself searching for a useful claims example? Or that certain product brochure? Or want to know more about CFC's cyber incident respons...

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