This infographic offers insights relating to the European Cybersecurity regulations.

This is the North American section of the Lloyd’s City Risk Index.

This paper provides the Middle East and African insights from the Lloyd’s City Risk Index.

This is the Latin American focussed section of the Lloyd’s City Risk Index.

From the report, “The second Lloyd’s City Risk Index, based on original research by the Centre for Risk Studies at Cambridge University’s Judge Business School, details the risk landscape in the world’s leading 279 cities, responsible for 41% of global economic output in 2018. The data contained in this report will help policymakers, businesses and insurers make cities more resilient. Risk is managed most effectively by societies who anticipate and learn from each disruptive event, making the next generation safer.” Read on to find out more.

This report provides the Asia Pacific focussed section of the Lloyd’s City Risk Index.

This report summarizes Lloyd’s City Risk Index report for the cities of Europe.

From the report, “The widespread digitization of financial services is causing large-scale and sweeping transformations across various facets of the business, creating new growth opportunities but also new challenges and inherent risk. In the insurance sector, particularly, digital transformation is driven by new competitive threats, ongoing cost pressures, aging technology and increasing regulatory requirements. Put all together, there is a huge opportunity to modernize, to create new business models, acquire customers on new channels and create competitive and compelling customer experiences. ” Read on to find out more.

This report explores how a ransomware attack might take place and what the impacts would be on governments, businesses, and the insurance sector. In the scenario, the malware enters company networks through a malicious email, which, once opened, encrypts all the data on every device connected to the network. The email is forwarded to all contacts automatically to infect the greatest number of devices. Companies of all sizes and in all sectors are forced to pay a ransom to decrypt their data or to replace their infected devices.

At Splunk, we’re working on shaping the future. Our experts are embracing new developments, focusing on the future of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), IT operations, security and IoT. Pulling together insights from our thousands of customers and our dedicated research teams, our experts have assembled a shortlist of the top predictions for 2019.

From the report, “Widespread data breaches, the EMV migration, and efforts to extend the longevity of the SSN, have created an ideal environment in which synthetic identity fraud is flourishing. Furthermore, consumers’ physical and digital footprints are becoming more complicated, meandering across locations, devices, and geographies. This makes it more difficult than ever to differentiate legitimate user behavior from fraudsters. Businesses need to prevent synthetic identities from entering their ecosystems by understanding anomalies to individual user behavior and helping to correlate the seemingly disconnected events and security incidents in real time. Combining historical and real-time data and leveraging machine learning to analyze individual behavior across channels can reveal complex patterns to help detect and block synthetic identities without causing friction for real customers.”

The ThreatMetrix Cybercrime Report: Q1 2017 is based on actual cybercrime attacks from January – March 2017 that were detected by the ThreatMetrix Digital Identity Network (The Network) during real-time analysis and interdiction of fraudulent online payments, logins and new account applications. The Network provides visibility and insight into traffic patterns and emerging threats. The Network analyzes close to two billion transactions per month, over 45% of which originate from mobile devices. These transactions are analyzed for legitimacy based on hundreds of attributes, including device identification, geolocation, previous history and behavioral analytics. The Network and its real-time policy engine provide unique insight into users’ digital identities, even as they move between applications, devices, and networks. ThreatMetrix customers benefit from a global view of risks, based on these attributes and rules that are custom-tuned specifically for their businesses. Attacks discussed are from “high-risk” transactions scored by ThreatMetrix customers.

This report provides insight into threat hunting and the challenge of returning the balance of power for security from the attackers to the defenders.

The Law Firm Cybersecurity Scorecard is issued quarterly and is part of their commitment to thoroughly study, understand, and report on the imminent amount and magnitude of threats faced by law firms today as well as the steps they are taking to mitigate the threat. To that point, per a recent Law 3603 report, law firm Managing Partners list cybersecurity as their number three priority, behind financial profits and generating revenue. Even though cybersecurity seems to be an area of particular focus, this scorecard will illustrate that law firms continue to struggle with making operational investments and instituting practices that do not provide a quantifiable financial return. Thus, they jeopardize their reputations, client relationships, and in some cases, financial well-being.

The eighth edition of the NetDiligence® Cyber Claims Study offers insights for business innovation. In the same way that a business gains operational perspective by going through an audit, both the insurer and the insured can use the findings of this research to inform decision making and risk management.

Data breaches have become a risk to every law firm throughout the world regardless of the number of attorneys, revenues or practice areas. The Law Firm Cybersecurity Scorecard is developed by LOGICFORCE and published regularly to educate the legal industry on the current state of cybersecurity preparedness.

In recent months, Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services has seen the number of reported ransomware incidents climb again. The varieties of ransomware and the differing technical abilities of the criminals make effective response especially challenging. Breach response services, such as forensics and legal counsel, are often necessary in ransomware attacks to determine the attack vector and level of access obtained by the attacker. If the attacker accessed or exfiltrated personally identifiable information or protected health information, notification to affected individuals may be required by law.

This report is an annual Cyber Claims Study. It includes informative numerical and graphical descrip-tions of the types of data exposed, causes of loss, business sectors involved, sizes of affected organizations, insider involvement, and third party involvement. It also includes several new analyses: Cloud Involvement, Cyber Extortion/Ransomware, Phishing, Phishing and Wire Transfer Fraud, POS-Related/Common Point of Purchase/CPP Investigations.

A total of 117 US insurers were found to have underwritten cyber insurance in 2015. This paper has analyzed these filings and has outlined them to provide insights for insurers that either currently offer or seek to offer cyber insurance to help them benchmark and drive decisions on underwriting and reinsurance purchase.

The fifth annual NetDiligence® Cyber Claims Study uses actual cyber liability insurance reported claims to illuminate the real costs of incidents from an insurer’s perspective. Our goal is to raise awareness about cyber risk within the risk manager community.

This 81 page report first highlights a few trends shaping the cyber insurance market and profiles 35 vendors that are catering to cyber insurers, brokers, and reinsurers. It is based on over 60 Aite Group interviews conducted between January and June 2016 with cybersecurity vendors, insurers, brokers, actuarial consultants, attorneys, and insureds’ risk managers and information security officers.