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WEB-BASED CORPORATE EMAIL COMPROMISES RAPIDLY INCREASING

This article is a follow through to CFC Underwriting’s previous Cyber Warning notice in July this year. Email compromise is an issue massively on the rise, and taking a couple of risk management steps can hugely decrease your risk. The below “phases” may be written in ‘techie speak’, but we would encourage all businesses to […]

CYBER CLAIMS BEING LED BY ORGANISED CRIMINAL GANGS – CFC

Malicious malware, such as NotPetya, and nation-state hacking have cast a dark shadow over the cyber insurance landscape, and while the threats are real, that’s just the top of the pyramid of what’s driving cyber claims. CFC Underwriting’s chief innovation officer can count on one hand the number of claims that the insurance company has […]

WHAT TO DO IF YOU’RE NOT HAPPY WITH YOUR CLAIM

Since the initial publishing of this article, the Financial Ombudsman Service has been replaced with the Australian Financial Complaints Authority; please click here for more information. Austbrokers Terrace is here to represent all of its clients, and is a ‘first port of call’ for claims disputes. As a side-note to this article — using an […]

5 TIPS TO SPOT A FAKE WEBSITE

As technology improves and our reliance on it increases, so too does the ability of scammers to con us out of paying for items that will never arrive. Fake websites that take your money while harvesting your credit card and bank details are everywhere these days and are cleverly designed to look genuine and convincing, […]

NDB SCHEME DRIVING CYBER INSURANCE TAKE-UP

CFC Underwriting has revealed it has seen 107% growth in new cyber insurance business in Australia over the past year. According to the specialist firm, the introduction of the Notifiable Data Breaches (NDB) scheme was the key driver in the take-up. “We attribute much of this growth to awareness of the impending legislation surrounding notification, […]

COUNTING THE REAL COST OF CYBER ATTACKS

COUNTING THE REAL COST OF CYBER ATTACKS

Cyber attacks are costing large Australian enterprises an average of $8.3 million a year, but the real costs could be much higher. In a study sponsored by HP Enterprise Security, the US-based Ponemon Institute questioned 30 large Australian organisations on their experience with cyber attacks over a four-week period and extrapolated its findings to a […]

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