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Ransomware's Impact On Government Cybersecurity

In our most recent BitSight Insights report, we discuss the pervasive issue that is ransomware. The report states that education has the highest rate of ransomware across all industries—and government comes in second. 

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13% Of The Higher Education Sector Has Been Infected With Ransomware

Hackers look at ransomware as a quick payday, so they are very opportunistic in terms of their ransomware attack strategy. They cast a wide net, but tend to focus on target industries they think are more likely to click their links.

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The Underlying Threat to the Supply Chain: Cloud Service Providers

Organizations have come to depend on cloud service providers for key services - from email and domain registrars, to payment processors and certificate authorities. According to the 2015 Cloud Computing Survey by IDG, 72% of organizations...

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BitSight Insights: Risk Degrees of Separation

On October 15, 2015, UltraDNS experienced a technical issue that led to a widely publicized outage, bringing down websites for Netflix, Expedia, and others for over an hour. In a separate incident on April 8, 2015, Sendgrid, a cloud-based...

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Beyond Hurricanes: The 4th Party Side of Cyber Aggregate Risk

On August 24, 1992, Hurricane Andrew devastated South Florida and Louisiana, leaving a trail of destruction in its path. The estimated payout from insurance claims totaled $15.5 billion ($26.4 billion in 2015 dollars). Due to the...

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