Does Your Cybersecurity Meet 2022 Insurance Renewal Standards?
Does Your Cybersecurity Meet 2022 Insurance Renewal Standards?
Given the increasing volume of cyberattacks over the past year, underwriters are tightening eligibility requirements for cybersecurity coverage. Learn how to put in place the necessary security controls to safeguard your business and secure insurance coverage.
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Think your financial institution is immune to ransomware? Think again.
Many organizations in the financial services sector don’t expect to be hit by ransomware. In the recent State of Ransomware in Financial Services 2021 survey by Sophos, 119 financial services respondents indicated that their organizations were not hit by any ransomware attacks in the past year, and they do not expect to be hit by them in the future either.
The respondents mentioned that their confidence relied on the following beliefs:
- They are not targets for ransomware
- They possess cybersecurity insurance against ransomware
- They have air-gapped backups to restore any lost data
- They work with specialist cybersecurity companies which run full Security Operations Centers (SOC)
- They have anti-ransomware technology in place
- They have trained IT security staff who can hinder ransomware attacks
It’s not all good news. Some results are cause for concern. Many financial services respondents that don’t expect to be hit (61%) are putting their faith in approaches that don’t offer any protection from ransomware.
- 41% cited cybersecurity insurance against ransomware. Insurance helps cover the cost of dealing with an attack, but doesn’t stop the attack itself.
- 42% cited air-gapped backups. While backups are valuable tools for restoring data post attack, they don’t stop you getting hit.
While many organizations believe they have the correct safeguards in place to mitigate ransomware attacks, 11% believe that they are not a target of ransomware at all. Sadly, this is not true. No organization is safe. So, what are financial institutions to do?
While advanced and automated technologies are essential elements of an effective anti-ransomware defense, stopping hands-on attackers also requires human monitoring and intervention by skilled professionals. Whether in-house staff or outsourced pros, human experts are uniquely able to identify some of the tell-tale signs that ransomware attackers have you in their sights. It is strongly recommended that all organizations build up their human expertise in the face of the ongoing ransomware threat.
Aunalytics Wins a 2021 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx
South Bend, IN (October 19, 2021) - Aunalytics, a leading data platform company delivering Insights-as-a-Service for enterprise businesses, announced today that it has received a 2021 Digital Innovator Award from Intellyx, an analyst firm dedicated to digital transformation.
As an industry analyst firm that focuses on enterprise digital transformation and the disruptive technology providers that drive it, Intellyx interacts with numerous innovators in the enterprise IT marketplace. Intellyx established the Digital Innovator Awards to honor technology providers that are chosen through the firm’s rigorous briefing selection process and deliver a successful briefing.
“At Intellyx, we get dozens of PR pitches each day from a wide range of vendors,” said Jason Bloomberg, President of Intellyx. “We will only set up briefings with the most disruptive and innovative firms in their space. That’s why it made sense for us to call out the companies that made the cut.”
Aunalytics offers a robust, cloud-native data platform built to enable universal data access, powerful analytics, and AI-driven answers. Customers can turn data into answers with the secure, reliable, and scalable data platform deployed and managed by technology and data experts as a service. The platform represents Aunalytics’ unique ability to unify all the elements necessary to process data and deliver AI end-to-end, from cloud infrastructure to data acquisition, organization, and machine learning models – all managed and run by Aunalytics as a secure managed service. And, while typically large enterprises are in a better position to afford advanced database and analytics technology, Aunalytics pairs its platform with access to its team’s expertise to help mid-market companies compete with enterprise companies.
“We’re honored to have been selected by a respected analyst firm such as Intellyx to receive its 2021 Digital Innovation Awards,” said Rich Carlton, President of Aunalytics. “It is a testament to the value we bring to our customers who are challenged with the need to achieve critical insights to operate more efficiently and gain a competitive edge.”
For more details on the award and to see other winning vendors in this group, visit the 2021 Intellyx Digital Innovator awards page here.
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About Aunalytics
Aunalytics is a data platform company delivering answers for your business. Named a Digital Innovator by analyst firm Intellyx, and selected for the prestigious Inc. 5000 list, Aunalytics provides Insights-as-a-Service to answer enterprise and midsize companies’ most important IT and business questions. The Aunalytics® cloud-native data platform is built for universal data access, advanced analytics and AI while unifying disparate data silos into a single golden record of accurate, actionable business information. Its DaybreakTM industry intelligent data mart combined with the power of the Aunalytics data platform provides industry-specific data models with built-in queries and AI to ensure access to timely, accurate data and answers to critical business and IT questions. Through its side-by-side digital transformation model, Aunalytics provides on-demand scalable access to technology, data science, and AI experts to seamlessly transform customers’ businesses. To learn more contact us at +1 855-799-DATA or visit Aunalytics at https://www.aunalytics.com or on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Top 10 Healthcare Industry Cyberattacks
Top 10 Healthcare Cyberattacks
Cybercrime targeting the healthcare industry is big business and affects organizations across the spectrum. In 2020, cyberattacks in healthcare doubled over those in 2019 by hackers trying to take advantage of operational chaos and increased demand for healthcare services during the COVID-19 global pandemic. Sensitive information found in medical records are a hot and valuable commodity on the dark web. As a result, healthcare firms have become a target for hackers because of the large amount of personal information in their possession.
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Cyberattacks and Financial Institutions in 2021
Cyberattacks and Financial Institutions in 2021: What You Need to Know, and What You Need to Do to Thwart Threats
For the past six years, the finance sector has been ranked #1 as the most cyberattacked industry. Even so, in 2020, attacks against banks and other financial institutions climbed an incredible 238% followed by a further impressive 118% increase in 2021.
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2021 Grand Rapids IT Symposium
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Aunalytics debuts new managed services offering with embedded security at the Grand Rapids IT Symposium
Aunalytics is excited to showcase its new Secure Managed Services offering at the Grand Rapids IT Symposium. The new service stack combines mission critical IT services leveraging zero trust end-to-end security to ensure people and data are protected regardless of location.
Aunalytics Unveils Secure Managed Services with Integrated Security
Next-Generation Technology Suite Delivers Secure Managed IT to Power Business
South Bend, IN (September 27, 2021) – Aunalytics, a leading data platform company delivering Insights-as-a-Service for enterprise businesses, today announced the company’s Secure Managed Services offering. The new service stack combines mission critical IT services leveraging zero trust end-to-end security to ensure people and data are protected regardless of location.
Organizational data is extremely valuable to the longevity and success of a business. The ever-changing threat landscape presents serious risks to organizations because of bad actors working to steal and encrypt important operational data. In addition to phishing scams and other common threats, security incidents over the last 12 months have included malware, ransomware, and crypto-jacking – made worse through compromised accounts and exposed data. In 2020, malware attacks increased by 358% and ransomware attacks by 435% over attacks in 2019.
As a trusted partner, Aunalytics is no longer offering its enterprise-class IT services without integrated security. Next generation managed services now must include embedded security that adapts as threats emerge. Next generation security requires focus on users and access to corporate data by a distributed workforce often working from remote locations, home offices or using personal devices to access company systems and data. Aunalytics understands this requirement and has developed the new Secure Managed Services stack with a full suite of managed IT and integrated security services to empower business with a complete, all-encompassing approach.
New Aunalytics Secure Managed Services features include:
- 24/7/365 Monitoring & Management – Mitigate risks to valuable infrastructure going down or becoming unavailable. Aunalytics manages hardware and software, and works proactively to address any issues.
- Synchronized Network Security Platform – Protect networks and endpoints from advanced threats with next-generation anti-virus protection and management.
- Workstation & Server Patching – Ensure servers and workstations are always protected through operating system security patching, including feature releases.
- Internet Protection – Guard against Internet threats with Sophos Central and Cisco Umbrella combined solution providing website protection, DNS filtering and roaming DNS protection.
- Email Filtering and Security – Protect email inboxes for all employees with Microsoft Defender (Advanced Threat Protection).
- Office 365 Management and Security – Manage and protect Office 365 instances with Microsoft Defender and Azure Security.
- Multi-Factor Authentication – Control Identity and access management with Duo or Okta based multi-factor authentication solutions.
- Data and Device Encryption Management – Encrypt data and control privacy with Sophos Central Encryption.
- Security Awareness Training – Prepare employees to be more security-aware. As attacks are more people-focused than ever, Aunalytics will help drive effective security training and testing campaigns.
For highly regulated industries, a managed security operations center (SOC) is typically the most important requirement of modern IT security. However, SOCs are expensive, complicated, and far beyond the reach of most small and medium size enterprises. Aunalytics now offers an Advanced Security services stack, so that clients can focus on growing their businesses while Aunalytics experts provide an SOC to continuously monitor and manage threats. Similarly, Aunalytics now offers Advanced Compliance managed services to provide guidance and expertise for clients to meet compliance standards such as SOC, HIPAA, PCI, FFIEC, and NIST 800-171, 800-53 (CMMC & FedRAMP).
“A large number of organizations are not appropriately equipped to handle 24×7 monitoring of network, systems infrastructure, and security operations,” said Paula Musich, Research Director, Enterprise Management Associates. “The integration of these and other important capabilities into Aunalytics’ managed services suite is a critical step to ensuring resilience in the event of a potentially destructive attack.”
“We have made the paradigm shift from trying to operationalize a collection of IT and security tools to a holistic view of stability and security that adapts as ever-changing threats evolve,” said Kerry Vickers, Chief Information Security Officer, Aunalytics.
To learn more about the Secure Managed Services Platform, contact Info@Aunalytics.com.
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About Aunalytics
Aunalytics is a data platform company delivering answers for your business. Aunalytics provides Insights-as-a-Service to answer enterprise and mid-sized companies’ most important IT and business questions. The Aunalytics® cloud-native data platform is built for universal data access, advanced analytics and AI while unifying disparate data silos into a single golden record of accurate, actionable business information. Its Daybreak™ industry intelligent data mart combined with the power of the Aunalytics data platform provides industry-specific data models with built-in queries and AI to ensure access to timely, accurate data and answers to critical business and IT questions. Through its side-by-side digital transformation model, Aunalytics provides on-demand scalable access to technology, data science, and AI experts to seamlessly transform customers’ businesses. To learn more contact us at 1 855-799-DATA or visit Aunalytics at https://www.aunalytics.com or on Twitter and LinkedIn.
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Top 10 Cyberattacked Industries in 2020
According to IBM in its X-Force Threat Intelligence Index, the top 10 industries suffering the most cyberattacks in 2020 were:
1. Finance and Insurance
Most Common Type of Attack: Server access attack
Since 2016, the finance and insurance industry has been the most attacked industry. In 2020, attacks increased over 2019 by 238%. Hackers seeking to profit financially from attacks often hit this industry. Paralyzing banks is usually less of a goal with attacks on this industry, but accessing internal systems can yield hefty illicit returns. However, during the pandemic, hackers seeking to paralyze infrastructure including nation-state cyber criminals also hit banking institutions to cause chaos.
2. Manufacturing
Most Common Type of Attack: Ransomware
The attacks against manufacturers doubled in 2020 compared to 2019. 21% of all 2020 ransomware cyberattacks hit the manufacturing industry. However, this industry also saw 4X more BEC attacks than any other industry, and a significant number of data theft attacks. Hackers renewed interest in this industry, likely trying to take advantage of supply chain disruption and operational chaos caused by the global pandemic, as consumers saw (and continue to experience) shortages in manufactured goods.
3. Energy
Most Common Type of Attack: Data theft
35% of attacks in the energy sector involved data theft, while only 6% involved ransomware. This was likely indicative of hacker motivations to hit this industry including IP theft, customer data theft and extorsion. BEC and server access attacks were also notable in this industry.
4. Retail
Most Common Type of Attack: Credential theft
Attacks on the retail industry were actually lower in 2020 than in 2019. This was likely due to fewer retail transactions taking place during the 2020 (less room to hide as a hacker). Retail is typically a target because of the high volume of credit card and financial transactions.
5. Professional Services
Most Common Type of Attack: Ransomware
Professional services saw the highest percentage of attacks from ransomware attacks of any industry. Data theft and server access attacks were also common in 2020. These organizations are typically attractive to cyber criminals because they serve as a path to further victims and often hold confidential data about customers.
6. Government
Most Common Type of Attack: Ransomware
Government received the second highest number of ransomware attacks of the industries, totaling a third of the attacks that this industry faced. Yet, only 38% of state and local government employees have been trained on ransomware prevention. This industry also faced a large burden in moving operations to accommodate work from home environments, as much of this industry had all team members working on site, and was not equipped for moving a remote workforce. Data theft attacks were also notable.
7. Healthcare
Most Common Type of Attack: Ransomware
The healthcare industry suffered twice as many cyberattacks in 2020 than in 2019, likely due to hackers taking advantage of operational chaos caused by the global pandemic, shifts in workforce to cover emergency medical care while furloughing operational and administrative staff due to revenue challenges caused by elective medical services being put on hold. Hackers, including nation-states looking to disrupt and steal data from organizations in this industry, targeted those in medical research and development attempting to invent COVID-19 vaccines, as well as frontline providers.
8. Media
Most Common Type of Attack: Malicious domain name squatting
90% of malicious domain name spoofing attempts targeted the media. This sector includes telecommunications and mobile communications providers, as well as media and social media outlets that can play a critical role in political outcomes, especially during election years. The timing of 2020 being a U.S. presidential election year likely drove this type of attack in this industry.
9. Transportation
Most Common Type of Attack: Malicious insider / misconfiguration
Attacks against the transportation industry were much lower in 2020, likely because everyone was sheltering in place and travel bans existed across the globe during 2020. This industry ranked #3 in 2019 and fell to #9 in 2020.
10. Education
Most Common Type of Attack: Spam / adware
Education has historically been vulnerable to cyberattacks due to a large decentralized surface area of users hard to control with staff and students regularly logging into systems from home to complete and grade course work. However, the user and device based security measures that this distributed surface area drove for security protection before the pandemic, better equipped education for security operations during the pandemic than other industries accustomed to relying on firewall protection.
Aunalytics Accelerates Insights-as-a-Service Offering Through Ohio Expansion
South Bend, IN (July 15, 2021) - Aunalytics, a leading data platform company delivering Insights-as-a-Service to answer the most important business and IT questions, today reported expansion of operations into Ohio. Aunalytics acquired Ohio-based managed services provider NetGain in February 2021 and today announces integration and rebranding of the Ohio operations and data centers as Aunalytics. Leveraging NetGain’s footprint throughout Ohio, Aunalytics extends its solution portfolio, including AunsightTM Golden Record and the DaybreakTM Analytic Database, to new customers in the region.
With Aunalytics’ expansion, the company will continue providing IT and security expertise to government and mid-market businesses in the areas of financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and professional services. Aunalytics will continue to offer state-of-the-art cloud and managed services to companies in the region, adding data cleansing, data management and machine learning powered data analytics services that allow Ohio businesses to strengthen their competitive edge and achieve greater success.
The integration of NetGain allows for a greater footprint in Columbus and Dayton. Growing companies in the state will benefit from the additional technology efficiencies and features enabled, allowing for increased revenues and lower operational costs. Business leaders seeking sound IT foundations have relied on quality managed services for years with NetGain, and with digital transformation top-of-mind across industries, Aunalytics is poised to bring best-of-breed solutions to clients looking to advance their business objectives.
"Digital transformation remains a top priority for our organization and is absolutely critical to drive the business forward," said Tom Kiefer, CFO, Environmental Management Services, Inc. (EMSI). "We rely on the advanced insights available through our strategic IT partner, helping us to achieve a higher level of business intelligence from multiple data sources, across all operational areas."
“NetGain’s legacy as an ISP brings a strong network management/network engineering expertise and a technology suite for multi-site locations. Together, the integrated companies will offer ironclad redundancy, reliability, and IT solutions to meet any business challenge,” said Kelly Jones, vice president of Integration Services at Aunalytics. “This is complemented with the deep knowledge of our team, making Aunalytics well-positioned to deliver strategic computing services and build-out resilient IT stacks for all clients.”
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About Aunalytics
Aunalytics is a data platform company delivering answers for your business. Aunalytics provides Insights-as-a-Service to answer enterprise and mid-sized companies’ most important IT and business questions. The Aunalytics® cloud-native data platform is built for universal data access, advanced analytics and AI while unifying disparate data silos into a single golden record of accurate, actionable business information. Its DaybreakTM industry intelligent data mart combined with the power of the Aunalytics data platform provides industry-specific data models with built-in queries and AI to ensure access to timely, accurate data and answers to critical business and IT questions. Through its side-by-side digital transformation model, Aunalytics provides on-demand scalable access to technology, data science, and AI experts to seamlessly transform customers’ businesses. To learn more contact us at +1 855-799-DATA or visit Aunalytics at https://www.aunalytics.com or on Twitter and LinkedIn.
PR Contact:
Denise Nelson
The Ventana Group for Aunalytics
(925) 858-5198
dnelson@theventanagroup.com
