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FICO Named Cyber Risk Quantification Category Leader for Second Year Running

riskacademy — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 08:20:50 +0000

LONDON, Sept. 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Global analytics and technology provider FICO has just been named a category leader for the second year running in the new Chartis Research report – Cyber Risk Quantification Solutions, 2020: Market Update and Vendor Landscape.

More information: https://www.fico.com/en/products/cyber-risk-score

“Cyber risk is a threat to every modern business, and those risks present themselves directly and throughout organizations’ extended supply chains,” said Manish Karir, vice president of Product Management at FICO. “We are proud of the intelligence our FICO Cyber Risk Score offers organizations in their efforts to manage and reduce cyber risk.”

Chartis Research is the leading provider of research and analysis on the global market for risk technology. Its new report reviews the market for cyber risk solutions and explores major trends and developments, including an assessment of the vendor landscape – in which FICO has been a category leader for the past two years running.

The FICO® Cyber Risk Score is the only predictive cyber security assessment with a…

Third of people ‘hold chief executive personally responsible for cyber attacks’

riskacademy — Mon, 08 Jun 2020 01:51:52 +0000

Chief executives should be held personally responsible for cyberattacks, with many users believing they should also be compensated for such breaches, new research suggests.

A survey by data protection firm Veritas Technologies found that more than a third (35%) of UK consumers would see a business leader as personally responsible if a cyber breach of that business occurs.

It suggests that more than two-thirds (68%) believe they should be compensated when incidents such as ransomware attacks compromise their data, while 8% said they would like to see chief executives sent to prison if such a breach does take place.

Ransomware attacks involve hackers gaining access to a database and demanding payment in order to release control of it back to the business and its users.

Simon Jelley, vice president of product management at Veritas Technologies, said: “As consumers, we are increasingly well-educated about ransomware, so we’re unforgiving of businesses that don’t take it as seriously as we do ourselves.”

The research showed that 79% of those asked said they expected a business to have software protection in place, and 62% said back-up copies of data should also be used.

“Now,…