A friend when you need one...

The below excerpt of an article I was interviewed for back in 2016 is still relevant today....

Author/Credit: Scot Kersgaard/Insurance Business

Full Article - https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/cyber/a-friend-when-you-need-one-29036.aspx

Obuchowski is practice leader for digital forensics and incident response services as well as director of security and privacy consulting for RSM, a global tax, consulting and audit firm with 38,000 employees in 760 offices in 120 countries.

He’s been doing digital forensics work for nearly half his life, much of that time in law enforcement.

“Awareness is steamrolling. A few years ago a company had to take a public flogging before they were interested in cyber security or cyber insurance,” he said. Four or five years ago, he said he would go to investigate an incident and the client would say to him “as long as you’re here, what should we be doing to make sure this doesn’t happen again?

“Risk assessment was secondary. Companies didn’t act on it until after it happened,” he said.

“There are a lot more conversations about insurance today. Four or five years ago, companies didn’t have cyber insurance and didn’t want to talk about it. Today, people want to talk about it. They want to learn how insurance can help protect them in the event of a cyber incident.”

Full Article - https://www.insurancebusinessmag.com/us/news/cyber/a-friend-when-you-need-one-29036.aspx