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Building a CyberInsurance Infrastructure in the Age of Ransomware — Virtualization Review

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Building a CyberInsurance Infrastructure in the Age of Ransomware

In the age of ransomware, John O’Neill Sr., chief technologist at AWS Solutions, has become a CyberInsurance expert who guides clients through the intricacies of dealing with insurance companies who really don’t want to pay out unless they have to.

“Insurance companies are for profit, and they are losing a lot of money on CyberInsurance right now,” says the sought-after speaker at live tech events. “So they’re trying to tighten up those losses and make it make it harder for them to lose money when they pay out on these claims.”

He will be explaining more about that when he shares his expertise in a hands-on TechMentor training seminar titled Building a CyberInsurance Compliant Security Infrastructure, taking place Sept. 7-8.

The workshop is for IT support professionals, cybersecurity pros and Chief Information Security Officers who must become, and remain, well versed in the nuances of cyberinsurance. When attackers strike and operations suffer, good cyberinsurance may make the difference between a few stressful days, or catastrophic monetary losses.

At the TechMentor event, attendees will learn:

  • How to create advanced protection and recovery designs including Secure Fabric and Rapidly Deployable Secure Network architectures
  • About creating effective Incident Response Plans, Business Continuity Plans, and Disaster Recovery plans
  • The top things to do now, preventing compliance heartbreak at renewal
  • Finish this seminar with the tools and skills to obtain CyberInsurance policies with the highest coverages, lowest deductibles, and lowest premiums

He might also help attendees create a CyberInsurance policies checklist like the one below that he used for a previous event in a different venue.


A High-Level CyberInsurance Polices Checklist
[Click on image for larger view.] A High-Level CyberInsurance Polices Checklist

We recently caught up with O’Neill Sr. to learn more about his event and CyberInsurance in general in a short…

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Asus TUF Gaming TUF-AX4200 router review

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Man, Asus makes a lot of routers. This one, built of charcoal-coloured plastic Batman might consider too aggressively angular, is a dual-band Wi-Fi 6 job with four Ethernet ports, four antennas, and a single USB port.

Compared with some, that’s an uninspiring number of appendages, but it really is all you need for a satisfying network experience if you’re just trying to share a broadband hookup between a gaming PC, a smart TV, and everybody’s phone. Asus also makes a point of the AX4200’s open NAT and ease of port forwarding, which will make stable online gaming connections easier.

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NordVPN Review | Money

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A VPN can be a useful tool for internet users interested in online privacy or in masking the country in which they live. VPN services encrypt your private data and can hide your physical location while you browse the web.

As a result, other people on your network can’t view or steal your information. VPNs are also popular with those who wish to access services, such as streaming content providers, that may block access to certain content, depending on the country in which your IP address suggests you live.

However, the FTC warns that not every VPN service is trustworthy or effective. That’s why you should always check a VPN service’s reviews — from both experts like Money and users on sites such as TrustPilot — and what permissions you’ll need to grant it before downloading.

With 14 million users worldwide, NordVPN is one of the most popular VPN services around. See if it’s the right fit for you by reading this NordVPN review.

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A VPN service with fast speeds

VPNs all tend to slow down your internet connection to some degree, since they add extra steps for your data to clear in order to fulfill their promise of increased security and privacy. NordVPN describes itself as the best VPN service on the market for fast speeds. That boast is borne out by multiple independent tests.

NordVPN pros and cons

  • Faster internet connection than most services
  • Has a double VPN feature
  • NordVPN free trial is for Android users only

Pros explained

Fast internet connection

As when a VPN is not in use, the faster a device receives data when connected to VPN service, the faster websites and videos load when browsing the internet, resulting in a better user experience. In evaluations by AV-TEST, a reputed third-party tester, NordVPN was nearly twice as fast as the next-fastest VPN provider evaluated, PrivateVPN.

Has a double encryption feature

NordVPN is among the select VPN services that offers the option for double encryption, which is accomplished by routing your traffic through two VPN servers instead of one. Dubbed Double VPN by NordVPN, this feature slows internet speeds when it’s activated and isn’t needed by all users. But this…

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CleanMyMac – Review 2023 – PCMag Middle East

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Most antivirus companies that publish macOS antivirus tools started with Windows security products. Not Kyiv-based MacPaw, which makes CleanMyMac. CleanMyMac is thoroughly Mac-focused, combining antivirus protection with a broad range of features to clean and tune your Mac. The cleanup features are effective and truly useful. The core antivirus visibly does its job, but it lacks some standard features and doesn’t have any lab test results.

By contrast, Bitdefender Antivirus for Mac and Norton 360 Deluxe for Mac hold perfect scores from AV-Test, and Bitdefender adds a perfect score from AV-Comparatives. Norton is a cross-platform security suite that includes a no-limits VPN and 50GB of storage for your (Windows) online backups. Bitdefender also packs a VPN, ransomware protection, and a few other bonuses. Neither does as much to clean up and speed up your Mac as CleanMyMac does, but these two are our Editors’ Choice antivirus picks for the Mac.

Note that CleanMyMac’s online description clearly states that it “fights off malware, adware, ransomware, and all other ‘wares’ specific to macOS.” I’m evaluating this program as an antivirus utility for Macs, one that happens to have a big collection of bonus tools to clean and tune your Mac. A review focused on the cleanup side might well take a different approach.

How Much Does CleanMyMac Cost?

A one-year one-Mac subscription for CleanMyMac costs $39.95, the same (or nearly so) as Bitdefender, ESET, Trend Micro Antivirus for Mac, and Webroot SecureAnywhere Antivirus for Mac. After that, it gets confusing. The list price for a two-device CleanMyMac subscription is $79.90, and for five devices it goes up to a whopping $199.75. But those prices are cut by a volume discount (always active) and a daily coupon discount. Ignoring the coupon discount, you pay $59.95 for two licenses after the volume discount, about the same as F-Secure Safe for Mac. A five-device subscription will run you $89.95. Once you get past the discount confusion, CleanMyMac’s pricing is in line with the competition.

Avast, Avira, and AVG are free, which is handy if you didn’t budget for Mac antivirus. At the other end of the price spectrum, Norton lists…

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