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Social Engineering and How To Protect Your Computer From Hackers, Viruses, and Spies

January 21, 2020 / by KMRD Partners / Announcements, Blog, From Brian's Desk, Insurance Coverage / 0 comments

While Social Engineering may sound like a way to encourage people to mingle at a dinner party, it is actually a devious plot created by hackers and spies to infiltrate your computer and business networks through a number of nefarious tactics, including the following: Phishing Chances are you’ve been the target of a phishing attack […]

GDPR Compliance In The USA And 7 Ways To Prepare Your Business

December 11, 2019 / by KMRD Partners / Blog, From Brian's Desk, Insurance Coverage

While the scope and territorial reach of European Union’s GDPR is broader, States have started the process of “falling in line” with GDPR. Until the Federal Government can reach bi-partisan grounds on a single law for the whole country, we are going to see more states being inspired by GDPR and one another. In varying […]

Social Engineering Webinar: How Criminals Exploit Human Behavior and How to Protect Your Enterprise

November 20, 2019 / by KMRD Partners / Blog, From Brian's Desk, General, Insurance Coverage

Social engineering is the art of exploiting human psychology to gain access to buildings, systems or data. Join us for this free webinar to learn how social engineering works and what to do to protect employees and your enterprise. Join top risk management and cyber insurance experts for an interactive discussion on how to protect […]

Cyber Risk Transfer: Can you transfer your cyber / privacy risk contractually?

March 8, 2019 / by KMRD Partners / Blog, From Brian's Desk, Insurance Coverage / 0 comments

With the advent of more frequent privacy breaches, sophisticated companies are trying to push risk contractually to their vendors and even their clients. Reading a cloud hosting contract or other cloud software platform agreement, this cyber risk transfer trend is evident. Questions about cyber risk transfer which need answers – 1 – Can organizations obtain additional […]

10 Situations When You Need Pollution Liability Insurance

June 14, 2017 / by KMRD Partners / From Brian's Desk, Insurance Coverage / 0 comments

Oil and chemical companies understand the need for pollution liability insurance coverage. But they aren’t the only ones with potential exposure to pollution-related incidents. In fact, many other types of companies have uninsured pollution exposures. And it’s possible there are literally thousands of companies exposed and unaware of the financial risk they currently face. We can’t know for sure […]