Bluepurple Pulse: week ending January 1st

Happy New Year everyone..

Welcome to the weekly highlights and analysis of the blueteamsec subreddit (and my wider reading). Not everything makes it in, but the best bits do.

Operationally this week not much beyond the usual background noise.

In the high-level this week:

• Cyber attacks set to become ‘uninsurable’, says Zurich chief - Unlikely to be true, but underwriting will become more data driven. We have covered some of the loss ratios in cyber for the US based underwriters previously. For those interested in cyber insurance I recommend the bi-weekly podcast Cyber Leaders & Insurance Leaders which is hosted by Anthony Hess.

• Cyber Risk Insight Index - The largest claims category in Q3 2022 is fraudulent funds transfers. Ransomware accounts for only 15% of total claims - compared to 34% in Q3 2022. This is in of itself interesting given the headline previously.

• Cybersecurity: EU holds 8th dialogue with the United States - from December 16th 2022 - the headlines are: build more capacity, hold states accountable to …