Cyber insurance for Kilmarnock businesses

Kilmarnock's businesses, like their staff, tend to reuse passwords across accounts, and criminals know it. A password leaked from one service becomes a key to try on all the others.

Where the risks come from for Kilmarnock businesses

In credential stuffing, attackers take passwords leaked in other companies' breaches and try them automatically against a business's systems, betting that someone reused one. Where they have, the attacker walks straight in, no hacking required.

A Kilmarnock example

Attackers use passwords leaked elsewhere to break into a Kilmarnock business's systems, exploiting an employee who had reused one. Cyber cover meets the incident response and any loss, and the episode shows why insurers press for unique passwords and multi-factor authentication.

What cyber insurance covers

Cyber cover responds to breaches achieved through stolen or reused credentials, meeting the response, loss and liability. Insurers increasingly expect multi-factor authentication precisely because it stops this attack.

Placing it in Kilmarnock with Apex

We make sure the cover responds to the reused-password attacks that need no clever hacking at all. Apex works through one named broker and 30-plus markets. FCA authorised; established 2009.

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