Printers make up about a fifth of the endpoints on a corporate network. Symphion CEO Jim LaRoe says almost none of them are protected.

Printers ship with open ports, built-in servers and default admin passwords. LaRoe says many service technicians reset them to factory settings after a repair, wiping out any hardening. An attacker who controls a printer can use its trusted access to steal company credentials. Penetration testers at Rapid7 and Raxis found default printer credentials still enabled in 121 of 136 assessments.

For the insurance market, LaRoe says he has not seen a cyber application ask about printers. He offers the questions he would ask instead: What's your plan? How do you know it's working? How do you prove it? He also explains why hospitals still depend on printers and what an unprotected fleet can cost. He closes on zero trust and machine identity as certificate lifespans shrink.

Read the article: https://cyberinsurancenews.org/printer-security-symphion-laroe-podcast/

Jim LaRoe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jim-laroe-1794182/

Symphion: https://www.symphion.com/

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Marketing data security is a CMO's problem. Graylog CMO Kimber Spradlin returns to explain how cheap plugins, tracking pixels and AI tools add risk, and why every CMO should know their CISO.

Marketing holds a lot of customer data across a lot of systems. Spradlin covers what that data is, how the pieces add up to a profile, and where the risk hides in the martech stack. She explains why the CISO is often the last executive a CMO talks to, what a breach does to a brand, and why marketing should help answer the cyber insurance application.

Her advice for any CMO who doesn't know the CISO: "Find out for sure. That's step one."

Read the article: www.cyberinsurancenews.org

Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/eNyKM6mB2G0

Kimber Spradlin on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimberspradlin/

Graylog: https://graylog.org/

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Think like a criminal. Act like an angel. Twenty-six years in cybersecurity led Jonathan Palmer, CEO of CDL Cyber Intelligence, to that motto.

Criminals case a target before they strike. Palmer explains how dark web monitoring shows them doing it, often months before an attack lands. A Marsh McLennan study with Searchlight Cyber found organizations with compromised accounts on the dark web were about 2.5 times as likely to suffer a cyber incident.

Palmer also tells the story of how a cup of tea in a Leeds basement started his career in encryption. He explains why a five-person yoga studio and a global company can fall for the same fraud, and why attackers often go after your suppliers instead of you.

For the insurance market, Palmer argues dark web intelligence can give underwriters a sharper view of risk than a self-certified questionnaire. He also covers what CISOs struggle to tell their boards, why tabletop exercises matter, and why shadow AI is the first thing to audit in 2026.

Read the article: https://cyberinsurancenews.org/dark-web-monitoring-cdl-cyber-palmer-podcast/

Jonathan Palmer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-palmer-1320551/

CDL Cyber Intelligence: https://www.cdlcyber.com/

More on the Marsh McLennan and Searchlight Cyber study: https://cyberinsurancenews.org/dark-web-exposures-impact-on-cyber-insurance-risk-report/

This episode is brought to you in association with CDL Cyber Intelligence.

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