{"id":53312,"date":"2022-10-11T07:51:44","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T14:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53312"},"modified":"2022-10-11T09:52:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T16:52:12","slug":"government-weighs-in-on-cyber-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=53312","title":{"rendered":"Government weighs in on cyber costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As cyberattacks continue to rise, the federal government is contemplating whether it should step in to help private insurance companies cover some of the\u00a0<a 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cases,\u00a0denied coverage for state-sponsored cyberattacks as their frequency has surged over the past few years.<\/li>\n<li>Currently, the U.S. government does not have a federally backed cyber insurance program to deal with destructive cyberattacks.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI think what you\u2019re seeing is the government sort of thinking about this from their side \u2026 if they should be doing more to help companies that are hit and, if so, how should they define what the thresholds are,\u201d said\u00a0Josephine Wolff, an associate professor of cybersecurity policy at the Tufts University Fletcher School.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As cyberattacks continue to rise, 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