SpaceX and T-Mobile rush to enable emergency Starlink direct-to-cell texting after a hurricane, helping restore communications in affected states. Kevin Mandiant shares insights on how boards can better understand cybersecurity through a risk matrix, and Ann Neuberger, U.S. National Security Advisor for Cyber, weighs in on the debate over ransomware insurance policies.
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Hey everyone, I'm Drex and this is the Two Minute Drill, where I do three quick stories twice a week, all part of one great community, the 229 Cyber and Risk Community here at This Week Health. Today's Two Minute Drill is brought to you by ORDR, the Asset Inventory and Intelligence Platform. Did you know that you can know everything about everything on your network, every vulnerability, every risk, every user, everything, in real time?
Find out more at order. net slash healthcare. Thanks for joining me today. Here's some stuff you might want to know about. SpaceX and T Mobile have received emergency authority from the FCC to enable Starlink direct to cell texting, which will provide crucial coverage for many of the folks trying to communicate since the hurricane hit several states, including North Carolina.
There's probably still some bugs to work out. And that'll probably be going on for a while. It wasn't supposed to be available, uh, quite this quickly. And if you're watching the weather, you know that the next storm, Hurricane Milton, is on its way to Florida. And just as a reminder, stay a little paranoid.
Big emergencies like this are the perfect situation for dirtbags and scammers to try to take advantage of you and your family. I hate to say that, but that's the world we live in today. From the website CyberScoop, there's a great article about the remarks made by Kevin Mandiant to the Mandiant Worldwide Information Security Exchange Conference, known as MYS.
Mandiant is the founder, of course, of the security firm Mandiant and a strategic advisor to Google Cloud. When he talks to boards who are clearly now interested in cybersecurity, he does his best to help them relate to the cyber issues by running it through a risk matrix. He says that boards and execs have experiences.
With making decisions based on financial risk, and that transfers to the cybersecurity discussions. He also goes through a whole list of questions he's often asked by boards, including, How do I know if my CISO is any good? It's a quick read, and it's available along with all the stories. At ThisWeekHealth.
com slash news. And finally today there's an opinion piece from Ann Neuberger, the U. S. National Security Advisor for Cyber, written in the Financial Times. She says that insurance companies must stop issuing policies that incentivize making extortion payments during ransomware attacks. And while I agree with that very much, does appear to me that this is her opinion and not A government policy announcement.
There's no new direction from the government, at least not yet. In case you didn't know it, ransomware attacks have doubled over the last 24 months. Today's two minute drill was brought to you by order. Do you know all the places your devices are talking to? You can. Bring some order to your enterprise.
Find out more at order. net slash healthcare. That's it for today's two minute drill. Thanks for being here. Stay a little paranoid. I'll see you around campus.