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April 27, 2024
Regardless of how it happens, when your customers can’t access your service, you can’t take payments, or you can’t pay your suppliers, you can’t do business.
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April 26, 2024
Evertas crime insurance for theft and loss protects digital assets and cash stolen, lost, or damaged by external bad actors and attacks.
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April 11, 2024
In March, Evertas co-founder and CEO J. Gdanski and CSO Ryan Lackey made a trip to Texas to speak at Finney Forum.
Reinsurance for Digital Asset Crime, Theft and Fidelity
April 8, 2024
Evertas provides reinsurance—insurance one insurance company purchases from another to insulate itself from the risk of a major claim event.
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April 2, 2024
Even well-planned, well-financed, and well-intentioned projects have a tendency to under-estimate the importance of physical security.
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March 19, 2024
Don’t wait for a security incident to discover your true level of preparation—know that you definitely will face one, so it’s critical to always have a current and comprehensive Incident Readiness …
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March 8, 2024
Evertas’ CSO, Ryan Lackey, hosted a side event at ETH Denver 2024, “The Network State, Radical Life Extension and Futuristic Cities.” Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at …
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February 29, 2024
Since your company has computers, people, and things, security incidents will happen — so it’s critical to always have current security incident readiness plans in place. That way, you can mount …
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February 28, 2024
Getting ahead of security incidents with planning and practice is a perfect example of an ounce of prevention being worth a pound of cure. The worst security incidents – those resulting in the …
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February 26, 2024
Collectively, Evertas team members have worked on hundreds, if not thousands, of security incidents involving cyber, physical and reputation risk. We’ve learned that everyone gets hacked, and that the …
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February 14, 2024
The crypto ecosystem needs to step up and provide solutions that increase safety and security for investors, especially those overlooked by the traditional support systems available to large …
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January 11, 2024
Over our six years in crypto insurance, the underwriting process that Evertas created to work as a Lloyd’s coverholder has been extremely successful. The process was designed by technical experts in …
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December 1, 2023
J. Gdanski spoke about the current approach to financial regulation as both ineffective at deterring criminals and bad for non-criminals.
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October 13, 2023
In his new biography of Sam Bankman-Fried, author Michael Lewis takes the controversial step of painting SBF as more sloppily-dressed, right-place-wrong-time pioneer than deceitful anti-hero, and FTX …
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August 10, 2023
Insurance is a conservative industry with a long history, which makes it less than intuitive to many outsiders. Unusual terms like “underwriter,” “carrier” and “managing general agent” can be …
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July 20, 2023
Evertas has acquired crypto mining specialist Bitsure, in a deal that provides both organizations with elements each needs to truly meet their full potential. Together, we are the undisputed leader in …
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July 10, 2023
A set of cryptocurrencies called stablecoins have been developed whose value is tied, or "pegged", to the value of other, less-volatile assets.
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June 27, 2023
If you want to start buying and trading Bitcoin or another cryptocurrency, be sure to understand the basics of crypto first.
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June 13, 2023
Crypto mining is how digital currency is added to the blockchain network, but much more goes into the cryptocurrency mining process.
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June 6, 2023
An attacker having access to the Atomic Wallet source code is one thing. What's more significant is that the attackers were also able to hijack the company's mechanisms for compiling and distributing …
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June 2, 2023
Today we announced a dramatic expansion of crypto insurance coverage limits across multiple policy types – nearly tripling the amount of risk transfer previously available to blockchain-focused …
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May 11, 2023
Evertas offers a broad range of crypto insurance policies, each specialized to meet the unique needs of Web3, but not every policy type is suited to every crypto project.
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May 11, 2023
Directors and Officers (D&O) insurance can protect your business from financial loss from third-party claims. Learn how Evertas can help.
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May 10, 2023
Evertas offers several innovative crypto insurance products but not all of them are needed for every project. For example, a custodial exchange would need all of our crypto insurance policy types, …