At Cowbell, our company culture matters. We know that we are only as good as our people, and keeping employees engaged has been part of our secret to success. Our recent Best Workplace award from Inc. Magazine only confirms this. We have many initiatives that set us apart when it comes to company culture, but one particular highlight is our annual Longhorn event. Every year, all Cowbellers spend a week together at Longhorn to celebrate our wins, network, and spend time together outside of virtual meetings. This year, our motto was to “Live deliberately”, urging us to act consciously and purpos ..read more

Opening a Technology Centre in Pune, India, has been an exciting next step in Cowbell’s journey. It enables us to double down on our innovation and drive more products and features in the future. Since the opening, we have already started welcoming talented Engineers to the India Cowbell team.  While we have more than a dozen offices across the US, Canada, India, and the UK, we are especially proud of our India Technology Centre. It is our biggest office yet, with a modern and elevated design that encourages collaboration across our Cowbellers. Wall art reflects our TRUE values – Transpar ..read more

Last month, the Biden–Harris Administration released a new National Cybersecurity Strategy designed to shore up the defenses and improve the resilience of our digital ecosystem. The Strategy touches on a wide range of important topics, but below, we underscore the top five takeaways for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), specifically. 1. Strategic Objective 1.1: Establish Cybersecurity Requirements to Support National Security and Public Safety From the same section, there is commentary on “regulatory harmonization.” Stated simply, this is related to reducing the burden – in terms of ..read more

I am excited about the two new Cowbell Leadership Team (CLT) additions. First, in Rahul Hatkar, as our first VP and GM for India Technology Center, we found not just a competent leader to run our engineering operations in Pune but a cultural ambassador for what our culture is known for – Transparency, Resiliency, Urgency, and Empowerment (aka T.R.U.E. cultural framework). Second, with Simon Hughes, as our first VP and GM of the UK Operations, our leadership team is now augmented with exceptional leadership outside of the US in go-to-market, underwriting, and distribution. The great Muhammad Al ..read more

For a more general overview of cloud computing, please see our first blog post: Cloud Computing 101. What are some benefits of cloud computing for SMEs? Security and safer storage: One of the major benefits of using the cloud is better security. The most well-known cloud providers, such as Google, Microsoft, and Amazon Web Services, invest considerable resources to ensure that stored data is secured and available. They also constantly look for ways to improve these services. This yields a stronger base of security than most SMEs can’t achieve on their own. An example is cloud-hosted email, wh ..read more

The workplace dynamic has changed drastically with many employees not going to the office every day. In many jobs (not all), employees have the ability to work from almost anywhere (at home, in a different country) and on any device (mobile device, personal computer). Remote work makes it more important than ever to have an Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) in place to protect not only your organization but also your employees.  Given the importance of an AUP, Cowbell has created a template that you can utilize to help jump-start the process. Keep in mind that the template has most aspects of i ..read more

Cloud computing is the delivery of different computing services through the Internet. These resources include applications and tools like data storage, servers, databases, networking, software, analytics, and intelligence over the cloud (the Internet) to offer faster innovation, flexible resources, and economies of scale. Cloud computing is commonly used in the context of cloud-based storage. Rather than keeping files on a proprietary hard drive or local storage device, cloud-based storage makes it possible to save them to a remote database. As long as an electronic device can access the web ..read more

Cowbell is proud to have a workforce that is over 40% female, compared to 24% of women in the cybersecurity industry. We appreciate every woman who decides to work at Cowbell and contribute with their expertise and talent in their respective fields.  Since the wrap of Season 6 of The Cowbell Factors podcast fell into March, Women’s History Month, we invited intelligent and inspiring women to our podcast every week of the month. Here is what we learned: Tia Hopkins, Chief Cyber Resilience Officer, eSentireKey takeaways from Tia’s episode include: Managed detection and response (MDR) is th ..read more

“In contrast to reports out today, we are providing clarification that Cowbell Specialty Insurance Company (“CSIC”) policyholder funds were never at risk. The vast majority of CSIC’s assets are invested in money market funds and short-term U.S. bonds which are not held at SVB and weren’t prior to the events of last week. While Cowbell Cyber has used SVB as its operating bank partner since inception, our contractual exposure to deposits at SVB was limited at the time of FDIC’s intervention, and we had access to alternative sources of liquidity. Cowbell has alternative banking relationships and ..read more

In the next episode of Season 6 of The Cowbell Factors podcast, Binil Pillai, Global SMB Security Leader at Microsoft, shared insights on how Microsoft helps customers strengthen their resilience against cyber threats. Here are the key takeaways: Microsoft provides complete visibility over the integrity of infrastructure applications and devices, allowing customers to identify, respond, and generate insights around cybersecurity incidents effectively and efficiently. Microsoft offers SME-specific security products designed for the unique needs and price points of SMEs, such as Microsoft 365 B ..read more