Cowbell Rx is the first marketplace provided by a cyber insurer. Cowbell Rx adds partner solutions to the risk resources already made available to policyholders by Cowbell: risk ratings (Cowbell Factors), risk insights and remediation (Cowbell Insights), advanced insights through Cowbell connectors to Microsoft, AWS, and other infrastructure, and cybersecurity awareness training.
Cowbell Rx is a key component of Cowbell’s closed-loop risk management approach whose goal is to help policyholders continuously improve their risk profile. Together with our partners, Cowbell is bringing streamlined access to top cybersecurity solutions to keep current and future policyholders secure.
At Cowbell Rx, policyholders can directly connect with trusted partners to improve their organization's cyber risk profile. Partners on Cowbell Rx have been carefully selected for the additional value they bring to secure businesses against cyber threats. Cowbell Rx partners provide exclusive discounts to Cowbell policyholders, as well as those seeking to obtain cyber Insurance from Cowbell for the first time.
Cowbell Rx provides referral access to vendors that can help businesses with a variety of needs related to IT or security. Here are the various categories:
Backup/Restore/DR and Data Security
Data backup is a process of duplicating data to allow retrieval of the duplicate set after a data loss event. There are many kinds of data backup services that help businesses, and organizations ensure that data is secure and that critical information is not lost in a natural disaster, theft situation, or other kinds of emergencies. Cowbell Rx partners include:
Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, including computing power, data storage, and software. Top providers include Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud. Most common collaboration tools are now delivered as cloud applications and part of an organization’s cloud footprint. Examples: Microsoft 365 (formerly known as Office 365), Google Workspace (formerly known as Google Suite), Salesforce.com, Slack, and other cloud applications. Cowbell Rx partners include:
Cloud Security
Cloud security is the practice of protecting cloud-based data, applications, and infrastructure from cyberattacks and cyber threats. Most major Cloud Infrastructure providers offer standard cybersecurity tools with monitoring and alerting functions as part of their service offerings, but some organizations may find these tools do not provide enough security coverage for their needs and therefore engage third-party Cloud Security providers. Cowbell Rx partners include:
Compliance
There are many privacy and security regulations that organizations must comply to in order to conduct business. Compliance vendors help meet these standards, as well as record and audit the compliance information for reporting purposes. Cowbell Rx partners include:
Cyber Risk Management
Cyber Risk Management vendors help organizations identify and minimize their cyber risk while preparing them to mitigate the impact of a cyber incident. Cowbell Rx partners include:
Cyber Security Professional Services
These vendors include consultants that work with organizations to increase their cybersecurity posture and decrease their cyber risk. They are often platform and software agnostic, focusing on implementation and operational best practices. Cowbell Rx partners include:
Cyber Security Operations
Third party organizations that assume the management of an organization’s cyber security. In some cases, the entire organization’s IT environment is moved to the provider’s network operations center (NOC) or security operations center (SOC). Cowbell Rx partners include:
EDR/MDR/NDR/XDR
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), Managed Detection and Response (MDR), Network Detection and Response (NDR), and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) are all technologies that seek to identify malicious software and cyber attacks in real-time. The goal is to contain the attack and remove the threat from the customer’s IT environment as fast as possible. Cowbell Rx partners include:
Incident Response
Incident response vendors help organizations handle a data breach or cyberattack, including the way the organization attempts to manage the consequences of the attack or breach. Ultimately, the goal is to effectively manage the incident so that the damage is limited and that recovery time, costs, and collateral damage are kept at a minimum. Cowbell Rx partners include:
M(S)SP
Managed Service Providers (MSP) and Managed Security Service Providers (MSSP) are vendors that provide outsourced monitoring and management of devices and systems. For MSPs, this may be email, e-commerce platforms, calendar platforms, etc. MSSPs are focused on security systems, and their services may include managed firewalls, intrusion detection, virtual private network, vulnerability scanning, and antiviral services. Cowbell Rx partners include:
Threat Intelligence
Threat intelligence is data that is collected, processed, and analyzed to understand a threat actor’s motives, targets, and attack behaviors. Threat intelligence enables organizations to make faster, more informed security decisions. Cowbell Rx partners include:
Training
Vendors that provide cybersecurity awareness training or application specific training in order to increase an organization's cybersecurity posture. Cowbell Rx partners include:
User Authentication
User Authentication, also known as identity and access management (IAM), is a framework of policies and technologies to ensure that the right users have the appropriate access to technology resources. User Authentication vendors often manage the enforcement of access privileges and provide identity authentication technologies, such as password management, biometrics, etc. Cowbell Rx partners include: