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Financial institutions now face danger from two directions at once. Attackers are striking them directly again. Their vendors are springing new leaks at the same time. Black Kite calls it a two-front crisis. Direct ransomware attacks jumped 76% in the first quarter of 2026, year over year. Half of the sector’s vendors now carry critical … Read more
Private equity runs on risk. Firms buy, fix, and sell companies at speed. Every edge matters in that race. Cyber exposure now threatens those returns. Controlling it hands a firm a real advantage. Resilience built a new program around that logic. It launched a cyber risk program for private equity firms. The offering manages cyber … Read more
Agentic AI is reshaping how underwriters and claims teams think about cyber risk. The disruption arrives at machine speed. AI keeps inventing and changing at a pace the market rarely sees. Insurance touches every industry. Every industry is now embracing AI. That pushes risk and liability to the forefront. The latest Cyber Insurance News podcast … Read more
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has expanded Project QuiltWorks to include five major cyber insurance partners. Coalition, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Lockton, Resilience, and Marsh join the framework. The press release notes this expansion makes QuiltWorks the first coordinated model to span technical risk discovery, expert remediation, and financial protection against frontier AI risk. Boards and finance teams … Read more
Willis, a WTW business (NASDAQ: WTW), has named three senior leaders to its FINEX North America cyber practice. The new Willis FINEX North America cyber leadership team was appointed to further strengthen cybersecurity efforts for clients. The announcements took effect on May 27. Together, they signal a deliberate push to sharpen the broker’s cyber strategy … Read more