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Microsegmentation. Poland’s cyberwar. AI-powered attackers. The blast radius that decides your cyber insurance premium. New podcast episode. Poland absorbed 270,000 cyberattacks in the past year. That’s 2.5 times more than the year before, according to Deputy Digital Affairs Minister Paweł Olszewski. Russia tripled its military intelligence resources aimed at Polish targets in 2025, per Digital … Read more
Both numbers sit inside IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report. The gap between them may be the most useful finding in the study. As follow-on research to the IBM data breach report, Ponemon Institute studied 602 breached organizations between March 2025 and February 2026. Nearly two-thirds said they planned to spend more on … Read more
Security leaders trust AI with almost nothing. Their carriers approved ransom payments in half the cases where money moved. A third party made the payment decision in half of the ransomware cases where a ransom got paid. Arctic Wolf names the cyber insurer as the example. The finding sits on page 13 of the company’s … Read more
Cowbell’s new framework scores how much autonomy customers hand their AI systems. OMNI’s own settings are undescribed. Cowbell’s underwriters accept their AI’s pricing nine times out of ten. The company launched that AI today. OMNI reads submissions, weighs risk signals, and returns priced non-admitted quotes in minutes. Cowbell reports 53% growth in new business since … Read more
Command Zero wants security investigations to stop dying young. The Austin-based company previewed Throughline this week, ahead of Black Hat USA 2026. The company calls it a “living investigation” capability. Related alerts merge into one evolving case. When new evidence arrives, closed cases reopen. The verdict gets re-examined with everything on the table. The pitch … Read more
BOXX Insurance says its small business cyber policy now covers AI and deepfake attacks in plain language. The Toronto-based insurtech, part of Zurich Insurance Group, announced affirmative coverage on July 22 for AI and deepfake events tied to social engineering and security failures. The endorsement sits within Cyberboxx® Business, the firm’s commercial offering. The move … Read more