Most CISOs Are Fighting The Last War. AI-Powered Cyber Attacks Just Changed The Rules – PODCAST

Most corporate security leaders are doing compliance, not security. That is the blunt assessment of Mitchell Amador, CEO of Immunefi, the leading crowdsourced cybersecurity platform for blockchain, with over $25 billion in hack-related damage averted and more than 90,000 registered white-hat researchers. And he argues that the arrival of AI-powered cyber attacks has made that … Read more

Small Business Cyber Insurance Adoption Up 50%, Insureon Data Shows

Cyber insurance is no longer a fringe purchase for small businesses. New data from Insureon shows adoption grew 50% among its customers from 2023 to 2025. Completed policy purchases rose 59% over the same period. Insureon is part of HUB International, the fifth-largest global insurance broker. Its customer base skews small sole proprietors and firms … Read more

Pen Underwriting Doubles SME Cyber Cover Limit to £10M, Brings Claims In-House

Pen Underwriting has doubled its UK SME cyber cover limit to £10 million. The new ceiling applies to companies with revenues up to £600 million. It takes effect for risks incepting on or after 1 July 2026. The MGA also confirmed it will handle all UK cyber claims in-house. The London-based MGA cited rising broker … Read more

Does Cyber Insurance Cover Scams? It Depends

You lose money to a scam. You assume something will cover it. A bank. A card. A cyber policy. Often, the money is just gone. That gap is wide and expensive. Scams drained more than $450 billion from people worldwide last year, according to Bitdefender’s new Global Scam Intelligence Report 2026. Many of those losses … Read more

Post-Quantum Cryptography Exposes A Cyber Insurance Blind Spot

Insurers price the risks they can see. Cryptography is the risk they cannot. Post-quantum cryptography is about to make that blind spot expensive. Most cyber policies rest on a quiet assumption. They assume the encryption protecting a client’s data will hold. That assumption is weakening. Quantum computing threatens the math behind today’s encryption. The threat … Read more