Crime Is Crime. The Invoice Is Not. New UK Research Puts Cyber Incidents At 28% Of Businesses

UK business crime and cyber insurance graphic showing a British high street shopfront split between a broken shop window with police tape and a ransomware lock screen, illustrating that only one in ten UK businesses hold a specific cyber insurance policy.

A burglar takes your stock. A hacker takes your Tuesday, your payroll run and your customer list. Both are crime. Both cost money. Only one of them gets insured properly. New research from business lender Capital on Tap surveyed 500 United Kingdom business owners in June 2026. More than one in four, 28%, reported a … Read more

The Video Wasn’t Fake. Nobody Could Prove What Happened to It. That’s a Cyber Insurance Problem.

A courtroom confrontation in Utah, a new EU deadline, and three overlooked rulings point to where the debate over digital evidence is really heading. Altered images cause harm long before anyone determines who must bear the costs. Digital evidence is now causing problems in connection with cyber insurance claims, and the courts are already dealing … Read more

Allianz Renames Cyber360 Protect to Scam Protect, Still Calls It Personal Cyber Insurance

Mark Twain once wrote that the difference between the almost-right word and the right word is “really a large matter—it’s the difference between the lightning-bug and the lightning.” Allianz just picked a side. Allianz Insurance Singapore renamed its personal cyber insurance product Aug. 12, according to a press release. Allianz Cyber360 Protect is now Allianz … Read more

UK Cloud Outage Risk: Three Data Regions Carry 40% Of The Economy’s Revenue Exposure

The UK economy has a concentration problem, and it hums away in server halls in Dublin, Amsterdam, and Northern Virginia. New analysis from the Cyber Monitoring Centre and Parametrix maps where UK cloud dependency actually pools. Three aggregation points support 40% of the UK’s revenue exposure while serving just 3.5% of its companies. The headline … Read more

Human Cyber Risk: 77% Of European CISOs Say The C-Suite Doesn’t Get It

The CISO sees the threat. The boardroom sees a line item. New MetaCompliance research puts numbers on that old story at an awkward moment. AI is making attacks on human judgment cheaper, faster, and far more convincing. The survey covered 200 CISOs across the UK, France, Germany, and Sweden. Censuswide conducted it in February 2026 … Read more

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