A Carrier Built The Thing Vendors Have Been Selling

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Since March, this publication has covered at least six proposals to wire continuous monitoring into cyber underwriting. Sophos and Spektrum Labs. Jessica Newman on the podcast. Marsh and Resilience. CyberCube. Silent Push. Black Kite. All vendors pitching to carriers. Mosaic Insurance launched HALO on 17 September. It is a carrier that built the thing itself, … Read more

RAND Read The Filings. Most Carriers Are Silent On AI Losses, And That Is The Problem.

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Mind the AI insurance coverage gaps. A vendor report says carriers are confused about AI. A RAND Corporation report says carriers are diverging, and names the consequences of each path. Sasha Romanosky and Celine Robinson spent the better part of 2026 reading actual SERFF filings, AI incident databases, federal lawsuit records, and enacted state laws. … Read more

AI Security Spending Takes Priority. Most Budgets Stay Flat Or Shrink.

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AI security spending has moved to the front of the queue. Most security leaders still face flat or shrinking budgets. IANS and Artico Search found that 69% of surveyed CISOs selected AI among their priorities for additional security funding. Respondents could choose several priorities. AI attracted the most selections. The organizations released their 2026 Security … Read more

Recovery Took Twice As Long As Planned. Nobody Priced For That.

Three-quarters of organizations that suffered a material cyberattack and business interruption in the past year blew through their recovery time objective. On average, recovery took nearly twice as long as the objective they had set. That figure does not appear in Cohesity’s press release. It sits on page six of the full report, and it … Read more

Silent Push Says Impersonation Monitoring Belongs In Underwriting. The Loss Data Does Not Exist Yet.

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The Domain That Waited A carrier writes three mid-market manufacturers in the same quarter. Different brokers, different states, no shared vendors. Eleven months later, all three report wire fraud losses inside six weeks of each other. The domains used against them were registered on the same afternoon, at the same registrar, on the same hosting. … Read more

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