A Breach Convinced 64% To Spend More. An AI Announcement Convinced 85%.

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

Cowbell Launches OMNI With 53% Growth. Loss Ratio Is Too Early To Judge.

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

Manufacturing Cybersecurity: 60% Breached Despite Training, And An MSP Question Underwriters Should Not Skip

A new survey from Integris, a managed service provider, finds that 84% of U.S. manufacturers run cybersecurity awareness training, yet 60% reported a significant email-based breach in the past year. Another 49% reported a mobile device breach. The gap shines a light on manufacturing cybersecurity. The 2026 Integris manufacturing technology and cybersecurity report surveyed 411 … Read more

Mobile AI Is Everywhere. Cyber Underwriters Should Stop Trusting Self-Assessments

NowSecure found that 95% of large organizations deploy AI inside mobile applications, while 37% lack behavioral monitoring, and apps built predominantly from third-party code report more than twice the security-incident rate. Mobile AI cyber insurance underwriting is becoming more difficult as AI and third-party code spread through enterprise applications faster than security programs can assess … Read more

Shadow AI Executives: The Boss Is the Biggest Policy Breaker, TrustedTech Survey Finds

Ask a CISO what worries them most about shadow AI. The answer usually points to junior staff. New survey data points the finger up the org chart instead. TrustedTech, a Microsoft cloud solutions provider, commissioned Censuswide to survey 2,001 UK and US employees in March 2026. The report, “Shadow AI in the Workplace,” found that … Read more

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