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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
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
Cyber risk now leads the worry list across the insurance market. The cyber insurance gap still holds. Munich Re and the Insurance Information Institute confirmed both points today. They released RiskScan 2026, a cross-market study of US and UK risk views. The study polled more than 1,700 people. It spanned consumers, business owners, brokers, and … Read more
Cyber risk once lived in a traffic-light chart. Red, amber, and green told the board very little. That era is closing. A new FAIR Institute report shows companies now putting hard numbers on cyber risk. Many express it in dollars and euros. For underwriters and brokers, cyber risk quantification (CRQ) is becoming the shared language … Read more