The Source for Cyber Insurance News, Insights and Data
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
A single line of borrowed code can now sink dozens of firms at once. That is the danger behind fresh guidance from Britain’s national cyber authority. The National Cyber Security Centre has told software teams to audit their dependencies. The reason is blunt. Attackers have learned to poison the open source packages that modern software … Read more
CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD) has expanded Project QuiltWorks to include five major cyber insurance partners. Coalition, Liberty Mutual Insurance, Lockton, Resilience, and Marsh join the framework. The press release notes this expansion makes QuiltWorks the first coordinated model to span technical risk discovery, expert remediation, and financial protection against frontier AI risk. Boards and finance teams … Read more