Small Business Cyber Insurance Adoption Up 50%, Insureon Data Shows

Cyber insurance is no longer a fringe purchase for small businesses. New data from Insureon shows adoption grew 50% among its customers from 2023 to 2025. Completed policy purchases rose 59% over the same period. Insureon is part of HUB International, the fifth-largest global insurance broker. Its customer base skews small sole proprietors and firms … Read more

Pen Underwriting Doubles SME Cyber Cover Limit to £10M, Brings Claims In-House

Pen Underwriting has doubled its UK SME cyber cover limit to £10 million. The new ceiling applies to companies with revenues up to £600 million. It takes effect for risks incepting on or after 1 July 2026. The MGA also confirmed it will handle all UK cyber claims in-house. The London-based MGA cited rising broker … Read more

Does Cyber Insurance Cover Scams? It Depends

You lose money to a scam. You assume something will cover it. A bank. A card. A cyber policy. Often, the money is just gone. That gap is wide and expensive. Scams drained more than $450 billion from people worldwide last year, according to Bitdefender’s new Global Scam Intelligence Report 2026. Many of those losses … Read more

Post-Quantum Cryptography Exposes A Cyber Insurance Blind Spot

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 Tops 2026 Risk Rankings as Coverage Gap Persists: RiskScan 2026

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

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