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Buying a cyber insurance policy still begins with a questionnaire. That process is no longer enough. In a recent Cyber Insurance News podcast, I spoke with Tristan Morris, co-founder and CEO of SplitSecure, and Dylan Hamilton, business development lead at SplitSecure. SplitSecure builds credential and privileged access management tools to provide insurers with verifiable proof … Read more
Business email compromise now costs organizations more than $6 billion a year. That figure, cited by Gartner, marks a threshold that the cyber insurance market cannot ignore. Bitdefender launched GravityZone Extended Email Security on April 15 to address the detection gap that makes BEC so costly. The platform combines gateway filtering with post-delivery monitoring in … Read more
The U.S. cyber insurance market faces a stark new reality. Premiums fell for the first time to $9.14 billion, according to AM Best, just as cyber insurance claims jumped 40%. Cowbell’s 2026 Claims Report, built on 18 months of incident data, maps the forces driving this divergence. This market shift is critical for every CFO … Read more
A critical flaw in Adobe Reader was actively exploited for at least five months before Adobe issued a fix. Attackers stole files from victims’ computers during that entire period. The trigger required was simple: opening a PDF. This episode exposes a structural problem in how patch management works and directly challenges one of the most … Read more
Cyber insurance requirements are evolving quickly. According to a new report from CyberCube, AI is speeding up attacks in ways that current underwriting models cannot manage. The H1 2026 Global Threat Briefing highlights the size of the challenge for underwriters, brokers, and senior risk managers. The main takeaway is clear: recovery capability is now more … Read more