Cyber Insurance Policy Insights: Measuring Breach Risk with The SecurityScorecard BSI

Cyber Insurance Policy Meets Predictive Analytics Cyber insurers face surging claims and evolving attack patterns. SecurityScorecard’s Breach Susceptibility Indicator (BSI) offers a precise way to measure cyber risk for every cyber insurance policy. The BSI quantifies breach likelihood using verified historical data, enabling insurers to forecast losses more effectively. A Data-Driven Metric for Risk Evaluation … Read more

At-Bay 2025 InsurSec Rankings Reveal Email Security Weaknesses Amid Rising Cyber Insurance Claims

VPNs from Cisco and Citrix pose the highest ransomware risk, while email-related cyber incidents jumped 30% last year, according to At-Bay’s 2025 InsurSec Rankings Report. The annual study, based on more than 100,000 policy years of claims data, shows that email and remote access together accounted for 90% of cyber insurance claims in 2024. The … Read more

Faction Networks and SUNY Albany Unite to Strengthen Cyber Liability Insurance Research and Cybersecurity Workforce

Nation Faces Ongoing Cyber Warfare Threats “Most people do not realize that our nation is under attack – indeed ongoing cyber warfare – by hostile nation state actors,” said Geoff Halstead of Faction Networks. The comment highlighted the urgency of a new cybersecurity and cyber liability insurance partnership between Faction Networks and SUNY Albany’s College … Read more

Cyber Insurance Companies Face Loss Ratio Impact from Amazon Outage

CyberCube dubbed the recent Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage “Amazonk.” The outage disrupted major platforms, including Snapchat, Fortnite, Roblox, Coinbase, and Venmo. Cyber insurance companies are now assessing the financial fallout, with CyberCube estimating potential losses between $38 million and $581 million. CyberCube’s Analysis Highlights Moderate Loss Ratios CyberCube’s report notes that the outage “is … Read more

Cyber Insurance Market Size is Growing Fast But Cyber Insurance Rates Are Shrinking?

We routinely report on cyber insurance market size estimates and related industry studies from various insurance and research companies; see a summary table at the bottom of this post. But two new studies released on the same day (10/23/25) demonstrate the challenges of evaluating this market. One study, Marsh’s Global Insurance Market Index, reports global … Read more

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