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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
Financial institutions now face danger from two directions at once. Attackers are striking them directly again. Their vendors are springing new leaks at the same time. Black Kite calls it a two-front crisis. Direct ransomware attacks jumped 76% in the first quarter of 2026, year over year. Half of the sector’s vendors now carry critical … Read more
Private equity runs on risk. Firms buy, fix, and sell companies at speed. Every edge matters in that race. Cyber exposure now threatens those returns. Controlling it hands a firm a real advantage. Resilience built a new program around that logic. It launched a cyber risk program for private equity firms. The offering manages cyber … Read more