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Agentic AI is reshaping how underwriters and claims teams think about cyber risk. The disruption arrives at machine speed. AI keeps inventing and changing at a pace the market rarely sees. Insurance touches every industry. Every industry is now embracing AI. That pushes risk and liability to the forefront. The latest Cyber Insurance News podcast … Read more
AI risk is giving old cyber threats a dangerous new advantage: speed. BakerHostetler, a U.S. law firm with a large cybersecurity, privacy, and incident response practice, puts AI risk at the center of its 2026 Data Security Incident Response Report. The report, based on over 1,250 incidents handled by the firm’s Digital Assets and Data … Read more
We’ve seen this before: a new technology emerges, companies rush to get ahead, and governance tries to keep up. According to Delinea’s latest research, AI risk has reached this point. About 90% of organizations are pushing cybersecurity teams to relax identity controls so AI projects can progress. This tradeoff increases the risk of unauthorized access, … Read more
The CISO’s role is expanding at many companies, but at other firms, they still lack access to top decision-makers. A new report looking at this layer of corporate leadership finds just 25% of CISOs say board briefings on cyber risk last longer than 30 minutes. The 2026 Benchmark Report: How Boards Are Partnering With CISOs was created … Read more
A researcher typed a simple request into a chat window. The agent answered like a diligent assistant. Then it did something else. It complied with a stranger’s framing. It returned private emails. In one scenario, it refused to reveal a Social Security number. Then it “forwarded the full email,” exposing the same data anyway. The … Read more