Swiss Re: Extreme Cyber Accumulation Is Too Big For Private Capital

Cyber Insurance News story on cyber accumulation risk showing a glowing network with one red node spreading through its links

Swiss Re Institute read the risk disclosures of 91 Fortune-100 companies. Ninety-eight percent of them name cyber attacks as a risk to their business. No risk in the study appeared more often. With the London School of Economics, it compared filings from 2019 and 2026. Cyber attacks topped the list in 2026, up from 91% … Read more

Eighty-Eight Percent Have A Plan. Twenty-One Percent Have An Inventory.

Cyber Insurance News story on OT cybersecurity showing an industrial plant at night with one tower unlit and invisible illustrative of industrial cyber risk.

Eighty-eight percent of industrial security leaders describe their OT security program as planned or design-led. Twenty-one percent report a complete asset inventory. A program cannot protect equipment nobody has counted. Honeywell Technologies has now put a number on what that gap costs in hours. Its inaugural OT Cybersecurity Benchmark Report surveyed 603 respondents across critical … Read more

Hackers Silenced The Water Alarms. Insurers Are Being Asked To Fix It.

Attackers did not just lock operators out. Federal guidance says they learned to disable the alarms that warn something is wrong. A proposal wants underwriters to enforce a standard of care that courts already struck down once. Attackers spent late July inside the control systems of American water utilities. They changed IP addresses. They set … Read more

A Breach Convinced 64% To Spend More. An AI Announcement Convinced 85%.

Both numbers sit inside IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report. The gap between them may be the most useful finding in the study. As follow-on research to the IBM data breach report, Ponemon Institute studied 602 breached organizations between March 2025 and February 2026. Nearly two-thirds said they planned to spend more on … Read more

What’s Your Blast Radius Worth? – Podcast

Microsegmentation. Poland’s cyberwar. AI-powered attackers. The blast radius that decides your cyber insurance premium. New podcast episode. Poland absorbed 270,000 cyberattacks in the past year. That’s 2.5 times more than the year before, according to Deputy Digital Affairs Minister Paweł Olszewski. Russia tripled its military intelligence resources aimed at Polish targets in 2025, per Digital … Read more

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