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The Breach Nobody Saw Coming Imagine it’s Tuesday morning. The CFO gets a call: systems are locked, and a ransom note appears on the screen. The attacker didn’t break in physically; they used a stolen password. This happened to seven out of ten organizations Sophos surveyed last year. The State of Identity Security 2026 report, … 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
Cyber insurance underwriting is changing. The old way, where applicants just checked boxes and signed forms, is being replaced by a need for real proof. This change was the main topic in a recent Cyber Insurance News and Information Podcast with Jessica Newman, Global GM of Cyber Insurance at Sophos. Newman explained that the market … Read more
I attended the 2026 PLUS Cyber Symposium in New York City, where the agenda, as you might already have guessed, focused on cyber liability insurance. The sessions provided useful insights for brokers, carriers, claims teams, and security leaders working in a rapidly changing threat environment. The following summaries cover the main themes from each panel. … Read more
Security Data Now Drives Cyber Insurance Policy Approval Sophos and Spektrum Labs have launched a joint program linking managed detection and response security data to cyber insurance policy underwriting, aimed at simplifying qualification and improving underwriting visibility. The companies introduced the Insurability FastTrack program, directly integrating Sophos MDR with Spektrum Labs’ cyber resilience validation platform. … Read more