Cybersecurity Workforce Crisis: ISACA 2025 Report Reveals Budget, Staffing, and Insurance Gaps

Overworked cybersecurity analyst in a dark office surrounded by glowing monitors showing cyber attack warnings and threat graphs, symbolizing staffing shortages, rising cyber threats, and the growing need for cyber insurance.

Factories once ground to a halt due to a lack of steel. Today, it’s cybersecurity talent. ISACA’s State of Cybersecurity 2025 reveals that enterprises are understaffed, underfunded, and unprepared for the challenges ahead. This lack of cybersecurity investment comes as cyber risks mount and reliance on cyber insurance grows. Attacks Rising, Confidence Fading The ISACA … Read more

AI Risk Insurance: Ransomware Redux or Industry Reinforcement Learning?

I Risk insurance illustration showing an umbrella labeled insurance protecting servers, laptops, and AI technology, symbolizing risk transfer and coverage clarity.

AI Risk Insurance: Can Cyber and Tech E&O Policies Keep Up with Autonomous Agents? If you were a Replit customer and its AI agents mistakenly wiped your entire production database containing 1K+ companies and execs data, would you expect your cyber policy to cover the resulting lost revenue (BI & CBI) and costs to restore … Read more

Another Large UK Company Caught with Inadequate Cyber Insurance? The Co-operative Group Appears Underinsured.

The Co-operative Group is a British operator of retail stores, funeral homes and other businesses. Like Marks and Spencer, another major UK retailer, the Co-op, which generates billion-of-dollars in yearly revenue, has been hit with a major cyber attack. But compared to Marks and Spencer, the Co-op appears to be grossly underinsured for cyber threats. … Read more

As Cyber Insurance Growth Stalls: Report Shows Europe Key to Rebooting Market

Cyber insurance growth has stalled after a decade of rapid expansion. So where does the market go from here? That’s the central question of Howden’s new report, Cyber Insurance: Rebooting Growth. The analysis warns that the once red-hot market now faces slowing momentum, even as cyber threats rise. Yet, it also points to new frontiers—especially … Read more

Cyber Risk Escalates as 48% of Breaches Go Unreported, New 2025 Report Warns

Three executives in a modern office sit at a conference table striking the ‘see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil’ poses while large digital screens behind them display urgent warnings of a cyberattack. The scene illustrates leadership denial during an AI-driven attack, data breach, or DDoS incident, symbolizing corporate inaction toward rising cyber risk.

Cyberattacks Hidden from Leadership – Cyber risk! What cyber risk? Almost half of cybersecurity leaders did not report material breaches to their boards in the past year. The 2025 Cyber Threat Landscape Report by VikingCloud shows that 48% of leaders kept incidents from executives. Alarmingly, 22% admitted to hiding five or more breaches. Leaders cite … Read more

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