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We attended Zywave’s 14th annual Cyber Risk Insights Conference in New York. We did not catch every minute. But a brisk summary may still help busy readers. The day tracked market sentiment, debated policy design, and drilled into privacy litigation and growth hurdles. Below are the highlights, organized by session. Keynote: Cyber Insurance as the … Read more
VPNs from Cisco and Citrix pose the highest ransomware risk, while email-related cyber incidents jumped 30% last year, according to At-Bay’s 2025 InsurSec Rankings Report. The annual study, based on more than 100,000 policy years of claims data, shows that email and remote access together accounted for 90% of cyber insurance claims in 2024. The … Read more
Nation Faces Ongoing Cyber Warfare Threats “Most people do not realize that our nation is under attack – indeed ongoing cyber warfare – by hostile nation state actors,” said Geoff Halstead of Faction Networks. The comment highlighted the urgency of a new cybersecurity and cyber liability insurance partnership between Faction Networks and SUNY Albany’s College … Read more
We routinely report on cyber insurance market size estimates and related industry studies from various insurance and research companies; see a summary table at the bottom of this post. But two new studies released on the same day (10/23/25) demonstrate the challenges of evaluating this market. One study, Marsh’s Global Insurance Market Index, reports global … Read more
The Biggest Threat: Concentrated Vendor Risk Peter Foster does not hesitate. “The third-party risk is the systemic risk that most underwriters worry about,” he says. “If you compromise 100 to 1,000 companies at a single point of failure, that’s the future risk that’s also here and now.” Foster, Chairman of Willis’ Global FINEX Cyber Solutions, … Read more