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Cyber insurers have started asking about offboarding on their applications, says Sagiss president Travis Springer. His company’s survey suggests why. Of 1,000 US adults who left a job, 79% said a work account kept working after their last day. “When we see new questions added to insurance applications, it is in response to an increase … Read more
Comcast Business counted 79.3 billion cybersecurity events in its 2026 threat report. The more telling findings sit deeper in its research, in hijacked home devices and stolen logins. Seventy-nine billion is a number built for a headline. Comcast Business counted 79.3 billion cybersecurity events across its security customers between March 2025 and February 2026. That … Read more
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
Cyber insurance requirements are evolving quickly. According to a new report from CyberCube, AI is speeding up attacks in ways that current underwriting models cannot manage. The H1 2026 Global Threat Briefing highlights the size of the challenge for underwriters, brokers, and senior risk managers. The main takeaway is clear: recovery capability is now more … 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