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A breach can shut a business down for months. Marsh wants insurers paying for that downtime in days, not after the recovery is over. Ransomware does not just lock files. It stops the business. AXA XL’s own claims data found 92% of ransomware incidents caused a business interruption, and the average company needed about two … Read more
Workplace AI adoption is moving faster than any technology before it. By early 2026, 43% of U.S. workers were using AI on the job. Most cyber programs were not built for that speed. The internal cybersecurity exposure this creates is called shadow AI. It is now the headline risk in Travelers’ Q1 2026 Cyber Threat … Read more
Financial institutions now face danger from two directions at once. Attackers are striking them directly again. Their vendors are springing new leaks at the same time. Black Kite calls it a two-front crisis. Direct ransomware attacks jumped 76% in the first quarter of 2026, year over year. Half of the sector’s vendors now carry critical … Read more
Asia is the next big opportunity in cyber insurance. That is the central finding of new joint research from United Insurance Brokers (UIB) and CyberCube, published this week. The report, “Unlocking Asia’s Cyber Insurance Opportunity: The Broker’s Role in Growth,” identifies the region as one of the most compelling growth frontiers in the global market. … Read more
Verizon’s 2026 DBIR Covers 22,000 Confirmed Breaches Across 145 Countries For years, the answer to “how did they get in?” was the same: a stolen password. That answer changed in 2025. Verizon’s 2026 Data Breach Investigations Report, the 19th annual edition and the largest dataset the report has ever produced, finds vulnerability exploitation has overtaken … Read more