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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
Lee Nolan, General Manager UK and Ireland for Hitachi Vantara, explains why recovery speed, not breach prevention, defines a company’s true cyber risk. Most business leaders accept that a breach will happen at some point. Well, they should. The real issue is whether their company can survive it. Lee Nolan has over 20 years of … 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
Only one in nine ransomware attacks becomes publicly disclosed. The rest happen in silence. That gap between what is reported and what is real has direct consequences for every organization that buys, sells, or underwrites cyber insurance. This ransomware trend is just part of the BlackFog Q1 2026 State of Ransomware report, released on May … Read more
Most companies think they understand their cyber risk. They filled out the questionnaire. They renewed the policy. The boxes were checked. According to Ralph Pasquariello and Craig Sekowski of CYBERRISKIQ, that confidence is one of the most dangerous blind spots in corporate America today. In the latest episode of the Cyber Insurance News and Information … Read more