The Source for Cyber Insurance News, Insights and Data
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are under cyberattack. According to another report, one in three SMBs globally faced downtime exceeding 24 hours after a cyberattack. At the same time, over half lacked dedicated IT security staff. The cumulative effect of these risks has made cyber resilience an urgent priority for smaller organizations. A QBE Hong … 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
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
A New Era of Cyber Threats An increasingly evident arms race is unfolding in cyberspace. Algorithms duel, AI fights AI, and every click could spark a crisis. Microsoft’s new Digital Defense Report 2025 warns that the digital battlefield has gone fully commercial — and cash, not chaos, is the new currency of attack. In 2025, … Read more
AI Is Reshaping the Cyber Risk Landscape for SMBs A new report from Cork Protection warns that small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) face an unprecedented wave of AI-driven cyber threats. The report, SMB Cyber Defense 2026, describes a digital landscape where artificial intelligence is being weaponized to automate cyberattacks at machine speed. Once considered secondary … Read more