The Proposal Form Only Knows What The Insured Declares

Cyber Insurance News story on silent AI exposure showing a scan beam revealing hidden AI nodes behind a blank website window

KYND has launched an AI detection capability aimed at silent AI exposure. It identifies AI technologies across an organization’s external footprint from a single domain, with no input from the business. A cyber proposal form can ask about AI. The answer depends on what the applicant knows and chooses to say. KYND says underwriters now … Read more

AI Governance Gap: Mid-Market Firms Buy Cover – AI Rules Lag.

Cyan-lit walkway extends beyond its glass guardrails, illustrating the AI governance gap, with Cyber Insurance News website branding.

Nearly three-quarters of mid-market business owners say they buy cyber insurance. Almost a quarter report having no AI policies, controls, or oversight. Nationwide’s latest survey puts two measures of preparedness side by side. Insurance ownership reaches 73% among mid-market respondents. The share reporting no AI governance measures reaches 24%, twice the small-business figure. Nationwide publishes … Read more

A Breach Convinced 64% To Spend More. An AI Announcement Convinced 85%.

Both numbers sit inside IBM’s 2026 Cost of a Data Breach Report. The gap between them may be the most useful finding in the study. As follow-on research to the IBM data breach report, Ponemon Institute studied 602 breached organizations between March 2025 and February 2026. Nearly two-thirds said they planned to spend more on … Read more

Shadow AI Executives: The Boss Is the Biggest Policy Breaker, TrustedTech Survey Finds

Ask a CISO what worries them most about shadow AI. The answer usually points to junior staff. New survey data points the finger up the org chart instead. TrustedTech, a Microsoft cloud solutions provider, commissioned Censuswide to survey 2,001 UK and US employees in March 2026. The report, “Shadow AI in the Workplace,” found that … Read more

Agentic AI: 98% Have Already Had An Incident. Few Can Prove What Happened

A new report opens with a number built to alarm. Almost every large organization running AI agents has already had one cause disruption. The figure is 98%. The research comes from Economist Enterprise, supported by Rubrik. It surveyed 804 senior technical executives across nine countries. Every respondent runs AI agents in live systems. The headline … Read more

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