UK Cyber Insurance

Insurers Ranked The Controls That Work. Staff Training Came First.

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Cyber insurance controls headline card over the City of London skyline and Tower Bridge, reading eleven controls, six beyond Cyber Essentials, in new ABI guidance.

The Association of British Insurers has published what its members’ claims data says actually reduces cyber losses. Several of the controls sit outside Cyber Essentials entirely, including backups. The Association of British Insurers has published good practice guidance on cyber resilience, setting out the cyber insurance controls its members regard as most effective. The document … Read more

Insurers Rule Out A Cyber Insurance Backstop As Capacity Hits Record Highs

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The Association of British Insurers and PwC UK set out where the market has grown, where cover stops, and how much of the small business sector still buys nothing. The Association of British Insurers has published its UK Cyber Insurance Market Assessment, produced with PwC UK, and it carries a direct statement of position. Structural … Read more

Crime Is Crime. The Invoice Is Not. New UK Research Puts Cyber Incidents At 28% Of Businesses

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UK business crime and cyber insurance graphic showing a British high street shopfront split between a broken shop window with police tape and a ransomware lock screen, illustrating that only one in ten UK businesses hold a specific cyber insurance policy.

A burglar takes your stock. A hacker takes your Tuesday, your payroll run and your customer list. Both are crime. Both cost money. Only one of them gets insured properly. New research from business lender Capital on Tap surveyed 500 United Kingdom business owners in June 2026. More than one in four, 28%, reported a … Read more

UK Cloud Outage Risk: Three Data Regions Carry 40% Of The Economy’s Revenue Exposure

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The UK economy has a concentration problem, and it hums away in server halls in Dublin, Amsterdam, and Northern Virginia. New analysis from the Cyber Monitoring Centre and Parametrix maps where UK cloud dependency actually pools. Three aggregation points support 40% of the UK’s revenue exposure while serving just 3.5% of its companies. The headline … Read more

Ministers Wrote to the Entire FTSE 350 About the Cyber Pledge. They Got Left “Unread”

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The UK government launched its Cyber Resilience Pledge at 10 Downing Street on Tuesday. Seventy businesses signed as founding members, including M&S, Aviva, the London Stock Exchange Group, Nationwide, ITV, and Microsoft UK. Here is the number that matters. Last October, government ministers, the NCSC chief, and the NCA head wrote to the chief executive … Read more

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