If Attackers Test You Every Day, Why Does Your Insurer Test You Once A Year?

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Opinion | Guest contributor – Mitchell Spicer, co-founder and COO of Revelion ASOS has now disclosed two cyber incidents in about ten weeks. The first, detected in late July, saw attackers get into customer accounts using passwords stolen from somewhere else and reused. The second, on 6 October, saw thousands of customers receive a threatening … Read more

The Proposal Form Only Knows What The Insured Declares

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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

No Insurer Has Asked Which SaaS Apps You Use

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Nudge Security CEO Russell Spitler says cyber insurance applications miss the question that decides SaaS supply chain risk. He has yet to see an insurer ask for a company’s list of applications. In August 2025, attackers stole OAuth tokens from Salesloft’s Drift integration. They used them to pull data out of Salesforce instances across many … Read more

Compliant In May. Seventeen Thousand Open Ports In June.

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A defense supplier held every certificate on the list. Then it moved its servers. And issues arrived. On this episode of the Cyber Insurance News Podcast, Cyber Tzar CEO Andrew Horkan on why compliance is paperwork, what an outside-in scan sees, and why brokers are starting to use a cyber score before they bind. Oh, … Read more

Insurers Filed Deepfakes Under Cybersecurity. The Risk Walked Into The Claims File.

It is a Tuesday morning in early 2027. At 9:04, a policyholder’s AI agent files a first notice of loss with your carrier. Forty seconds later, your own AI agent has triaged the claim, requested supporting evidence, summarised the file, and drafted a settlement recommendation. Fast. Frictionless. Fully auditable. And nobody has asked the question … Read more

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