Cyber Insurance News

More AI doesn't just mean more breaches. Jeremy Epstein of Mayflower Specialty on the new exposure inside agentic AI: performance drift, errors and omissions, and non-deterministic output. From our Authorization Gap panel at Scout InsurTech. YouTube - youtu.be/dGf-6JymAZg?... #AgenticAI

New episode of the Cyber Insurance News podcast recorded live at the Scout InsurTech conference in Columbus, Ohio: Agentic AI can act on its own. It can call APIs, run code, and take action with no human in the loop. Here's a clip - Links to the whole show below.

The AI revolution is here. But most organizations don't yet know what risks it brings. nuKudo CRO Yaniv Kapluto on the Cyber Insurance News Podcast: What we see right now is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to AI risk. ▶️ YouTube: youtu.be/OtAdojzj2Xo?...

NEW PODCAST The easiest way into any organization isn't the firewall. It's the person sitting at the desk next to you. nuKudo CRO Yaniv Kapluto (Capeluto) joined the Cyber Insurance News Podcast to unpack why human error remains the soft belly of every cybersecurity strategy.

Only 1 in 4! Lee Nolan, General Manager UK and Ireland at Hitachi Vantara, makes a point in our latest podcast episode that is hard to argue with. Consider MFA. First-line defenses that have existed for years. A quarter of organizations have them in place. Three-quarters do not.

NEW PODCAST - When did you last ask your CISO how long it takes to recover from a cyberattack? That is the question Lee Nolan, GM UK and Ireland at Hitachi Vantara, leaves every business leader with at the end of our conversation. It sounds simple. For most organizations, the answer is not.

Security leaders used to walk into a room and say they were ready. Matt Mosley has spent years on the other end of that claim, arriving after the systems are encrypted and the backups are gone. His assessment is direct. Confidence without practice is not readiness. It is exposure.

NEW PODCAST Are Your Cyber Insurance Policy and Incident Response Plan Aligned? It is not if but when. Most business leaders know that. Fewer act on it. A cyberattack lands like any bad day, sudden, disorienting, and expensive.

AI Is Now On Both Sides Of The Cyber Fight. White hat: finding vulnerabilities before attackers do. Black hat: scaling attacks, automating reconnaissance, making phishing undetectable. Does your cyber insurance policy protect you? 🎙️ Full episode 👇 Links Below

"We just paid the ransom, and then we're back in business." No! Here's what actually happens→Ransom payment→ $10M+ in third-party damages →Class action suits→HIPAA exposure→Weeks of business interruption. Ransomware is never just one bill. 🎙️ Watch the clip and get the new episode ⬇️

NEW PODCAST - Cyber Insurance Blind Spots Only 15% of successful cyber attacks ever become public. The other 85% are absorbed quietly: ransomware payments, data exfiltrations, and business interruptions, often at the direct request of the breached organization. That silence has a cost.

NEW PODCAST - A CISO at a major bank was asked how he stores the most sensitive admin credentials. His answer: On his laptop, a single account with admin access to the most sensitive parts of the company systems. One point of failure. Pressed on the risk, he replied: "I'm very careful."

A CISO at a major bank was asked how his organization stores its most sensitive admin credentials. His answer: On his laptop, a single account with admin access to the most sensitive parts of the company systems. One point of failure. When pressed on the risk, his response was: "I'm very careful."

NEW PODCAST One vendor. Every customer's data. Gone. SplitSecure CEO TristanMorris breaks down why vendors are statistically the #1 cyber threat to the businesses that hire them. The car dealership story is one every underwriter needs to hear. 🎙️ New clip out now and full episode at these spots

This clip from the latest Cyber Insurance News and Information Podcast highlights an important shift in small business risk. Kyle Jude of Veracity Insurance Solutions explains why small business cyber insurance increasingly belongs in the same conversation as traditional business coverages.

🔴 NEW PODCAST! The first loss is often only the beginning! In this clip from the latest Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast, Kyle Jude from Veracity Insurance Solutions, explains how a cyberattack that results in a $53,000 payroll loss can turn into a much bigger and more costly problem.

Cybersecurity Risk Quantification: Bitdefender Launches Free Risk Assessment Better Than An All-You-Can-Eat Buffet? A free cybersecurity risk quantification with no calories and fewer security gaps. Watch and read about it: cyberinsurancenews.org/cybersecurit... #cybersecurity #cyberinsurance

The CISO role is changing and fast. From our most recent podcast with Max Martina. One thing that stood out: CISO leadership today has less to do with technical control and more to do with influence across the organization.

Cyber risk isn’t just an IT problem. It’s easier to treat it that way. But the reality? It’s shared across the organization—and leadership has to own it. Clip from our latest podcast with Max Martina 👇 Full episode links below

🚨 New Podcast Episode + Clip Cyber risk isn’t just a technology problem; it’s a leadership test. In the latest episode of the Cyber Insurance News and Information Podcast, Martin Hinton sat down with Max Martina, President of Cambridge Leadership Associates.

Why does cyber insurance need verifiable risk data and not "hope and a prayer"? In this clip from our latest Cyber Insurance News and Information Podcast, Jessica Newman, Global GM of Cyber Insurance at Sophos, explains the challenge insurers face when underwriting cyber risk.

In this clip from our latest Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast, Jessica Newman, Global GM of Cyber Insurance at Sophos, explains why small business cyber insurance is often far more affordable than many owners expect.

Cyber insurance underwriting is entering a new phase. In this clip, Jessica Newman, Global GM of Cyber Insurance at Sophos, explains the industry shift toward telemetry-based cyber insurance underwriting powered by continuous data.

We have horded data. Justifiable and necessary, or simply because we could. Either way, we've got the data. In this clip from our most recent podcast, Josh Mason, CTO of RecordPoint, explains how AI systems can analyze massive data estates and make classification decisions quickly and accurately.

New Podcast - New Clip Data governance starts with four questions: Josh Mason of RecordPoint breaks it down in this clip from the Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast. #DataGovernance #CyberRisk #CyberInsurance #CyberSecurity #InformationGovernance #RiskManagement

AI risk is moving fast and Chris Kelly (Delinea) says it’s fundamentally an identity problem. The takeaway: use this cautious adoption window to tighten identity controls before the pace changes. #AIRisk #IdentitySecurity #Cybersecurity #CyberInsurance

"NEVER. EVER. EVER." You can’t effectively defend or protect what you don't know about. In this clip from our podcast, Chris Kelly (Delinea) explains why he’s “never” heard an organization claim it knows where all identities are in its environment.

Quick highlight from the latest Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast. Martin Hinton asked Chris Kelly, President of Delinea, what conversation a CISO should stop delaying.

Non-human identities. Over half the internet’s traffic isn’t people. It’s automation. Robots. Processes. In our latest Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast, Marshall Sorenson Sorensen (Myriad360) breaks it down.

Clip from the latest episode of The Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast: U.S. vs U.K. cyber insurance. Glen Williams, CEO of UK-based Cyberfort, discusses how the U.S. market has been quicker to link verified security controls to premium reductions.

A new episode of the Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast is out. Here’s a short clip on how a cyberattack can start with something as simple as a hi-vis vest and a polite request at reception.

Most small-business cyber insurance losses never make headlines. Big brands make the news. Quiet SMB breaches often don’t. In this clip from our most recent podcast, Dustin Carlson, CPCU from SRA 831(b) Admin, explains why that missing data matters.

Small businesses are not “too small to target.” They’re often the easier target. In this clip from the latest Cyber Insurance News & Information podcast, Dustin Carlson, CPCU, President of SRA 831(b) Admin, discusses why cybercriminals go after small and mid-sized private companies.

In the latest Cyber Insurance News & Information podcast, Executive Editor Martin Hinton interviews Dustin Carlson, CPCU, President of SRA 831(b) Admin. Carlson explains 831(b) using a 401(k) analogy and frames it as a tax-deferred “rainy day” fund for cyber breach and business interruption.

🚨 New Podcast Clip: Shadow AI - Risk And Solution 🚨 We’ve heard about Shadow AI, where employees, either unintentionally or in violation of policy, paste sensitive IP, client data, or financial information into "public" AI tools. What's the fix?

Most organizations still aren’t protected enough. In this new clip from the Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast, Jason Makevich shares a blunt view: the only reason more businesses haven’t been devastated at a massive scale is that there aren’t enough cybercriminals yet.

🚨 New Podcast + First Clip Drop 🚨 A systemic failure may be closer than many organizations expect. In this clip from the latest Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast, Jason Makevich, CISSP, Founder & CEO of Greenlight Cyber and Founder of PORT1, Inc., makes a prediction:

Cyber Insurance For Small Businesses should not feel like a maze. What would improve Cyber Insurance For Small Businesses the most: clearer policies, simpler questionnaires, or automated validation?

Many business owners buy cyber liability insurance, thinking it covers every “cyber” loss. It doesn’t. In this clip, from the Cyber Insurance News Podcast, Max Perkins from Spektrum Labs explains why some incidents fall outside coverage, even when they feel like a straightforward claim.

🚨 NEW PODCAST 🚨 Cyber Insurance Market: "Broken?" In the latest Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast, Martin Hinton sat down with Max Perkins, Head of Insurance Solutions at Spektrum Labs, to talk about why growth will stall without better proof. Watch the Clip - Links to episode follow

One of the quickest ways to lose control of the narrative in incident response is to assume your audience understands the basics. They often don’t, and that’s normal. When a big company has an incident, the story reaches far beyond cyber circles.

🚨 NEW PODCAST 🚨 “The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter. ’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning,” is how Mark Twain put it. He may not have been talking about a cyberattack, but his admonition still applies.

Most people have heard of deepfakes. Far fewer understand how little it now takes to create one. In this clip from the Cyber Insurance NewsPodcast, Trent C., COO of Cowbell, explains that you only need 8 seconds of someone’s voice for AI to build a clone for vishing or voice-based deepfakes.

Many SMEs still believe, “We’re too small to be a target.” The data tells a different story. SME cyber risk has moved from a theoretical concern to a persistent, day-to-day exposure.

🚨 NEW PODCAST 🚨 Does the general public really understand how big cybercrime has become? Most people know it’s “a problem,” but do they know we’re talking trillions of dollars in impact?

🚨 NEW PODCAST CLIP 💡 WASH YOUR "DIGITAL HANDS" 🧼 🫶 Many people worry about online security but feel unsure where to start or what to ask. In a recent Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast, Graylog, Inc. CMO Kimber Spradlin discusses cyber hygiene in straightforward, everyday terms.

Is it AI, or is it machine learning? In this clip from the latest Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast, Kimber Spradlin, CMO at Graylog, Inc., explains the difference in plain language.

🚨 NEW PODCAST! 🚨 Most of us treat the unsubscribe link as harmless housekeeping. In our latest Cyber Insurance News & Information podcast, Graylog, (@graylog.bsky.social) CMO Kimber Spradlin explains why that can be a serious mistake.

Ransomware Ban. Where do you stand? Watch the whole podcast: YouTube - youtu.be/VOJggNkoiDI?... Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/1s41... Amazon – music.amazon.com/podcasts/249... Apple – music.amazon.com/podcasts/249... #RansomwareBan #ransomware #cyberinsurance #cybersecurity #riskmanagement

One vendor can be the single point of failure for hundreds of insureds. In this clip from the Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast, Peter Foster explains why underwriters focus so hard on third-party providers: a breach at one shared vendor can turn a single incident into a portfolio event.

Many organisations are confident in their cyber readiness. Far fewer have actually tested it. In this short clip from the latest, Executive Editor Martin Hinton chats with Peter Foster, Chairman of Willis’ Global FINEX Cyber Solutions.

AI Risk Liability: Why AI Failures Break Traditional Insurance Models AI doesn’t fail the way we expect. Its errors are stochastic, random, emergent, and impossible to predict using the historical data that traditional risk models depend on.

AI Risk isn’t theoretical anymore it’s already inside your operation. As AI systems become part of every business operation, policyholders, brokers, and underwriters face a hard question: When an AI model fails or makes a decision that causes harm is it actually covered by insurance?

🚨 NEW PODCAST 🚨 AI Risk: The Insurance Industry’s Next Ransomware Moment? AI systems are already running business decisions, customer interactions, and security operations, but who covers the loss when AI fails?

Heard of the butterfly effect—but what about the digital version? In this clip from the latest Cyber Insurance News & Information podcast, ransomware negotiator Kurtis Minder connect “small” incidents to large-scale impact across real networks and supply chains.

Ransomware is not random crime. In this clip from our latest podcast, ransomware negotiator Kurtis Minder discusses ransomware in the context of information warfare, including how disinformation and disruption serve broader objectives, who may be behind attacks, and where the money can end up.

Ransomware negotiation is not purely technical, it’s human. In this clip from our latest Podcast, host Martin Hinton asks about guilt, blame, fear, and disruption. Kurtis Minder explains how technology can dehumanize and why recognizing that participants are people improves outcomes.

NEW PODCAST Ransomware negotiations can look like everyday business deals. Attackers set price floors. They escalate approvals. Sometimes the “manager” jumps into the chat mid-stream.

♻️ The Identity Fraud Cycle. Most people believe identity fraud ends once they’ve recovered from it. The reality?

In this clip from the Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast, host Martin Hinton and Michael Scheumack, Chief Innovation Officer at IdentityIQ, explain how your credit report can reveal the earliest signs of identity theft before the real damage is done.

If it feels urgent, pause. 🚨 That simple advice could stop most cyber scams before they start.

Being online today is like traveling between towns in the Wild West. When you’re in transit, you’re exposed, and so is your data. Martin Hinton and Vivek Ramachandran, founder of SquareX, discuss why the browser has become the new frontier for attackers.

In this clip from the Cyber Insurance News Podcast, cybersecurity expert Vivek Ramachandran, founder of SquareX, shares three quick browser security tips. ✅ Tip 1: Watch default settings. ✅ Tip 2: Avoid shady extensions. ✅ Tip 3: Don’t chase vanity metrics. Full episode links pinned to profile.

🚨 Syncjacking: a simple browser attack with devastating results. In this clip from the Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast, cybersecurity expert Vivek Ramachandran, founder of SquareX, explains how attackers exploit Chrome’s sync feature. Full episode links are pinned to our profile.

🚨 NEW PODCAST 🚨 Criminals always go where the valuables are. In today’s workplace, that’s the browser. In this clip from the Cyber Insurance News & Information Podcast, Vivek Ramachandran, founder of SquareX, explains why browser security is now the frontline of digital defense.