By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Every cyber insurance application asks about security controls. The questions vary by carrier, but the controls they care about most have been largely consistent for the past three years: MFA, EDR, immutable backups, email security protocols, privileged access management, and incident response capabilities. […]
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By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Most of the conversation about AI and insurance has focused on tech companies: the developers building AI products, the platforms deploying models at scale, the vendors whose software makes recommendations that affect client outcomes. For those businesses, the coverage question runs through Technology […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Most buyers of cyber insurance focus on limits, deductibles, and premium. Few stop to ask which type of policy they are actually buying. That question matters more than it sounds. Whether your policy is written on a claims-made basis or an occurrence basis […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Trucking and transportation companies have become significantly more exposed to cyber risk over the past decade, and most of that exposure crept in through the back door of operational efficiency improvements. Electronic logging devices are now federally mandated and connected to cellular networks. […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Energy and utility companies operate at the intersection of two things that make cyber risk uniquely consequential: critical infrastructure that cannot tolerate extended downtime, and regulatory frameworks that create enforcement exposure layered on top of any incident response cost. A ransomware attack on […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Churches, synagogues, mosques, and other religious organizations are not the first entities that come to mind when people think about cybercrime targets. That assumption is exactly why they get hit so often. Religious organizations collect and process more financial data than most people […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Municipalities are among the most targeted organizations in the country for ransomware attacks, and among the least equipped to respond without insurance. Cities, counties, townships, water authorities, and other local government entities hold enormous amounts of sensitive resident data, run aging IT infrastructure […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Cyber insurance shows up in M&A transactions in ways that most deal teams are not fully prepared for, and the surprises almost always favor the other side. A target company’s cyber policy can contain exclusions that survive the transaction and limit coverage for […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Life sciences companies sit at the intersection of two things that make cyber attackers move fast: extraordinarily valuable intellectual property and a regulatory environment where a breach is never just an IT problem. A ransomware attack that locks a biotech company out of […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Getting a cyber insurance quote is straightforward. Understanding why your number lands where it does is what most businesses skip, and it’s why so many end up overpaying or locked into coverage that doesn’t fit their actual risk. This post covers what drives […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 2026 Most businesses that think they have no cyber coverage actually have some. And most businesses that think their non-cyber policies cover cyber losses are wrong about the specifics. Both problems trace back to the same concept: silent cyber. Silent cyber refers to cyber-related losses […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 2026 Veterinary practices store client payment data, personal contact information, and detailed medical histories for thousands of patients. They run on practice information management software that, if taken offline, stops the practice cold. And unlike dental or physician offices, they operate almost entirely outside HIPAA, […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 2026 Most businesses find out what their cyber policy covers for incident response at the worst possible moment: when a breach is already in progress. The phone is ringing, systems are down, and someone is asking whether to call the insurer or the IT vendor […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 2026 Retail businesses sit at the intersection of two things cybercriminals want most: payment card data and operational systems they can hold hostage. A single point-of-sale compromise can expose tens of thousands of cardholder records, trigger PCI DSS fines and forensic audits, and generate state-by-state […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 For years, the conventional ransomware narrative positioned MSPs as collateral damage. A client gets hit, the MSP gets pulled into the response, maybe a lawsuit follows. That framing was always incomplete, and by 2025 and into 2026, it stopped being accurate at all. […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Most MSPs know they need Tech E&O insurance. Fewer understand what MSP-specific E&O coverage actually looks like, how it differs from the generic technology professional liability form written for software companies, and what underwriters are evaluating when they write it for a managed […]