By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Most businesses think about a cyberattack as something that happens to their data. The records get stolen, the systems get locked, the operation grinds to a halt for a while, and then it comes back. What far fewer businesses plan for is the […]
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By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 For most of the last decade, cyber underwriting focused almost entirely on what was inside your own walls: your MFA, your backups, your endpoint protection. That made sense when most attacks targeted the insured directly. It makes much less sense now, when some […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Most security programs are built to stop attacks that arrive by email or through software. Vishing works because it arrives by phone, where there is no spam filter, no link to scan, and no attachment to detonate in a sandbox. Just a human […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Most controls underwriters check are about keeping attackers out. Logging and monitoring is different. It is the control that determines what happens once someone gets in, and increasingly it is the one that separates a contained incident from a catastrophic claim. When forensics […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Telehealth stopped being a pandemic workaround years ago. It is now core infrastructure for behavioral health networks, primary care startups, remote patient monitoring vendors, e-prescribing platforms, and the digital front doors of large health systems. That shift created a category of company that […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Co-managed IT is one of the fastest-growing service models for MSPs, and one of the murkiest from a liability standpoint. In a fully managed relationship, the lines are reasonably clear: the MSP runs the environment, and the MSP’s contracts and insurance are built […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 When a business tells a cyber underwriter “we follow NIST,” that sentence does almost nothing on its own. Underwriters do not price policies on framework names. They price on the specific controls a framework produces and on whether you can prove those controls […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Email security has gotten significantly better at catching phishing links. Secure email gateways scan URLs, sandbox suspicious attachments, and flag known malicious domains before they reach an inbox. Attackers noticed. Quishing is the response. Instead of embedding a malicious link directly in an […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Marketing and advertising agencies sit in an unusual position when it comes to cyber risk. They are not banks. They are not hospitals. They do not handle Social Security numbers or medical records in the ordinary course of business. So the assumption at […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 The Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act is now law, and its reporting timelines are not suggestions. When CISA’s final rules take effect, covered entities that experience a significant cyber incident will have 72 hours to report it to the federal government. […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Zero trust is not a product. It is not a certification. And it is not something you either have or do not have. It is an architecture philosophy built on one principle: no user, device, or system should be trusted by default, regardless […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Pharmacies sit at an intersection of healthcare data sensitivity, financial transaction volume, and regulatory complexity that creates a distinct cyber risk profile. They hold prescription histories, diagnoses, and medication records that are protected under HIPAA. They process payment transactions at the point of […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 When a ransomware attack hits and the question of whether to pay becomes real, most businesses assume the decision is theirs to make. That assumption is often wrong. Cyber insurance policies contain a consent to settle clause that governs who has the authority […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 When a ransomware attack encrypts your systems or a cyber incident takes your operations offline, the financial damage doesn’t stop at remediation costs. Every hour your business can’t operate is revenue you won’t recover. Payroll continues. Rent continues. Contracts have deadlines. Customers go […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Registered investment advisers and wealth management firms occupy a specific position in the financial services cyber insurance market. They hold detailed client financial data, manage access to investment accounts, and process wire transfers on behalf of clients. They are subject to SEC oversight, […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 Mental health records are among the most sensitive categories of protected health information under HIPAA. Therapy notes, psychiatric diagnoses, substance use treatment records, and medication histories carry a stigma risk that goes beyond what most other health data involves. A patient whose cardiologist’s […]