By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated September 2026 Retail businesses sit at the intersection of two things cybercriminals want most: payment card data and operational systems they can hold hostage. Cash-heavy, compliance-bound operations face a sharper version of this: see cyber insurance for cannabis dispensaries and companies. A single point-of-sale compromise can expose […]
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By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated July 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 September 2026 The short answer: Tech E&O covers claims that an MSP’s own work, not an attacker, caused a client loss: a bad patch, a botched migration, a missed SLA, a configuration error. It sits alongside cyber insurance, which covers attack-driven incidents, and the two need […]
By Ryan Windt, Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 2026 If you’ve ever filed a commercial property claim, your broker may have mentioned electronic data processing insurance, or EDP coverage, in the same breath as cyber insurance. The two are often sold alongside each other, and in some policies they overlap. But they cover […]
By Ryan Windt, Head of Growth Marketing For years, multi-factor authentication was the answer. If a carrier asked whether your organization had MFA deployed, and you said yes, that was usually enough. The box was checked. The conversation moved on. That era is ending. A class of attack called Adversary-in-the-Middle phishing, or AiTM phishing, has […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated September 2026 Banks are among the most targeted organizations in the world for cyberattacks. The combination of transaction volume, customer financial data, and direct access to payment infrastructure makes banking institutions a permanent fixture on threat actor target lists, from organized criminal groups running account […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated September 2026 Good. The K-12 post is comprehensive and covers the education sector threat landscape well. The higher education post needs to be clearly distinct. Here’s what K-12 owns that higher ed should not repeat in depth: Higher education has its own distinct angles: research […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated September 2026 Ransomware gets most of the attention in conversations about cyber extortion. It is the most common form, the most disruptive, and the one most people have heard of. But ransomware is one type of cyber extortion, not the whole category. Cyber extortion is […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated September 2026 A ransomware attack on a hospital is not an IT problem. It is a patient safety event. When clinical systems go offline, care does not pause. Surgeries get rescheduled or delayed. Medication orders revert to paper. Lab results cannot be transmitted. Nurses document […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated September 2026 Most startups buy cyber insurance for the first time because someone else requires it. A prospective enterprise customer sends a security questionnaire with a certificate of insurance requirement. An investor asks about the company’s risk management program. A contract gets stalled because the […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 2026 If your company holds a federal contract, you are operating in one of the most scrutinized risk environments in commercial insurance. Government contractors handle sensitive federal data, connect to agency systems, and operate under a web of compliance obligations that touches everything from […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated June 2026 A cyber insurance broker is a licensed professional who represents your interests in the insurance market, not the carrier’s. Their job is to access multiple insurance markets on your behalf, present your risk in the best possible light, negotiate terms, and make sure […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated September 2026 The short version: there is no single best cyber insurer for MSPs. The best policy is one built for MSP-specific exposure: aggregation risk across your client base, vicarious liability for the client environments you manage, and Tech E&O coordinated with your cyber coverage so […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated July 2026 When an MSP applies for cyber liability insurance, underwriters are not just evaluating the MSP’s own security controls. They are evaluating the entire client base the MSP manages. For a full overview of MSP cyber insurance including pricing and what your own policy […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated September 2026 Deepfake fraud is now one of the fastest-growing loss categories in commercial cyber insurance, and coverage for it is less certain than most businesses assume. Whether your policy responds to a deepfake-assisted wire transfer fraud depends on when your policy was written, how […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated September 2026 Cyber liability insurance is the policy that pays when a security incident hits your business. It covers the direct costs you face, the legal liability you owe to others, and the response resources you need to contain the damage and get back to […]