By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 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 […]
Coverage & Policy Education
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By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 2026 Cyber liability insurance is a standalone business insurance policy that covers the financial costs of a cyber incident. That includes the direct costs your business incurs responding to an attack and the liability costs that arise when a breach affects your customers, clients, […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 2026 A prior breach does not disqualify you from getting cyber insurance. But it does change the conversation with underwriters materially, and businesses that go into the application process without understanding how prior incidents are evaluated often end up surprised by what they receive, […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 2026 Cyber insurance underwriting has changed more in the last four years than in the previous decade. The checkbox questionnaire that most businesses filled out in 2019 and received a policy within 48 hours has been replaced by a process that involves evidence requests, […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 2026 Data breach insurance is coverage that pays for the costs a business incurs when unauthorized parties access or expose sensitive information. That includes the immediate response costs (forensic investigation, legal review, and breach notification) and the liability costs that follow when affected individuals […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 Most businesses that buy cyber insurance never read the policy. They review the quote, approve the premium, and file the documents somewhere they will not look at again until something goes wrong. That is exactly when the language in those documents starts to […]
Cyber Threats & Incident Analysis
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The Change Healthcare Breach: What Every Healthcare Organization Needs to Know About Cyber Insurance
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 In February 2024, attackers affiliated with the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group accessed a single Citrix remote access portal at Change Healthcare. The portal had no multi-factor authentication. Nine days later, they deployed ransomware. What followed was the largest cyber event in U.S. healthcare history. […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 Business email compromise was already the highest-loss cybercrime category in the United States before artificial intelligence entered the picture. The FBI’s 2025 IC3 report put BEC losses at $2.77 billion across more than 21,000 complaints. That number was built largely on old-fashioned social […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 Most businesses buy cyber insurance hoping they never have to use it. But when a ransomware attack hits, a breach notification lands in your inbox, or a wire transfer disappears into a fraudulent account, the policy you bought suddenly becomes the most important […]
By Kyle Sawdey, CRO & EVP of Underwriting, SeedPod Cyber | March 2026 In early January, the Crimson Collective extortion group posted to Telegram claiming they had stolen the personal data of more than one million Brightspeed customers. Names, email addresses, phone numbers, billing addresses, service records, partial payment card data, account status. Brightspeed, a […]
By Kyle Sawdey | CRO & EVP of Underwriting | Updated April 2026 By now, most people in our industry have seen the headlines. Stryker, a Fortune 300 medical device giant with $25 billion in revenue, had its global Microsoft environment hit by a destructive wiper attack on March 11. Over 200,000 endpoints wiped. 50 […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 For years, cyber risk conversations focused on stolen data. How many records were exposed? Was customer information compromised? What were the notification costs? That framing is now outdated. Business interruption has overtaken data theft as the single largest financial driver of cyber insurance […]
Industry Verticals
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By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 E-commerce businesses occupy an unusual position in the cyber risk landscape. You may not think of yourself as a financial institution or a healthcare organization, but from a cybercriminal’s perspective you hold something equally valuable: a continuous stream of payment card data, customer […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 Real estate transactions move large sums of money on tight timelines, with multiple parties exchanging wire instructions over email. That combination, speed, high dollar amounts, and email-dependent coordination, makes mortgage brokers and title companies one of the most targeted business categories in the […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 Credit unions sit at the intersection of two things cybercriminals love: member trust and financial data. You hold Social Security numbers, account details, loan records, and direct deposit information for tens of thousands of members. And unlike large banks, most credit unions operate […]
Cyber Insurance for Fintech Companies: Coverage, Risk, and What Underwriters Are Actually Evaluating
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 Fintech companies occupy one of the most complex underwriting positions in the entire cyber insurance market. They are technology companies, which means they carry professional liability exposure for platform failures and service errors. They are financial services companies, which means they handle sensitive […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 Most SaaS companies approach cyber insurance the same way they approach a vendor security questionnaire. Fill it out, check the boxes, move on. The policy lands in email, someone files it away, and the assumption is that the company is covered. That assumption […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 K-12 schools are one of the most targeted sectors in the entire cyber insurance market. The data is not ambiguous about this. The U.S. led the world in education-sector ransomware attacks in 2025 with 130 confirmed and suspected incidents. A RAND Corporation survey […]
Security Controls & Compliance
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By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 Tech companies and SaaS businesses working toward SOC 2 compliance tend to ask a version of the same question at some point: if we have SOC 2, do we still need cyber insurance? The short answer is yes. But the more useful answer […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 Most businesses set up email and never think about it again. The domain works. Mail goes out. Replies come back. That is the entire mental model. It is also why email remains the entry point for the majority of cyber insurance claims filed […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 If you have filled out a cyber insurance application in the last 12 months, you have seen the credential and access control questions getting longer. Two years ago, underwriters wanted to know if you had MFA on email and remote access. A year […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 If you have filled out a cyber insurance application in the last two years, you have seen the EDR question. It shows up in different forms depending on the carrier, but the intent is always the same: do you have endpoint detection and […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 If you have read anything about qualifying for cyber insurance in the last two years, you have seen the phrase “immutable backups” somewhere in the requirements list. It appears in underwriting questionnaires, in policy conditions, in carrier declination letters, and in post-incident forensic […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 Most businesses have some version of an incident response plan. It lives in a shared drive somewhere, it was written two or three years ago by someone who has since left the company, and nobody has looked at it since. That document will […]
MSP & Broker Resources
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By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 2026 Most MSPs shopping for cyber insurance run into the same problem: they get quotes written for generic small businesses, not for companies that hold privileged access to dozens of client environments simultaneously. The policy that works for a dental practice or a law […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 2026 When an MSP applies for cyber insurance, underwriters are not just evaluating the MSP’s own security controls. They are evaluating the entire client base the MSP manages. The industries your clients are in, the size and number of clients you serve, how their […]
Something fundamental changed in the threat landscape in early 2026. The window between a vulnerability being discovered and an attacker weaponizing it—a window that averaged over two years as recently as 2018—has collapsed to under 24 hours. For Managed Service Providers, this is not a background trend to monitor. It is an operational reality that […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated April 2026 The Short Version Managed security service providers carry a fundamentally different insurance exposure than MSPs. The moment you take on an explicit security mandate, whether that is SOC monitoring, threat detection, incident response, or vulnerability management, you are no longer just managing IT. […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated March 2026 Most MSPs know their clients need cyber insurance. The harder part is the conversation. Clients push back. They say they’re too small to be a target. They say their existing coverage handles it. They ask why their MSP is suddenly talking about insurance. […]
By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated March 2026 When a client suffers a breach, the technical work is only half the battle. The rest is legal, financial, and reputational, and that is where many MSPs get pulled into disputes they were not prepared for. Embedding client-owned cyber insurance into your service […]
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