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 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 May 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 […]

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 IP theft, endowment and financial data, HIPAA overlap for campus health systems, […]

By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 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 May 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 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 May 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 May 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 May 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 May 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 May 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 […]

By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 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 […]

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. For a full guide to MSP cyber insurance including pricing benchmarks […]

By Ryan Windt | Head of Growth Marketing | Updated May 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 May 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 May 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 […]