Global insurance trends

US Deals: Cowbell Cyber Raises $20m in Series A Funding

Cowbell Cyber, the industry’s first AI-powered cyber insurance provider for small to medium enterprises (SMEs), has announced that it has closed $20 Million in Series A funding to scale its game-changing offering for continuous underwriting […]

Insurance Brokers

Northdoor Cyber Report: Threats, Antidotes & Broker Scores

Northdoor plc has released its 2021 insurance sector cyber security assessment report which reveals how the sector is responding to threats and where vulnerabilities lie. Using the RiskXchange Cyber Risk Rating, the assessment analysed over […]

Opinion

Public-Private Partnership Is Key To Defeating Cyber Attacks

This latest Opinion piece looks at Why We Need a Public-Private Partnership to Grow the Cyber Insurance Market. It’s by Seth Rachlin, Ph.D. Global Insurance Industry Leader, Capgemini. We are only beginning to assess its […]

UK Insurance Trends

Academic Suggests Making Ransomware Payments Illegal

Professor Ciaran Martin told the The Guardian last week that he feels ransomware is `close to getting out of control,’ and that UK insurers are inadvertently funding organised crime by paying out on ransomware claims. […]

Opinion

Cyber Threat Is The Big Risk To Distribution Chains, Says Loadsure

This latest Opinion piece is by Meshach Weber, CMO/CXO of Loadsure, the cargo insurance specialists. Now traditionally, marine and shipping insurance hasn’t been a top target for hackers and ransomware criminals, but as ships become […]

InsureTech

Verisk and BlueVoyant Team Up on Cyber Insights

Verisk (Nasdaq: VRSK), a leading data and analytics company, and BlueVoyant, a cybersecurity services company, have announced a strategic partnership that will enable Verisk to exclusively offer insights driven by BlueVoyant’s industry-leading cybersecurity monitoring technology to insurers […]