Gallagher Re recorded a sharp reset in cyber reinsurance pricing
Gallagher Re recorded a sharp reset in cyber reinsurance pricing at the 1 January 2026 renewals, with risk-adjusted rates for aggregate excess of loss protection down 32%
Cyber insurance generally covers business’ liability for a data breach involving sensitive customer information, such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, account numbers, driver’s license numbers and health records. Cyber risk means any risk of financial loss, disruption or damage to the reputation of an organisation from some sort of failure of its information technology systems.
Gallagher Re recorded a sharp reset in cyber reinsurance pricing at the 1 January 2026 renewals, with risk-adjusted rates for aggregate excess of loss protection down 32%
Cybersecurity startup Zepo Intelligence, focused on protecting organizations from AI-driven, human-targeted social engineering attacks, has closed a €12.8 mn Seed round
CyberCube argues actionable data and tighter operations will shape results for cyber insurers and reinsurers over the next year
US Federal Judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by shareholders of CrowdStrike, an American cybersecurity company known for its cloud-native platform that protects corporate
Cyber incidents again rank as the leading global business risk heading into 2026, while artificial intelligence surged into second place, according to the latest Allianz Risk Barometer
The cyber reinsurance market entered the Jan. 1, 2026 renewals with capacity well beyond what buyers needed, levels that would have seemed unrealistic only a few years ago
The cyber insurance market in 2025 is showing two conflicting trends. Large corporates are tougher, with better-prepared systems that cut into the cost of major attacks
Cyber insurance keeps sprinting to match a threat environment that mutates every quarter, and it still feels behind the curve
The New York Department hit eight auto insurers and agencies with more than $19 mn in fines after finding inadequate cybersecurity controls that exposed consumer data
The Salesloft-Drift OAuth incident was a major security breach where attackers stole OAuth tokens from Salesloft’s development platform, which were then used to access customer data
Cowbell expects the cyber insurance market to keep expanding at great speed through 2026. Rising cyber threat levels will push insurers to tighten controls
Wideum leans heavily into cybersecurity because remote-assistance software lives or dies on trust. The company rebuilt its stack around tighter encryption
Africa Specialty Risks has stepped into the cyber market with a digital quote-and-bind product aimed at businesses across the continent, starting with South Africa, Namibia and Mauritius
Potential insurance losses from Amazon Web Services’ October 20 outage – which the firm dubbed “Amazonk” – between $38 mn and $581 mn