Proactive Agents Employ Cyber-Risk Assessments to Write More Business

Proactive Agents Employ Cyber-Risk Assessments to Write More Business A recent survey found that 82% of global insurers expect rises in cyber premiums to continue for 2 years, due to their inability to accurately understand a customer’s security posture. 87% of insurers "want a consistent approach to analyzing cyber risk,...

BEN FRANKLIN: Cyber visionary

A Lesson from Ben Franklin on Cyber-Protection Ben Franklin is famous for pithy wisdom, and one of his most famous sayings is: “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” In colonial America, the biggest threat to life and property, aside from disease, was the risk of fire,...

When does MFA require F2A?

When does MFA require F2A? It's tough to find a cyber insurer today who does not require their insureds to deploy multi-factor authentication (aka MFA) across their organization. It’s a fairly well-understood concept to most agents that it's now a “No-MFA, No Play” game, and the absence of a positive...

808 Podcast Hosts TEKRiSQ’s Bill Haber

808 Podcast: Bill Haber of TEKRiSQ spells out cyber risk in 8 minutes, 8 seconds   https://808podcast.com/808-podcasts/310-bill-haber-tekrisq-2/

TEKRiSQ accepted into 2022 CyberTech|X Cohort

https://www.tampabaywave.org/2022/01/meet-the-15-cybersecurity-startups-in-tampa-bay-waves-2022-cybertechx-accelerator-cohort/

5 Unpopular Predictions for Cyber Insurers in 2022

Cyber Insurers Should Innovate or Expect a Brutal Year As the crazy rollercoaster ride of 2021's cyber insurance market comes to a close, many diverse end-of-year predictions are being published. TEKRiSQ's data-driven observations from numerous real-world client conversations predict more of the same... and then some. Here they are; SMB...

Business Owners Remain Overconfident About Cyber Threats

There is an issue we have seen time and time again - business owners do not understand or appreciate their cyber risk and they remain overconfident about their ransomware risks.   According to a recent article citing an Embroker report published in Carrier Management, business owners remain” vastly overconfident about both...

Property Casualty 360: TEKRiSQ’s 5 Myths About Insuring Cyber Risks

Do you know these five myths about insuring cyber risks? By Dean Mechlowitz | October 07, 2021 at 12:00 AM Independent agents and brokers serving small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) must keep up with twists and turns in cyber risk and cyber insurance. If they don’t, their clients and prospects can turn to “do it yourself”...

Fantasy Island Friday: Episode 1

An opportunity to laugh at the pervasive myths in the cyber insurance industry. EPISODE 1: Client Passions for Completing Applications In this episode, we indulge one of the insurance industries greatest fantasies of all… the belief that insurance clients everywhere absolutely adore the process of completing your Cyber, Crime and Errors...

AI vs IA

AI v IA: Which Serves the Needs of Cyber Insurance Now? Artificial Intelligence (AI) has the potential to impact every industry, and numerous InsurTech startups want to solve industry problems with it. These are ambitious goals that can be very effective with mature volumes of industry data. AI applications are...