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Cyber Insurance Is Starting to Ask Harder Questions Before It Pays Out

October 25, 2026

For years, buying cyber insurance felt a lot like buying any other policy: fill out a form, pay a premium, and if something goes wrong, file a claim. That transactional relationship is quietly breaking down. Insurers are no longer content to simply absorb the financial fallout of a breach — many now want proof that a company can actually stop, catch, or contain an attack before they agree to cover it. The shift matters because it changes what a cyber insurance policy actually is: not just a financial backstop, but an increasingly active participant in how companies defend themselves.

Cybersecurity

Why the Best Cybersecurity Hires Ask “Why?” Before They Ask “How?”

August 7, 2026

A security team can have impressive tools, a long résumé on every analyst’s LinkedIn, and still miss the one attacker who never triggered an alert. That is not a hypothetical anymore. It is, according to a growing chorus of security leaders and a handful of recent studies, the defining problem of cybersecurity work in the age of AI — and it’s quietly rewriting what companies look for when they hire.

Cybersecurity

The CISO’s New Job: Less Firewall, More Boardroom

July 29, 2026

Charles Blauner has spent nearly three decades protecting some of the world’s largest banks from people whose full-time job is to break in. Now, as he looks back from the vantage point of JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and Citigroup, he says the hardest part of being a chief information security officer was never really about the technology — it was about getting a chocolate-company executive to care about a server patch.