An email asks you to open a client’s updated application. A caller says your carrier login needs to be reset. An invoice arrives with new payment instructions. These requests can fit naturally into an insurance agency’s day, which makes verifying them important. Cyberattacks are attempts to gain unauthorized access, steal information or money, or disrupt
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Your agency helps clients prepare for losses. Cyber insurance asks you to apply that same thinking to your own business. Cyber insurance helps pay for eligible financial losses caused by cyber incidents, such as data breaches, ransomware, or a compromised email account. Understanding it starts with the information your agency handles and the systems your
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What Is Spear Phishing? Spear Phishing is a targeted email attack aimed at one specific person or organization, built using real details about the target to look convincing: a vendor’s name, a client’s policy number, even the writing style of someone you actually work with. How It’s Different From Regular Phishing A generic phishing email might claim to be from “your bank” with
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This Is the Attack That Read Your Emails for Six Weeks Before Anyone Knew Business email compromise does not break in. It gets comfortable and waits, and insurance agencies are exactly the kind of business it waits inside. Six weeks ago, an attacker got access to a mailbox at an insurance agency. Not a large
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