Category: Cyber Insights

How to Know If Your Agency Is Actually Protected: 4 Core Controls

How to Know If Your Agency Is Actually Protected: 4 Core Controls

There is a question that comes up in almost every conversation we have with agency owners who are thinking seriously about cybersecurity.  “Is what I have enough?”  Not “what do I have?” They usually have a sense of that. The question is whether they have met the bar. I have found the honest answer, in most cases, is that

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Business Email Compromise: How BEC Attacks Hit Agencies

Business Email Compromise: How BEC Attacks Hit Agencies

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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Why Small Insurance Agencies Are Cyber Attack Targets

Why Small Insurance Agencies Are Cyber Attack Targets

Your Agency Is Exactly the Size Attackers Are Looking For Assuming you are too small to be hit by a cyber attack is putting you at risk. Cyber attacks on small insurance agencies are not the exception attackers make — they are the business model. I have seen it before: people who thought they were

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Cyber Insurance MFA Requirement: What Agents Must Know

Cyber Insurance MFA Requirement: What Agents Must Know

Your Cyber Insurance Might Not Cover You Carriers are requiring more from insurance agents, and most agencies are missing one basic thing they don’t even know about: a cyber insurance MFA requirement now sitting quietly inside their policy conditions. PIA Connection magazine dedicated a major feature in their 2026 Issue 1 to detailing where cyber

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