How Shifts in Cyber Insurance Are Affecting the Security Landscape

The article argues that rising costs from cyberattacks and high-profile outages are forcing cyber insurers to tighten underwriting and require stronger data protection, which will accelerate adoption of resiliency practices. It highlights growing ransom amounts, insurer loss estimates, and recommends immutable, encrypted backups, segmented storage, and frequent disaster-recovery testing as key mitigations to reduce downtime, ransom risk, and insurance exposure.