Joining the Mad Hatter's Tea Party
(Originally written and posted in December 2023.) I believe that our world - inclusive of the surface, below in our oceans and lakes and rivers, and above it in the air and in space - is becoming cyber-formed. The cyber-forming is driven by the almost uncountable vast number of multi-dimensional cyber attack spaces that are… Continue reading Our Cyber-Forming World
(From 2022, a WordPress blog post I thought was worth re-publishing). There have been many people I've been fortunate to work with at various companies over the decades of my career who have taught me (or tried to teach me) how to initially approach a problem, how to think about the problem, how to resolve… Continue reading 10 of my “outside influencers”
I'm hypothesizing that when insurers and insurance groups fund startup cyber MGAs or startup cyber insurers they are behaving like VCs hoping to generate desired returns from (some of) their investments. But are they really behaving like VCs - do these insurers (using cyber MGAs) have a plan regarding how much to invest, or a… Continue reading Regarding Cyber Risk Funding- 2
I hope that insurance actuaries and other insurance professionals tasked with pricing and writing cyber insurance policies ask themselves questions like these: Are we taking into account that as we continue to sell cyber insurance in the Cyber Age, that AI technologies and their applications are increasingly making the risk space behave more indeterminate -… Continue reading A Few Insurer Cyber Cover Questions for 2025 (Reprint from August, 2025)
Who benefits from cyber regulations? (From September 25, 2023) Not who should benefit but who will benefit from the seemingly ever-growing number of cyber regulations being issued from increasingly more governments around the world? This post is my opinion about who will benefit. About which entities / participants in the cyber market will benefit. As… Continue reading Cyber Regulations: Cui Bono?
The insurance industry is shifting from one portfolio of risk events that it has identified and managed profitably for thousands of years to a new, and significantly different portfolio of risk events: a plethora of cyber risk events that the insurance industry erroneously believes it can successfully identify and manage profitably. Specifically, the insurance industry… Continue reading The Cyber Medium is the Message
I wrote this post in October 2021 about the fairy tale of VC-disruption of the insurance industry. I believe the thrust of this post remains true if I rewrote it focusing on insurers (and other industries) using AI technology applications ... “History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain Insurance firms, both… Continue reading The Emperor Still Has No Clothes (Insurers Who Believe in VC-Driven Industry Disruption Are The Emperor)
I'm not a doctor or any kind of healthcare provider. This blog post encompasses a jumble of assumptions, questions, and guesses. It palpably demonstrates that I am only a patient of the US healthcare system. But, I hope that I am making the right assumptions, questions, and guesses about hospitals (or the healthcare system overall) and cyber resilience. I'd like you to let me know with your comments to this blog post.
I believe that the future financial viability of selling cyber insurance will be bleak at best and, more than likely, unprofitable. That is my driving assumption about future sales of cyber insurance. When is that "future" going to arrive? Thank you, July 2024 CrowdStrike cyber incident (not a cyber-attack, I know) for giving the world… Continue reading Future Financial Viability of Selling Cyber Insurance: Assumptions; Questions; No Answers
A few weeks ago, I saw a LinkedIn post from Dr. Robert Hartwig that discussed his testimony to one of the US Senate's subcommittees about the uninsurability of Business Income from the Covid-19 pandemic. Seeing that LinkedIn post, and reading his testimony, triggered my ongoing belief that uninsurability of certain risks has been happening more… Continue reading Shift to (Uninsurable) Severity (This WordPress Blog Post is From 2021)
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