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Myths through the ages Myths are, always have been, and always will be an intrinsic element of human society. Myths like the Golden Fleece, Minotaurs, Unicorns, Cupid, Excalibur, and thousands of others have taken center stage in different segments of human life at different times, disappeared, and been replaced by newer tales and folklore. Myths… Continue reading The Myth of the Digital Insurer (From 2021)
All of us - people and businesses - leverage, in some degree, the reality that the marketplace is rapidly becoming an interconnected mobile, digital network. IP-enabled smartphones and tablets (and watches), owned and used by millions of people across the planet, enable a never-ending flow of data, knowledge, and business transactions throughout this network. One… Continue reading Platform Possibilities for Insurance Sales
Every person realizes, at least I hope they do, that society - and the world - is moving into a new state of being: a new realm, a cyber realm if you will, that is being continually reshaped by five technological forces: digitalization, mobility, the Internet, the cloud, and artificial intelligence. (I'll use the "web"… Continue reading The Cyber Butterfly: Risk Management Challenges
Too many people throw around the term "Black Swan" willy-nilly (a technical phrase for 'far too quickly without justification'). Systemic cyber events will become the norm. These systemic cyber events will all be "white swans". I suggest that most cyber attacks are systemic cyber attacks, but currently not with the reach of the CrowdStrike cyber… Continue reading The “Every Day-ness” of Black Swans in the Cyber Age
I have worked for insurance carriers (in marketing / market research areas) for almost 20 years beginning in the mid-1960s, been a management consultant (operational, strategy, and product development gigs) to the insurance industry for almost 10 years, and been an insurance industry analyst since 1997 (focused on the ways current and emerging technologies do… Continue reading Two Cyber Issues: Insurability & Financial Returns of selling cyber cover
I almost titled this post "Something Wicked This Way Comes" but I realized that systemic cyber risks are already here. They have come. There is no shutting the door to keep systemic cyber risks out. They are an attribute of any portfolio of two or more companies linked together through the use of the web.… Continue reading Systemic Cyber Risks: Ever Present, Ever Expanding (Originally published late 2023 – no changes)
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
Game of Thrones, Season 7, Episode 3 - After the Lannister army had marched on Highgarden, Jamie Lannister went to visit Lady Olenna in her room. And before she drank the poison he gave to her, she told him: "Whatever I imagined necessary for the safety of House Tyrell, I did," says Olenna. "But your… Continue reading “Unimaginable”: The Dilemma of Imagining Yet-to-Emerge Cyber Attacks
"Alice asked the Cheshire Cat, who was sitting in a tree, “What road do I take?” The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?” “I don't know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn't matter, does it?" Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll November 1865 The insurance industry is being quickly surrounded… Continue reading Total Insurable Space of Profitable Underwriting Shrinking??? (Thought Piece)
The concept of topography, specifically related to cyber attack spaces, has been rattling in my head for the past few months. What are the shapes of current cyber attack spaces? What are the shapes of future cyber attack spaces? What might a person include as categories (and elements of the categories) of cyber attack spaces… Continue reading Potential Categories of a Cyber Attack Space Topography
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