This is how we plan to build a world-class engineering culture at Coalition that is capable of scaling with our customers, products, and team.

Scanning the internet is a huge task. I was asked to improve our ability to detect and communicate with exposed SMB services. It was slow, so I made the process faster.

For the last six years, I was the General Manager for CloudWatch and X-Ray at Amazon Web Services.

How Coalition integrated technology variables, traditional rating factors, and mathematical methods to file one of the first admitted cyber products in the state of Florida.

Cybersecurity is a tough risk to quantify (let alone understand) because most business owners and risk managers aren’t experts, and this risk is invisible and incredibly technical.

Sender Policy Framework (SPF) helps servers verify that email messages appearing to come from a particular domain are legitimate.

CB Insights has unveiled the Fintech 250 — a list of 250 of the top private fintech companies using technology to transform financial services. We are happy to announce that Coalition has made the list!

Ransomware events are dangerous. While it's best to avoid infections in the first place, the best way to recover from an attack is by having good backups.

We're excited to announce that Coalition raised $90 million in equity capital to fuel its mission to solve cyber risk, and support its rapid growth and global expansion.

What’s unique about cyber risk is that it is inherently global. The free tools, technology, and intelligence that protect all of our US-based policyholders are just as applicable to entities based outside the US. As of May 2020, we’ve launched in Canada!

While Coalition’s claims team sees a variety of cyber events on a daily basis, we understand that the quickest way to monetize the crime will always be the most common. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the crime of choice is funds transfer fraud by way of email intrusion.

The hallmark of a great (cyber) insurance policy is that it is broadly written to cover every imaginable loss scenario — yes, including those arising from a pandemic! — while clearly defining which scenarios are excluded from coverage.

Best practices for your team to stay productive and secure while working remotely

Coalition has acquired BinaryEdge, the leading security and threat intelligence provider. This acquisition enables us to improve our cyber insurance underwriting capabilities and provide free, real-time security monitoring to Coalition policyholders.

Ransomware continues to be one of the largest areas of cybersecurity claims for businesses and local governments. Over the past few weeks, we have witnessed a spike in ransomware infections and claims across Coalition insureds – and we project the number and frequency to continue to rise

Carrots never tasted so good. 🥕 Incentives are important, and we’re happy to announce our newest “carrot” for Coalition policyholders: the Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) Retention Reduction endorsement. That’s a mouthful, but it’s simple. We’re happy to reward good security practice, and MFA (or 2FA) is not just good security practice -- it’s great security practice. Multi-Factor Authentication is a security measure that adds a layer of protection to systems by requiring at least one add

If a corporation with the resources of Capital One can't protect their network, how can any other business be expected to? This is the harsh reality confronting small and mid-size business owners. A single mistake can be costly...even company-ending.

Over the past few months, we’ve been working with some of the world’s leading security training vendors in search of the best fit for our insureds. Our goal was simple: to find the most engaging security awareness training to help our insureds stay safe. Today we're excited to announce [https://www.thecoalition.com/announcements/coalition-partners-with-curricula-to-bring-effective-security-awareness-training-to-cyber-insurance-policyholders] a new partnership with security awareness training ve

Another day, another data breach. This past Friday Marriott International revealed that hackers had breached its Starwood reservation system as far back as 2014 and had stolen the personal data of up to 500 million guests. In the aftermath, Senator Ed Markey of Massachusetts described data breaches as "a black cloud hanging over the United States' bright economic horizon." So black that another Senator, Ron Wyden of Oregon, went on to declare that "until companies like Marriott feel the threat o

We're excited to announce that we’ve been named to this year’s CB Insights’ Fintech 250 [https://www.cbinsights.com/research/fintech-250-startups-most-promising/] list, a prestigious group of the most promising companies working on financial technology across the globe. We’re humbled to be included among thirty fintech unicorns (i.e., companies valued at over $1bn) and as one of only twenty other Insurance companies. Naturally, this wouldn’t have been possible without the support of our partne

This article originally appeared in Advisen FPN on October 23, 2018. From the hacker’s perspective, it’s the perfect crime. Cyber criminals use your organization’s computing power to mine cryptocurrency, without you even realizing you’ve been compromised. Maybe you notice that your organization's computers are running slower and more sluggishly than usual. Perhaps you receive an unusually high bill from one of your web services providers. There’s no data loss, no business interruption, none of

At Coalition, we’re always ready to catch up with customers, brokers, and everyone else interested in solving cyber risk. Really... try us [https://www.thecoalition.com/contact]. Over the next several weeks, at different events, you can find us in person around the United States sharing some of what we know and are learning from businesses far and wide. If you’ll be at one of these events, or are nearby and want to connect with someone from Coalition, let us know. Oh, and we are hiring [https:

Today, Coalition's mission to Solve Cyber Risk just got a big boost. 10,000 insurance agencies, all Big “I” members, will have access to Coalition's coverage and tools for the millions of businesses they serve. The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of America (IIABA or the Big “I”) was founded in 1896. But this influential organization keeps up with the ever-changing marketplace, and selected Coalition (founded 2017) as the solution for today's most dynamic challenge: cyber risk. Here

We're pleased to present the first in a series of practical security posts for our policyholders. Despite an explosion of cybersecurity buzzwords ranging from anomaly detection to next generation anti-virus, our claims data and experience reveal that simple security measures are often the most effective. This week we turn our focus to password security. Most computer systems rely on passwords, and all the cybersecurity in the world won't help you if someone knows or guesses your password. Advi

Today we announced [https://www.thecoalition.com/announcements/hackerone-joins-forces-with-coalition-to-bring-hacker-powered-security-to-cyber-insurance-policyholders-2018-feb-13] the HackerOne Response app in partnership with HackerOne [https://www.hackerone.com], another tool in the growing cyber risk management platform [https://www.thecoalition.com/platform] offered to all Coalition policyholders. This new app allows any organization to receive and respond to security vulnerabilities disco

Dark Reading, long one of the most widely-read cyber security news sites on the web, recently ran a story warning of the “10 Costs Your Cyber Insurance Policy May Not Cover [https://www.darkreading.com/risk/10-costs-your-cyber-insurance-policy-may-not-cover/d/d-id/1330888] .” We noticed this as well. Most cyber insurance policies simply do not cover many of the real-world risk exposures companies face as they embrace technology (and all of its consequences). This is one of the reasons why we fou

In this installment of our blog we ask the age-old insurance question: Is it covered? As you may have read in our last post [https://blog.thecoalition.com/cyber-meltdown-and-the-spectre-of-uninsurable-risk/] , two major security flaws were recently discovered in the processors that power nearly all of the world’s computers. The two techniques discovered to exploit these flaws, nicknamed Meltdown [https://meltdownattack.com/] and Spectre [https://spectreattack.com/], could allow hackers to steal

It’s been an awfully eventful start to the New Year. In case you’ve missed the news, two major security flaws have been discovered in the processors that power nearly all of the world’s computers. The two techniques discovered to exploit these flaws, nicknamed Meltdown [https://meltdownattack.com/] and Spectre [https://spectreattack.com/], could allow hackers to steal data and secrets from any vulnerable computer, including mobile devices. Because the flaws are with the computer processor itself

Out of service. Under repair. Broken. It’s a frustrating message to encounter. But far more frustrating is when something works, though not in the way we know it could. Without an obvious problem, there is no immediate fix or resolution. Instead, we carry on with the status quo and settle for the unremarkable. Welcome to insurance Insurance was introduced in the United States in the 1700s and, since that time, not much has changed. And for good reason. Insurance does work, just not in the way i

It may feel like an oxymoron, but innovation in insurance is possible. I’ve built my career on this belief as the leader of the Technology Practices at Aon and Crystal & Company. However, with few exceptions, “innovation” and “insurance” are rarely found in the same sentence. In an industry characterized by conservatism, discipline, and a natural aversion to risk, this belief has helped me to push the boundaries of what our industry is capable of. It has pushed me to ask, “how can we do this bet