Cyber Insurance Leaders

About Cyber Insurance Leaders

Cyber Insurance Leaders is dedicated to keeping cyber insurance and security professionals up to date on the latest developments, best practices, and thought leadership from leading voices in the industry. If you’re looking to hear and learn from cyber insurance and security experts, this show is for you. Each episode features an interview with an executive or thought leader, discussing topics like the cyber insurance industry as a whole, international growth, cyber claims, and more.

Publisher

Anthony Hess

Category

business · business · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

6 May 2022

Latest episode

18 Mar 2026

Latest episodes

3 of 62 episodes have a transcript.

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   18 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Ep. 61 - Are We Overpricing Cyber War? A Reality Check on Systemic Risk - with Tom Johansmeyer

   Hollywood sells cyber apocalypse. The data tells a different story. For years, cyber war has been framed as the systemic threat that could destabilize the insurance market overnight. But does the evidence support that assumption, or are we pricing a risk that hasn’t materialized at the scale we fear? In this episode, host Anthony Hess speaks with Tom Johansmeyer, Global Head of Index Classes at Price Forbes Re, and a doctoral researcher examining the intersection of insurance, economic secu...

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   22 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Ep. 60 – Defensible Truth in DFIR: Why Preserving Evidence Beats Quick Fixes – with Devon Ackerman

   In incident response, if you wipe systems first and ask questions later, you’re deleting the truth. In this episode, host Anthony Hess sits down with Devon Ackerman, Global Head of Digital Forensics and Incident Response at Cybereason, to unpack what serious DFIR looks like when your audience is regulators, legal counsel, and insurance carriers and brokers. A former FBI Supervisory Special Agent and Senior Forensic Examiner, Devon explains why his team approaches every matter as if it could ...

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   1 Dec 2025TRANSCRIPT

   Ep. 59 – Why Bedside Manner Defines Great Counsel in a Cyber Crisis – with Josh Mooney

   During incident response, what separates good from great counsel is bedside manner. In this episode, host Anthony Hess sits down with Josh Mooney, Partner and US Head of Cyber and Data Privacy at Kennedys Law, for a candid look at effective cyber response leadership. Josh explains why empathy and communication are as critical as legal precision when guiding clients through chaos. He also shares how US courts are reshaping ransomware incentives, why data governance failures attract OCR scrut...

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Ep. 61 - Are We Overpricing Cyber War? A Reality Check on Systemic Risk - with Tom Johansmeyer

Published 18 Mar 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] Hurricane Ian was north of $40 billion, not an industry -wide -insured -loss basis. So what I said out to study was how the insurance industry's hyperbolicization of cyber -war risk creates an economic security problem by impeding the flow of capital to the cyber insurance market. So here's the deal. […]

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Apple Podcasts (US)

4.5 / 5

6 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 57 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

80

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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