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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Understanding Cyber Exposure in an Increasingly Connected World
September 29, 2026

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One big thing: October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, a time for organizations to focus on understanding and managing cyber risks. As cyber exposure has become increasingly interconnected, organizations need greater visibility into vulnerabilities, financial exposure and resilience.

We help clients make better cyber risk decisions by understanding where risk is concentrated, assessing potential business impacts and prioritizing actions to strengthen resilience.

Here are our latest cyber insights:

  • Cyber exposure may be more concentrated than organizations realize: Cyber risk extends beyond individual systems and can accumulate across operations, supply chains, technologies and interconnected business relationships. Identifying these concentrations can help organizations better understand potential vulnerabilities and business impacts. See our insights article.
     
  • A holistic approach strengthens resilience: Effective cyber risk management requires organizations to assess, analyze, mitigate, transfer and recover from cyber risks. Combining analytics, market insight and cyber experience can help organizations better understand their risk posture and prioritize actions that support resilience. Read more here.
     
  • Better visibility supports better decisions: As cyber exposures continue to evolve, organizations need clearer insight into vulnerabilities, financial exposure and resilience. These insights can support more informed risk transfer decisions, stronger engagement with insurers and more effective risk management strategies.

Learn more: Brent Rieth, Global Cyber Leader, and Ariel Weintraub, Global Chief Information Security Officer, discuss today's evolving cyber risk landscape and how organizations can better understand their exposure, strengthen resilience and make more informed risk decisions. Listen here.

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