Beazley CEO warns of more big brand cyber attacks in 2026
Beazley CEO Adrian Cox has warned that 2026 could be the year a major global brand suffers lasting damage, or even fails, following a severe cyber outage.
Speaking at the insurer’s Navigating Risk in 2026: A World in Flux event on Wednesday evening (10 December), Cox said a series of high-profile cyber incidents in 2025 has raised the likelihood of a
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