13th Annual Cyber Liability Insurance ExecuSummit
March 12 & 13, 2025
Mohegan Sun Hotel & Convention Center, Uncasville, CT

2025 Opening Keynote:

The Looming AI Risk Storm:

Will AI Attacks Be the NextGen Ransomware Epidemic?

Ben Goodman
Founder & CEO
CyRisk

The second half of this decade will undoubtedly witness an unprecedented surge in the global expansion and impact of AI-based services, transforming industries and societies around the globe. This transformative wave carries inherent risks, and as with other technologies, AI is susceptible to cyberattacks. AI presents several significant challenges for the insurance industry, with massive data aggregation and highly concentrated supply chain risk, not least among them. Enterprise adoption of AI tools continues to rise rapidly, with over a million corporate users OpenAI's ChatGPT enterprise services and 70% of Fortune 500 companies utilizing Microsoft CoPilot.

Meanwhile, adversarial AI has become a real and present danger, particularly given the heightened risk posed by AI becoming a critical Single Point of Failure, making these systems highly desirable targets for attackers. The potential consequences of successful attacks are substantial, as they could disrupt critical operations, expose sensitive data, and cause widespread failures across interconnected systems, triggering a high number of high severity insurance claims.

Listen, Learn & Discuss:

•    What is adversarial AI and how real is the threat to policyholders and insurers?
•    What can we learn from recent cyberattacks against AI systems and LLMs?
•    How does the rapid deployment of AI innovations such as Agentic AI change the picture?
•    What can we learn from three AI system attack scenarios that trigger catastrophic failures?
•    What are some insurance-specific risk management strategies for AI?

About Ben Goodman:

Mr. Goodman is the Founder and CEO of CyRisk, a leading cyber risk and privacy data analytics platform purpose built for insurance companies and their policyholders around the world. With over 30 years of experience in information technology, technology strategy and risk management, Mr. Goodman is dedicated to strengthening the cyber resiliency and risk posture of organizations around the globe. Mr. Goodman is also Founder of 4A Security, a global provider of cyber security and privacy compliance consulting and incident response services.

Mr. Goodman has served as a member of the Casualty Actuarial Society’s Cyber Risk Task Force and is currently participating on the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Expert Panel on Catastrophic Cyber Risk. Mr. Goodman co-authored a paper entitled “Security Posture-Based Incident Forecasting” which was published in the Casualty Actuarial Society’s journal Variance. Mr. Goodman’s paper entitled “The Cyber Risk Ecosystem” won first prize for Applied Enterprise Risk Management at the Joint Casualty Actuarial Society, Canadian Institute of Actuaries and Society of Actuaries Enterprise Risk Management.

Mr. Goodman is a member of the faculty at Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business. He is a a member of the Casualty Actuarial Society’s Cyber Risk Task Force, and a member of the Security, Privacy and Safety IEEE/UL P2733 Standard for Clinical Internet of Things (IoT) Data and Device Interoperability with TIPPSS - Trust, Identity, Privacy, Protection, Safety, Security working groups. He served as cyber security advisor to the Steering Committee for the Greater Philadelphia Healthcare Innovation Taskforce. He is also a member of the Pace University, Seidenberg School of Computer Science Cybersecurity Advisory Board, a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Institute, and a member of the Philadelphia Chapter of Infragard. He has also served as an expert witness on legal matters concerning data breaches involving PHI, security, privacy and HIPAA compliance.

Mr. Goodman is a frequent speaker on the topics of cyber risk management and cybersecurity, and has been interviewed on NBC TV and quoted in numerous publications on issues regarding cybersecurity, compliance and risk transfer. He has published numerous articles, delivered keynote addresses and spoken at several conferences and on panel discussions. Mr. Goodman has taught undergraduate, graduate and executive level symposia on Cyber Security and Cyber Risk Management. He received his BA degree from Columbia College, Columbia University in New York.