14th Annual Cyber Liability Insurance ExecuSummit
March 11 & 12, 2026
Mohegan Sun Hotel & Convention Center, Uncasville, CT

2026 Opening Keynote:

The AI Blind Spot:

Why Your Cyber Application is Underwriting

the Wrong Risks and What to Do About It    

Ben Goodman
Founder & CEO
CyRisk

The cyber insurance market is currently facing a critical disconnect. Now that "AI-driven companies" are pretty much ubiquitous, our primary underwriting tool, the standard cyber application + ransomware supplement, is failing to capture the most critical exposures. A review of current market standard cyber applications reveals a dangerous reliance on traditional security controls, which, though still important for preventing ransomware, miss the critical new AI risks that are already defining the next generation of cyber losses. And our current cyber policies were never modeled to sustain these exposures, especially the potentially catastrophic risks that are increasingly concentrated as we descend the AI tech stack.

This session will focus on why even good security and privacy questions about online tracking technology and MFA are woefully insufficient for evaluating companies deploying autonomous agents or proprietary Large Language Models (LLMs).

Listen, Learn & Discuss:

•    AI’s Unique Aggregation, Systemic and SPoF Risks.
•   What makes catastrophic AI events more likely? (And we’re not talking about AI turning humans into paper clips here.)
•    A look at AI failures and the complex AI claims that will bleed across Cyber, Privacy, IP & Media Liability, Tech and

      Non-Tech E&O, Crime, Product Liability, EPLI, D&O, GL as well as other coverages and lines.
•    What insurers can do to avoid earning a heroic place in cyber insurance history as one of those valiant martyrs who

      ushered in the long-awaited hard market.

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.