RHS 109 - How to Sell More Cyber Insurance with Pat Costello

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Speaker 6 Today, we have a tremendous episode for you. Conversation with Pat Costello, co-founder and CEO of Evolve MGA, one of the most comprehensive cyber specialist carriers in our industry.

Speaker 6 And Pat is doing some really interesting things. And what I love about Evolve MGA is that they are trying to educate and bring cyber cyber to the agency force, right?

Speaker 6 I mean, too many of us are not selling enough cyber. I get it.
It's not an easy sell. It's tough to lead with cyber.
Oftentimes, our commercial clients are looking at cyber as a luxury.

Speaker 6 And I've said it before, and I'll probably end up saying it a thousand times, but in the very near future, cyber could be a more important coverage than general liability in protecting

Speaker 6 particularly small business, but really all business. And I think we're doing our clients a disservice by not pushing cyber harder.

Speaker 6 And what I like about Evolve MGA is that they are working to create a comprehensive program, but also

Speaker 6 educate agents and educate consumers on why cyber is important. And Pat's just a good guy, very dynamic.
Enjoyed this conversation. Think you're going to get a lot out of it.

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Speaker 5 Yo, dude.

Speaker 5 Hi. What's up, man? How are you? I'm good.

Speaker 5 Yeah. Just,

Speaker 5 you know, trying to get stuff done. Another day in the neighborhood here.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Are you in upstate New York right now? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We, uh,

Speaker 5 we,

Speaker 5 so the agency is based here. This is where I live.
Um, it's actually where I grew up to. And, um,

Speaker 5 I, my,

Speaker 5 I have teammates across the country and the world, which is the new, the new thing for, for, I think probably for a company like yours, that's not necessarily unique, but for a lot of brokers and agencies in particular.

Speaker 5 You know, I tell people like, oh, you know, my producer is in Chicago and I have a client success person who's down in Florida and I have a VA in the Philippines. I'm like,

Speaker 5 what?

Speaker 5 Yes, that is totally unique. You know, it's just, it's an interesting, it's an interesting thing.

Speaker 5 Finding the right people to operate in that kind of ecosystem is definitely interesting. Totally.

Speaker 5 And I will say it was a huge learning experience with COVID happening and learning how to manage a remote culture. Yep.

Speaker 5 and make sure people are happy, motivated, performing, you know, all that stuff was

Speaker 5 a learning experience. So I, and I think we're better off for it now that we're kind of coming out of it.
So,

Speaker 5 yeah, man, we definitely went through some interesting experiences. I think that it's been, and I'm interested in your take.
For me,

Speaker 5 you know, we were always remote, right? Like, I think I would love to have a home base someday.

Speaker 5 You know, we have a co-working space that kind of is our home base, but I would love to have a place where like, oh, you know, bye, honey. I'm going to the office.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 Like that kind of thing. Like that would be nice to have that kind of separation.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Have just a place where all our mail goes instead of the floor of my basement office. And,

Speaker 5 you know, I think that would be nice. At the same time,

Speaker 5 you know, we haven't had to deal with, well, how do we judge performance in a remote work environment? Cause we never had an in-person work environment.

Speaker 5 Those aren't even questions. Like, it's just, we have our way of judging performance and talking through things and we use the eos system um i don't know if you're familiar with entrepreneurs

Speaker 5 system so so we use eos and um

Speaker 5 you know when you have a system for tracking performance and you stick to it

Speaker 5 it's not necessarily any more difficult with remote employees um

Speaker 5 But I do think if you have a standardized in-person culture to go remote is probably a huge shock.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I think there's two areas where I'm like,

Speaker 5 I think having people in an office environment are huge. One is like sales motivation.
And,

Speaker 5 you know, if you have, you know, a few sales folks, I love having them together in the same room to kind of motivate each other and feel the energy, feel the vibes.

Speaker 5 And we've seen our best sales folks have been in rooms with other sales folks.

Speaker 5 that have been on islands have been a little bit slower and there's anomalies but i think you know if i had my preference i'd like to have the sales folks on like a sales floor for for us underwriting as well a lot of times it's really advantageous to have underwriters that are kind of chatting about a risk to make sure they're fully understanding comprehending all the exposures associated um

Speaker 5 but just general like

Speaker 5 i think employee happiness and

Speaker 5 uh bonding

Speaker 5 and excitement about the workplace and what we're doing as a team and connecting with individuals outside of the, you know, normal, you know, I need to get this quote done.

Speaker 5 I need to, you know, talk to this person about this risk. I need to do that.
It's, you know, it's the whole personal side of things where it's like, oh, like, how was your day? What's going on?

Speaker 5 What are you doing for dinner? What are you doing for lunch? And that personal side of things, I just think makes it so much more fun. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Which is kind of the culture that we're trying to cultivate. I agree with that.
I would,

Speaker 5 I would prefer in person, you know, the, I, I have, but I struggle with too,

Speaker 5 you know, and this is nothing against anyone who listens to this who lives in Albany, but, you know, this isn't like a bastion of insurance talent here.

Speaker 5 Not that there aren't incredibly talented people, but this isn't like a place where, one, it's not a huge market to begin with. Two, a lot of the...

Speaker 5 all the colleges are geared more towards engineering. Just we have RPI, we have union,

Speaker 5 our, everything is kind of evolved around that. I mean, University of Albany is a liberal arts college, but

Speaker 5 most people who go to the

Speaker 5 University of Albany do not stay here in Albany. They leave.
That's a problem that we have. So it's not like

Speaker 5 it's difficult to find people who are motivated to come in and work in an insurance agency,

Speaker 5 which, you know, even though

Speaker 5 There are most days it's hard for us to even consider ourselves that.

Speaker 5 It is, you know, it still kind of is what it is you still have to have the licensing and then in this spate like right here like locally like it's it's been it was a huge challenge and it wasn't until i started opening up our search to the to the basically the entire country that we started to find people who really fit our culture believed in what we were doing like it became you know we got to really pick so I go back and forth on it.

Speaker 5 Like there's part of me that's like, I don't care where you live. If you're working hard, if you believe, you show up to the meetings, you do your work.
I love it.

Speaker 5 The other part of it is like, I would love to bump into everyone every day and know like what they're up to.

Speaker 5 Cause I do kind of like, I like the people that are on our team and we just don't get to see each other that much, you know? Yeah, yeah,

Speaker 5 totally.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's, it's, we, with our HQ here in San Fell, we've opened it back up and we have, you know, around 20 people kind of floating around here.

Speaker 5 And just, it's been a total change because I was so used to work working on my own. No interruptions, no distractions, no people coming to ask me questions.

Speaker 5 And so now I'm back and now we're, now we're fully up and running and it's like buzzing buzzing downstairs. Like it's exciting.
It's fun.

Speaker 5 But I'm totally like, I don't have the solitude that I had to just focus on a project. So that's really interesting, the transition there.
But

Speaker 5 if I had to choose between the two, I would just love to have, you know,

Speaker 5 full-on office environment going.

Speaker 5 And then, you know, strategic days where now it's because now it's like, like, I love the home office setup that you have, like just what I can see from my screen behind you.

Speaker 5 That's kind of what I've set up at my home office. Yeah.
And it's like, I spent all of COVID like dialing the perfect home office.

Speaker 5 And so now I'm like,

Speaker 5 now I'm like torn between the two. So having a couple of days here there to work from home, I think is a good thing.

Speaker 5 There's definitely part of me that like, we will eventually get an office at some point, probably in the next 12 months at some point. And

Speaker 5 there's part of me that's like, this space is so highly functional, right? Like, I have video studio.

Speaker 5 I can can do a podcast i can do videos right here um i have a creative computer which you can't see so like i have a two screen window set up here for like insurance and business specific stuff and then i can swivel to my right 90 degrees and here's my

Speaker 5 you know my we'll call a creative computer like mac it's my mac it's got the uh you know where i do all the videos where i do all the podcasts like any of that kind of stuff and then if something's going on in this computer i have another one right here and then i got all the stuff i'm like this is so functional Like, I can be 150% functional here, and there's no way if we go to an office that I can have this same setup, like, it just won't happen.

Speaker 5 It's the command center, yeah, yeah, that's what it is, yeah. So

Speaker 5 it, um, I've just basically said when we go to an office, I'm not changing anything here, I'm just gonna get new stuff. I'll just get new stuff for the office.

Speaker 5 Like, this is staying exactly the way that it is. Yeah, yeah, I love it.
I have the same mindset, yeah.

Speaker 5 So, you know, I didn't, uh, as much as this is interesting, I didn't bring you on here to shoot shit about home, you know, remote versus versus home.

Speaker 5 You know, I'm interested in what you're doing.

Speaker 5 I'm interested in your backstory. I know you've, you've done a lot of podcasts and people have followed you.
Maybe there's some people who haven't heard your story.

Speaker 5 So maybe just if you could give us the 10 cent tour on getting on

Speaker 5 founding Evolve and just Involve in general. I mean, obviously, I'll do a little intro so they'll know kind of the basics, but I just want to catch people up so we can get to some more fun stuff.

Speaker 5 Absolutely. If we're talking about my story and the founding of Evolve, I think it kind of

Speaker 5 goes back to

Speaker 5 really growing up because my brother and I were fourth generation into the insurance industry. So we grew up working for a dad who was a retail agent in Northern California.

Speaker 5 He owned his own agency and we would go in and, you know, work for him literally in high school, kind of just doing like administrative tasks.

Speaker 5 And in college, we ended up getting our PNC licenses, doing a little bit of selling. My brother's 18 months younger, and he's who co-founded Evolve with me.

Speaker 5 But

Speaker 5 in college, we also

Speaker 5 were able to intern at Lloyds of London for a Lloyds wholesale broker called Safe Online, which was really, really unique experience.

Speaker 5 For all the agents that are listening, totally recommend going and checking out Lloyds of London when you get the chance. It was really kind of the birthplace of insurance.

Speaker 5 A lot of history there, very traditional environment, very fun, fun environment.

Speaker 5 And so we interned there for a summer. And coming out of college, my first job was as an underwriter for ACE in San Francisco in the professional liability department.

Speaker 5 My brother's first job was working for that same Lloyds wholesaler that we interned with.

Speaker 5 So we were kind of going down our respective paths. And I think both of us, we were always very entrepreneurial.
We were always very independent.

Speaker 5 I think in my personal experience on the carrier side of things, I was in working for a huge company and I didn't see a lot of ways where I could control my own destiny.

Speaker 5 I didn't see there wasn't a ton of role models that I had access to that was like, I want to be like that.

Speaker 5 You know, I was working hard and I, you know,

Speaker 5 didn't see a lot of people noticing what I was doing and the potential to move up and grow and come into my own wasn't necessarily available.

Speaker 5 And so my brother and I started kind of looking at what's the next thing we're going to do.

Speaker 5 And because he was kind of feeling similar ways in a much smaller organization where he was kind of, you know, ready to move on. And so we started pitching different ideas to mentors.

Speaker 5 And we had a mentor that, you know, helped us kind of plan out and recommend the business model that we have today,

Speaker 5 which is Evolve MGA. And so Evolve is a cyber insurance specialist.

Speaker 5 At the moment, all we do is cyber insurance. We are a market for retail insurance brokers.

Speaker 5 So if there is an insurance broker that wants to get a cyber quote, we have one of the most comprehensive cyber policies that currently exists, which is a big statement to say right now, because the cyber market is getting harder and harder.

Speaker 5 Claims are going up, particularly ransomware.

Speaker 5 And it is getting tougher and tougher for folks to get quality cyber coverage.

Speaker 5 And from a retail broker perspective, one of the biggest issues that we see is understanding the exposures and then also understanding the quality coverage and having those conversations with your clients.

Speaker 5 So we've done everything we can to make it as simple as possible for a broker to show their client that they have tremendous exposure, which they do.

Speaker 5 right, which they, it's, it's, should be explicitly clear at this point. But if there is any issues issues with that,

Speaker 5 we're really focused on that education. So, um, showing someone in a particular industry why they have tremendous cyber exposure with claims examples.
Um,

Speaker 5 and then I think our quote proposals are really well laid out to really explain the exposure, explain the coverage. And I know our team is always there to answer any questions.

Speaker 5 But, Ryan, we've gone so far down the education rabbit hole that our team, like our production underwriting team, has in a given year, will do over 2,000 educational face-to-face interactions, breaking down exposure, talking about a particular industry and their exposure, breaking down coverage, et cetera, breaking down the state of the market.

Speaker 5 So on top of that, in November, we're going to be hosting our second cyber sales academy. which is going to be super cool.

Speaker 5 We have Frank Abignale from the movie Cast Me If You Can coming to speak, who a lot of people know him for check fraud, but he also specializes in cybersecurity,

Speaker 5 wire transfer fraud, social engineering, stuff like that, which is

Speaker 5 the second most common claim we see behind ransomware. So he's going to be there.
We're going to be doing an event at the Cowboys Stadium. And so it's Dallas, center of the country.

Speaker 5 So we're going to have people come in from both sides. And so we're planning for about 100 agents.
So we're about to release that. But education is huge, comprehensive cover is huge.

Speaker 5 And then we're always working on how we can better our service.

Speaker 5 So that's kind of a summary breakdown of how we started and what we're doing today. It's been about six years since we were founded.

Speaker 5 Why do you think that agents still sell cyber like it's a luxury and not like it's a necessity?

Speaker 5 I think the insurance industry and the way it's set up with renewals breeds an attitude of complacency for,

Speaker 5 along with the fact that there's a pretty big age gap in the insurance industry.

Speaker 5 So you have these producers that have built these books over a number of years and they have renewal income that's coming in at a 90 or 90% rate or higher.

Speaker 5 Not a ton of motivation to learn about a new complex product that isn't a high revenue producing line of business,

Speaker 5 especially a product that's changing all the time. It's evolving.

Speaker 5 So I just think the motivation isn't always top of mind, but I think the fact that claims are coming in, the market's getting hard, and clients are now asking about this all the time, I think that's going to be changing.

Speaker 5 I also will say it's a complex product. I mean, you say cyber insurance,

Speaker 5 people can confuse it with tech EO.

Speaker 5 They might think about the internet. They might think about

Speaker 5 computers. But if I were to break cyber insurance down to one sentence, cyber insurance is coverage for the costs associated with hacking attacks, data breaches, and system failures.

Speaker 5 Those are the three major triggers that I want people to remember. So if you can break it down to one sentence, it makes it a lot easier to communicate to your clients.

Speaker 5 And that's, that's one of the big purposes of the Sales Academy. And simplification, I think, is really key to make sure.
clients truly understand why they need this. Yeah.
It's funny.

Speaker 5 I think a lot of times people still think like, oh, I I don't take credit. I got people like, I don't take credit cards, so I don't need cyber insurance.

Speaker 5 It's like, that was like cyber insurance in 2005. That's not, that's not even close to what we're talking about today anymore.
And the fact that,

Speaker 5 so, so cross-selling cyber insurance. Now, again, we're still getting started as an agency.
So it's not like I can talk in like thousands when we talk about volume, but we cyber insurance is a huge.

Speaker 5 part of our cross-sell process. And we know that a lot of times at the initial point of sale, you're not going to get that cyber purchase.

Speaker 5 And where I i think a lot of agents fall down is because at the immediate sale when you're selling the bop or the comp or maybe the commercial auto whatever because maybe cyber feels like an additional policy at that time oftentimes you get a well you know let me think about it and then they never get back around to it so we've actually built three touch points in through the course of the year post post initial sale if they don't purchase a cyber policy at the point of contact to retouch on what those are and you know i i i firmly believe that we could be looking at, and I know I don't know of any legislation that's happening, maybe you do, but I do think in the next five to 10 years, we could look at something where cyber liability becomes a mandated coverage, much like having workers' comp or personal auto, only because

Speaker 5 it is absolutely insane what's happening out there. And if, and if agents are unaware of what's happening, then just do a simple Google search.
I mean, you can't, it is like every single day.

Speaker 5 I had a guy call me, and I don't know if I've told this story on the podcast before or not, but I had a guy call me because I've done a lot of cyber videos. He said, Hey, man, I hope you can help me.

Speaker 5 I'm having a really tough time. I said, Well, what's up? He said, Well, I just said a cyber incident put me out of business, and I'm hoping you could help me.

Speaker 5 I was like, Well, I'm not really sure. This would have been a good call before the claim happened, uh, before the incident.
But so he said, Um, you know, I have a cyber policy, and that policy covered

Speaker 5 tearing tearing down so basically he had a um uh

Speaker 5 ransomware attack except when they left the system they just destroyed the system as they were leaving the system so it wasn't just like oh you're unlocked they just absolutely obliterated everything on the way out there's all kinds of like I don't know what you call them, but there's all kinds of like hooks and malware things like embedded in this.

Speaker 5 And I don't mean destroyed it like they tore it apart. I mean, like, there's just all kinds of crap that they left, like keystroke finders and stuff that were stuck in the system.

Speaker 5 So they had to get rid of everything. And that cost about $600,000, which the company, which the carrier that he had, actually, the cyber company paid for it.

Speaker 5 So, okay, great. You know, you'd think.
I'm listening to him going, okay, this sounds good. He's up and running.
Two months later, he's got all his equipment back.

Speaker 5 Like, yes, he lost some data, but he was able to recoup some of it cleanly. And he goes, but I said, well, what happened, man?

Speaker 5 And he said, my two biggest clients canceled their contracts on me for breach of contract because there's no way that they could have stayed with me post a cyber claim because if we had had another one, they would have all been fired by their basically, he placed nurses was his business.

Speaker 5 Okay. And uh,

Speaker 5 and

Speaker 5 so I said, Well, send me your policy because I know that reputation and so there's there's certain hooks on the end of policies, which which actually cover you for lost clients or lost business because of reputational hits after a cyber claim.

Speaker 5 And he sent it to me, and sure shit, they didn't, it didn't have that, right so i i felt bad i actually

Speaker 5 probably lied to him a little because i didn't want to like

Speaker 5 completely i just said look man there there are some endorsements not every policy has them unfortunately you don't have them um there's not a whole lot you can do because you had this policy for two years and it just didn't have that and

Speaker 5 it's it's like that level of detail in cyber policies could have changed that guy's life you know what i mean like if someone if his if his broker or wherever he bought it i we didn't get into that i felt bad i thought thought I was going to start crying.

Speaker 5 You know, if someone had said, hey, look, you know,

Speaker 5 there are endorsements that you can add to the end of this policy, which could at least maybe help with some of the financial hit of losing major clients because of reputation post-claim.

Speaker 5 He just didn't have those things and now he went out of business.

Speaker 5 Ryan, I think the example that you brought up is phenomenal because you are touching on a few first party coverage sections that a lot lot of carriers or cyber markets do not pick up.

Speaker 5 So the first one you mentioned is system damage and data restoration.

Speaker 5 That's so cyber policies to take a step back are third-party coverage and first party coverage.

Speaker 5 Third party is typically based around someone making a claim against the insured for losing their information.

Speaker 5 some sort of liability coverage. First party coverage is for

Speaker 5 the costs that the insured is directly responsible for paying out based on someone hacking them. So their system goes down.
They need business interruption coverage, right?

Speaker 5 They need system damage coverage.

Speaker 5 If someone does exactly what you mentioned, where, you know, they can't use their system anymore and they need, they might need, for example, in the insurance world, if someone hacks, you know, one of our agencies, they might need all the client information recreated because maybe that information is deleted or compromised or encrypted.

Speaker 5 And then beyond that,

Speaker 5 the biggest areas where we see claims are crime, cyber crime. So, ransomware, those extortion payments, social engineering.

Speaker 5 And so, those are the areas where cyber policies are getting more and more limited.

Speaker 5 So, for all the agents out there, if you're offering a cyber policy, you want to make sure you have strong, comprehensive, first-party cyber coverage. And to throw a couple stats at you, I mean,

Speaker 5 ransomware attacks during the pandemic increased by 800%.

Speaker 5 The scary thing about ransomware attacks. Go ahead.
Go ahead.

Speaker 5 It's just insane. It's so much.
It's crazy. It's crazy.

Speaker 5 The scary thing about ransomware attacks is most people don't report them.

Speaker 5 Because another thing that you mentioned is your insured lost vendor relationships because there's a negative connotation with businesses getting hacked and that being out in the news.

Speaker 5 When a lot of times that company has done everything they can from a cybersecurity standpoint, there's no cybersecurity cybersecurity that is 100 effective so it's it's kind of sad to see that there's this huge negative connotation in the public for and obviously you know you want to make sure you're as secure as possible and some people are more responsible than others but a lot of times there's just no control there but the fbi

Speaker 5 gets

Speaker 5 um about 4 000 complaints per day about businesses getting hit by ransomware attacks. 4,000.

Speaker 5 The scary thing is the majority of people don't report them because they don't want to have that negative connotation with their vendors one thing to be clear on this guy was not my insured he had just called me he would have had that he would have had that coverage if he was my insured but no he did not uh he was the he just he just called me because he found me on youtube but uh um just want to but i did have an insured I did have an insured have another claim.

Speaker 5 And this is just another example because

Speaker 5 I think a lot of agents, and this isn't a knock, like this is a coverage that in general is relatively new. Two, that as an industry, we don't spend enough time on.

Speaker 5 Three, I think the way it was initially taught was so wonky that it was like impossible to understand, right?

Speaker 5 You just, when this first hit, what, about a decade ago, like maybe 10, about 10 years ago, right?

Speaker 5 It really started to become, I mean, it existed before that, but it started to become a coverage that people were talking about. And it just was like.
I mean, insurance is boring enough.

Speaker 5 And then the people who were teaching cyber, like, it was almost like they were purposefully making it more boring. And it was just very tough to get your head around.

Speaker 5 So, um, I think people struggle with selling it for a lot of those reasons. I think that's changing.
I think you guys are a big part of it.

Speaker 5 And just the you know, you got the podcast, you do a lot of podcasts, you have a lot of content, you got to share a lot, you make it fun. Um, it's just more inviting, which is a very good thing.

Speaker 5 Um, but that being said, I still feel like a lot of agents just don't understand how this can work. So, I'll give that one example.

Speaker 5 A claim

Speaker 5 that we thankfully avoided, but was very nearly a claim was actually we had a wire fraud incident so i have a furniture store that i insure uh someone emailed one of his uh commercial clients with an invoice that said hey you owe us fifty thousand dollars can you pay the invoice guy doesn't even look at it sees who it's from forwards it on to his whoever uh that that that person gets it pays the invoice no big deal okay

Speaker 5 Two days later, he emails my client, goes, hey, man, you know, I just got an invoice for you and I didn't really think about it at the time. We paid it, but like, what was that for? What did we buy?

Speaker 5 And he's like, you don't know. You don't owe us any.
We didn't send you an invoice.

Speaker 5 So this is the thing, the tightly, the closely related, you know, email that if you actually look at the thing is different. And then the email looked the same.

Speaker 5 The signature was very close in terms of, you know, hey, my client, president or whatever. And then one, it's kind of weird.
It's coming from the president. So maybe that should have been a key.

Speaker 5 but he didn't he didn't check it out he's just going through his day fast for his email on she wires this money for this payment. And thankfully, they were able to get all $50,000 back.

Speaker 5 So the bank transfer hadn't cleared all the way because it was international.

Speaker 5 Like they didn't know, you know, and they were able to get the 50,000 back and they didn't, they didn't end up putting a claim in note and there was no loss. He got all the money back.
That's great.

Speaker 5 But that easily, that money easily could have gone off into nowhere. And if that guy comes back and goes, hey, man, I need that 50,000 bucks, then that's a cyber.

Speaker 5 I mean, that's social engineering, right? I mean, am I describing a social engineering claim?

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Speaker 5 You're describing it exactly as what it is. Social engineering is the most common claim we see behind ransomware.
We have started to refer to it as wire transfer fraud because the acronym is WTF,

Speaker 5 right? That's exactly what someone would be thinking when they transfer money out. And that's something that's happened to the biggest companies in the world, the Facebooks, the Apples,

Speaker 5 it's huge in real estate, huge in law firms right now. But it's

Speaker 5 ransomware and wire transfer fraud are industry agnostic, right? If you have an email address and a bank account,

Speaker 5 you can be victim of one of those hacking attacks.

Speaker 5 So that's why I say, I mean, those are, those are great claims examples to bring up to any client, because if you're a legitimate business, you're going to have an email address and a bank account.

Speaker 5 And you want to make sure those are protected. So I think that when you bring up or when

Speaker 5 brokers are looking for examples, I think that's a great place to start. But I also think brokers need to know that

Speaker 5 A lot of times small to medium-sized businesses assume that they are not going to be victims of hacking attacks, that

Speaker 5 the hackers are only targeted the huge businesses of the world because that's what we see in the news, right?

Speaker 5 We always see when a major company has a hacking attack occur, but we don't see a lot of times are the small to mid-sized businesses when the truth is those are the low-hanging fruit because they usually don't have the cybersecurity in place that they probably should.

Speaker 5 And they're much more willing to pay a ransom just to get their systems back online.

Speaker 5 So it's something that I think folks should think about if they you know initially believe that only big businesses get hacked yeah so anyone that's listening you can steal those two examples but uh because stories sell right but but i think we need to find we need to find our own hopefully um we can find them and they're not our clients we can you know just read the trade journals you find tons of examples and just use those examples because i i said this before i said this maybe about a year ago during the pandemic when all the stats were coming about out about how hard everyone was getting hit with these and i actually read read that there were a couple homeowners' insurance companies that were thinking about adding personal cyber liability because these guys are now.

Speaker 5 I say these guys, I'm assuming they're all disgusting men sitting in basements somewhere. You know what I mean? They're doing all this hacking.
I don't know.

Speaker 5 That's just a visual I have, but like eating Doritos and like regular Coca-Cola, like these, you know, awful humans.

Speaker 5 And,

Speaker 5 and, and, and they're pinging like

Speaker 5 home routers and then using those as

Speaker 5 like proxies to then blast out all this malicious content. And that can, you know, if they can track it back to your home router, you can be brought in a lot.

Speaker 5 You know, there's this, all this crazy stuff. And I said, like, I just put out a couple of messages or did a V or something.

Speaker 5 I just was like, cyber, there's a very realistic possibility that in the near future,

Speaker 5 cyber liability is as or more important than general liability.

Speaker 5 Like if I had to think about rogue, you know, it's a cyber is a million times larger exposure than a slip, trip, and fall, third-party bodily injury or property damage.

Speaker 5 I mean, that's general liability, right? And a stroke.

Speaker 5 Like, is there, is it, is it more likely that someone slips and falls on a property that I'm responsible for, or someone hacks into my system and steals their information or uses my system from ransomware or whatever?

Speaker 5 Like, it's just, but yeah, we won't, we don't think about it that way. We think, oh, you know, I own a small agency, so I don't need it.
You know, I own a small business.

Speaker 5 And it just couldn't be farther from the truth. Yeah.
Well, Ryan, as

Speaker 5 everything gets more connected to the internet, and as people start using technology more, there's more potential for things to get hacked.

Speaker 5 If something is connected to the internet, it has the potential to be hacked. And so everything that we are doing on a day-to-day basis is getting more and more technology driven.

Speaker 5 So I don't think there is a more crucial coverage for the 21st century than cyber insurance.

Speaker 5 So I think it's something that really, really needs to be top of mind.

Speaker 5 And yeah, I mean, if there's any agents out there that have any questions on it, like we're, we have the luxury of being a specialist where we can go really deep on this, not only in our coverage, but all the coverage that's floating out there in the market, what's really, you know, working from a broker standpoint in terms of making sure this hits.

Speaker 5 Like you mentioned, claims examples. We have.

Speaker 5 like 75 industries, all the major industries like laid out of, you know, their five major exposures in the claims examples associated with that industry.

Speaker 5 So, for example, someone needs claims examples on restaurants or manufacturers or contractors,

Speaker 5 lawyers. We have claims examples aggregated.
So,

Speaker 5 the other thing that I really like that helps identify exposure is dark web scanning.

Speaker 5 Most people don't realize that they have probably over 100 accounts that they are their information is in

Speaker 5 when you talk about being a member of linkedin of facebook of instagram of you know your gym of your bank account right you have all these credentials and what you don't realize is the majority of these companies have had some sort of data breach at some point right and it's likely that your email address and password are associated with that data breach so on the first page of all of our co-proposals is an automatic dark web scan that we do for everybody associated with their domain name.

Speaker 5 And it shows you the credentials that are floating out there on the dark web right now that are being bought and sold. And if you haven't changed your password,

Speaker 5 some hacker out there, someone on the dark web could buy your information and try to log into Wells Fargo or whatever it is. So the dark web is a scary place.

Speaker 5 the the fact that people aren't actively changing their password using password managers practicing quality cyber hygiene that's just got to be you know multi-factor authentication.

Speaker 5 That's just got to be part of the normal day-to-day to make sure you're secure.

Speaker 5 And we have, you know, a list of things that folks can do to secure their home office to make sure they're taking the right cybersecurity steps. In fact, Brian, we have

Speaker 5 six free services, cybersecurity services that we provide to all of our insureds. for free if they want access to them for proactive cybersecurity.

Speaker 5 Which password manager do you recommend? Like LastPass or? LastPass is my go-to. Yeah.
Yeah. I know.
I gotta, I gotta get on the LastPass train. I

Speaker 5 logging in and out of systems is the biggest, it's like, that is like one of those nightmare things that we all deal with. I mean, carriers are the worst because they make you change your password.

Speaker 5 Like some of them, it's every two days, some of them it's never. And you're just like, oh my God, I can't.
I have no more iterations and I don't have the brain cycles to remember.

Speaker 5 And then everyone just goes, LastPass. And I'm like, God, I just got to sign up for it.
But

Speaker 5 so, so you had said before um that cyber insurance is

Speaker 5 the only product that you offer at this time

Speaker 5 what does that mean

Speaker 5 so i think that we've set up a really great network of uh insurance agents across the us

Speaker 5 we've gone really really deep when it comes to cyber

Speaker 5 And I think if we can find another product that is a specialty quality product that our agents would, that would add value to our agents and would add value to their insureds.

Speaker 5 Like a tech ENO or something like that?

Speaker 5 Could be tech ENO, could be DNO, could be ENO, could be, you know, I know there's a really big need right now for brokers that are working in the cannabis space because there's very few markets

Speaker 5 and there's lots of lines that could be associated with that. So we are actively exploring what could be the next product that would add value.

Speaker 5 And I think we would only move on it if we felt it was, you know, a great product that was comprehensive and that we know our distribution network.

Speaker 5 Cause we, I think we work with about 2,000 insurance agencies across the UF, about 2,000 offices.

Speaker 5 So if it paired well with cyber and it was something that, you know, worked within our business model to have our folks be able to communicate and explain and

Speaker 5 show our brokers why it's relevant, then I think that's something that we would want to bring on as our technology grill. One of the things that I think is a huge opportunity is tech E ⁇ O.

Speaker 5 And the reason I think it's an opportunity, not necessarily for you guys, but just in general, is because it's very, it has a very narrow bandwidth in what's considered tech E ⁇ O today.

Speaker 5 And I feel like that bandwidth is,

Speaker 5 I think it's just, I think the carriers that are writing it,

Speaker 5 I think they're just a little behind in updating what a technology-related company is. Like, you know, when you look at some of the exposure, even look at some of the exposures that Rogue has, right?

Speaker 5 Let's take my own business. We have a lot of technology-related errors, errors and

Speaker 5 omissions issues that we could have as we build our own tech and we build our own connections into different systems and what could happen there.

Speaker 5 You know, right now it's like, do you develop an app? Yes. Okay, techie, you know.
What about websites that develop functionality on those sites that are proprietary to their business?

Speaker 5 It's not actually an app that they're selling, but it's proprietary tech that is delivering a service inside a web portal or form or whatever.

Speaker 5 Like, how does that, you know, you really have to search to find someone who will classify that inside of a tech E ⁇ O. But when you dial into the policy forms, standard E ⁇ O isn't covering that.

Speaker 5 And it's certainly not covered under a BOP. So like maybe media liability, but that's a stretch.

Speaker 5 I mean, that's a big stretch to think that media liability is going to cover that so i feel like there's a big gap in that market um just because it i think it was originally for like app developers you know what i mean like that's really what it is is like they're thinking like high functionality technology or technology that's running maybe a manufacturing plant maybe like something that's driving it through a system but there's to me there's a much broader spectrum of tech

Speaker 5 exposures that are seeping into businesses because

Speaker 5 today everyone is bolting on their, I shouldn't say everyone, a lot of businesses are bolting on their own technology solutions and products that maybe they're not selling to the market, but are but are highly,

Speaker 5 but are being used to drive their business, maybe even conjunction with some off the rack stuff. And that technology that you're building and implementing and delivering services through,

Speaker 5 that's a big gap, I believe, in the current structure of

Speaker 5 BOP and errors and omissions. If you don't have that tech terminology built in, so,

Speaker 5 you know, I don't say that's probably way more detailed than anyone really cares about. But, you know, this is just something that I've seen with some of our clients is: I'm like, how do I cover this?

Speaker 5 feature of their product delivery, right? They have this, that's pretty standard.

Speaker 5 This is pretty standard, but what about this piece right here in the middle that connects these two things and does this that they built?

Speaker 5 Ah, you know, well,

Speaker 5 it's the future because there's so many business functions that are reliant on technology. And if you have someone that makes a mistake in creating that, um,

Speaker 5 it's it could be you know massively uh costly to that business. So there's no doubt it's an option for the future.

Speaker 5 And I also would like love to just clarify, like, because people always confuse cyber and tech ENO. Yep.

Speaker 5 The reason why we standalone cyber does not include tech ENO is because there's a double trigger. So, for example,

Speaker 5 if I'm a hacker and I'm looking to get into somebody's business, excuse me,

Speaker 5 I could potentially exploit an error that a programmer made in

Speaker 5 putting that software or that program together. So, therefore, it could trigger a tech ENO policy, could trigger a cyber policy.
So that's why we don't include Tech ENO in our form.

Speaker 5 And like you said in the beginning, cyber policies in the past, a lot of times combine the two.

Speaker 5 But at this point, we're separating it out because hacking attacks are so real and there's so much going on that

Speaker 5 combining the exposure of the two on the one policy is too much. Yeah.
So I agree with you. I think they need to be, I think they could be sold as a package, but the forms have to be separated.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah. I think that's the way it has to be.

Speaker 5 I mean, that's my personal opinion on how it should be sold as separate forms, but packaged together, mostly to make it understandable and easy for brokers and customers, insureds to understand what the hell they're purchasing.

Speaker 5 Because, you know, but if, so if it came as a package, but

Speaker 5 was technically separate forms, I think that would be an incredible way to deliver that, especially if you had a, if, you know, whether it was a broader.

Speaker 5 industry or just a broader sense of what tech E ⁇ O covered. I think there's a lot of opportunity there.
It feels very narrow to me as one of the, as a coverage. Yeah, yeah, totally.

Speaker 5 And I actually personally lived that space a bit because

Speaker 5 my dad

Speaker 5 has specialized in insuring tech companies in Silicon Valley. That was, you know, his niche as a producer and still is really tech, venture capital, and private equity.

Speaker 5 So I've seen him go through that process. And it's been a really interesting market because I think tech, you know, is much harder to get now

Speaker 5 than it was

Speaker 5 five, 10 years ago. There's people pulling out.
And I think the underwriting is still being perfected in that space. Well, it's what is tech.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 Like that's, it's such an ethereal thing that

Speaker 5 I think, you know, there are some very straightforward senses of what that is. And then it gets, you know, the gray fringes are

Speaker 5 very wide or, you know, there's a lot of breadth to the to the fringes to what constitutes, where does a tech, when is this just

Speaker 5 a standard E ⁇ O policy? And when is it a tech ENO policy? And when do you need neither? And what is the real trigger to the exposure? And when do you just need cyber coverage, right? I mean,

Speaker 5 these are

Speaker 5 real questions that I think everyone outside of true specialists have.

Speaker 5 And even there, you know, I think you get confused by what is a moving target in terms of underwriting guidelines and appetite and all that kind of stuff because no one can figure it out.

Speaker 5 And it doesn't help that. every system is being tested a thousand times a day by hackers.
I mean,

Speaker 5 you you want to run it. You want to get the shit scared out of you.
Launch a brand new website. Don't ever go to it.
Just launch it and then watch the traffic, right? Just watch the traffic.

Speaker 5 You'll have your bot traffic will be 200, 500 hits within like a day or two. Yeah.
And you're like, it doesn't even exist. It's just a, there's nothing even there.
How are they finding?

Speaker 5 Because these freaking bots are just scanning the web all day long, constantly.

Speaker 5 It's just wild. And people just don't realize this.
They don't, they don't, they have no idea. No, that's a great point.

Speaker 5 That's a great point for people to know how often hacking attacks are happening. I mean, even in our own industry, Ryan, when you look at the last few months,

Speaker 5 AXA hacked.

Speaker 5 CNA,

Speaker 5 $40 million ransom.

Speaker 5 Arthur J. Gallagher, right?

Speaker 5 Like, couldn't, couldn't, you couldn't get a quote from him. We were getting brokers that were coming to us are like, hey, we usually go to, we usually go to,

Speaker 5 you know, Gallagher or,

Speaker 5 you know, RPS to get our cyber quotes, but they just didn't have access, right? So,

Speaker 5 man, and honestly, like the, a lot of our insurance agencies we work with have experienced hacking attacks themselves. So,

Speaker 5 you know, they, they, at the end of the day, serve as great claims examples for clients and how real things are.

Speaker 5 So, but it's the new world that we're living in. Yeah.

Speaker 5 So is there anything

Speaker 5 coming down the pipe in the cyberspace, just in general, that people should look out for? Is there any new coverages?

Speaker 5 Is there any talk in the cyber nerd forums of new things that we need to be prepared for that we need to consider?

Speaker 5 I mean, most people probably found half the shit that we've said so far to be beyond what they've thought about and that doesn't make them bad.

Speaker 5 But like, is there anything new that that we're going to see in the next 12 to 24 months that we should be prepared for from a cyber perspective?

Speaker 5 Well, from a coverage standpoint, one thing I'm excited that we recently introduced into our forum is

Speaker 5 cyber coverage for senior executive officers personal funds.

Speaker 5 Because a lot of times we see

Speaker 5 the CEO or the CFO or you know, the principal or somebody that's high up get targeted specifically by hackers. And a lot of times you'll see these C-level folks, really anybody at a company,

Speaker 5 doing their personal banking at work, going to wellsfargo.com. You mentioned key logging malware.

Speaker 5 If someone puts that on your computer, they just get your username and password to your Bank of America bank account.

Speaker 5 You know, they can transfer funds out. So that's specifically covered within our form.

Speaker 5 Another crazy thing is in the last year or so, there was the first death associated with a cyber attack.

Speaker 5 It was a German hospital, I believe. They got hit by a ransomware attack.
The technology was down, so they couldn't admit patients.

Speaker 5 So something, something happened, there was an accident that happened, or someone needed medical, urgent medical care. They were not able to be admitted to this hospital.

Speaker 5 And unfortunately, they ended up passing away. So that is another form of coverage.

Speaker 5 So bodily injury coverage associated with hacking attacks is something that we have built into our our form recently.

Speaker 5 And I think when you look at the future, you know, you can talk about more comprehensive bodily injury coverage. You can talk about property damage.

Speaker 5 You know, when you talk about someone hacking into like a Tesla or something like that, that's a really interesting space.

Speaker 5 But like I said in the beginning, if something's connected to the internet, it can be hacked.

Speaker 5 So, you know, when you talk about your thermostat being connected to the internet, you know, when you talk about like,

Speaker 5 you know, your smart home whether it's your smart refrigerator your smart um range your smart washer dryer your smart locks right

Speaker 5 those all could be the initiation of significant financial loss if they're hacked so it's there there's significant potential for the market to grow and that's that's one of the reasons in the beginning why we named the company evolve because we knew that the not only would the hacking attacks change, but the coverage would change along with it.

Speaker 5 So it's funny.

Speaker 5 We have enjoyed the name Evolve just because when we go to cyber conferences and cyber events, it's just free marketing because everyone's saying evolve, evolve, evolve as things change. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's wild. It is, it is pretty,

Speaker 5 you just think about,

Speaker 5 you know.

Speaker 5 You just think about everything that's connected as it gets more connected. You know, obviously good cybersecurity is always a good first line line of defense.

Speaker 5 But, like, always, if you don't have a good insurance policy, there's no one showing up after that.

Speaker 5 You know, I had some guy say to me one time, I have a cyber, I have a cybersecurity from the houseman. I said, okay, great.
Well, but they, do they offer you cyber insurance?

Speaker 5 He's like, no, I'll just sue them if something goes wrong. And I'm like, that is a wild way.
Like, that's a wild mindset.

Speaker 5 Like, versus, I mean, I'm telling you, the policy that I quoted him was like 1400 bucks. Like, this wasn't like some big, huge policy.
Like, yes.

Speaker 5 Just the mentality of i'd rather have nothing because you because whatever whatever reason and i'll just sue my cyber security company i'm like one

Speaker 5 how do you know you'd win they probably they're probably doing most things right two like what the what like this is the mentality i just

Speaker 5 Yeah, and if it's a legitimate cybersecurity or it company, they probably have a contract in place that spells out what happens if there's something that they don't catch. But yeah, that is wild.

Speaker 5 And the other thing i want to reiterate about cyber policies is they give you access to forensics firms to pr firms to folks that literally have ransomware negotiators on their team like that is that is the forensics firms associated with our cyber policy they have ransomware war rooms where they're going to be acting on the insurance behalf And not only are they going to be figuring out, because it's extremely expensive to have the forensics firms come, like if you were just just to not have a cyber policy, to get the forensics firms to come in, figure out what's in your system, figure out what happened, figure out how to get it back to normal, repair it if need be.

Speaker 5 And then, oh, wait, you just lost 5,000 people's information. Now we need to bring in a legal firm to figure out what you need to do because you just lost all their data.
It's been exposed.

Speaker 5 And now you need to notify. You need to figure out what regulations you need to comply with.

Speaker 5 And then, you know what? Now we've been down for four days. And how much revenue have we lost per day? What's the business interruption costs associated with that? Right.

Speaker 5 And then if there's an extortion itself, do we have to pay that? Do we not? Right.

Speaker 5 Like we saw in the colonial pipeline attack, I believe it was negotiated down from 10 million and they ended up paying 5 million on that ransom.

Speaker 5 But a lot of times these ransomware hackers literally have call centers. It's a business.
where they're like, okay, you know, they're communicating with the forensics firms.

Speaker 5 The forensics firms are very used to it.

Speaker 5 So that's why I'm excited for this sales academy because we're going to have like the forensics guys, like the ransomware negotiators come in and talk about, you know, this is how it typically works.

Speaker 5 This is what you need to be prepared for. And kind of talking about the major things that act as selling points for brokers and that business owners should be aware of.

Speaker 5 It's a pretty wild idea that somewhere

Speaker 5 there is just like showing up for work, you know, just

Speaker 5 hat, you know, whatever, lunch, walk out the door, like, bye, honey. You know, have a nice day.
And like, you show up to like hackers, you know, whatever.

Speaker 5 And like, that's what you, what, that's what you do today. Like, today I'm going to, I'm going to send out like 10 million emails.
Hopefully one of them will hook someone.

Speaker 5 And then I'm going to start talking to them on the phone and negotiating, you know, their ransom. And that's, and you come home and like, how's your day?

Speaker 5 Well, I got like, I got 25,000 out of this business in Maine. And, you know, I mean, like, right? I mean, that's same.
It's just crazy. That's like what their day is.
Like, it's just like, oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 And then, you know, you throw a big like champagne party on the pipeline one or whatever, you know, it's just yeah, it's, it's wild. And frankly, you don't even need to have technical expertise.

Speaker 5 Like, you know, a lot of people have that image of that hacker in the basement, you know, eating chips.

Speaker 5 But you can literally buy ransomware on the dark web and then you just get a bunch of email addresses and send it out to them. Like that, that's how simple it is.

Speaker 5 So it's not as complex as people might think. That's actually would be a good SaaS company.
Like you take like 5% of all your ransomware hits and you just sell ransomware as a service. Yeah.
And,

Speaker 5 you know, you just sell it to hackers. They put the emails through and you get 5 to 10% of whatever ransomware they get.
Ryan, we've seen that.

Speaker 5 We've seen that exact thing where there's literally taking commissions from the software that they are, the malware that they are putting out there on the dark web.

Speaker 5 Yeah.

Speaker 5 So, uh, well, hey, everybody's got to make a buck, you know, but it's our job to make sure that buck doesn't come from our clients, or at least if it does, we can, uh, we can get it back.

Speaker 5 So, yeah, dude, I appreciate you spending this time. I'm a big fan of what you're doing.

Speaker 5 Um, where can people learn one more about Evolve and two, about the conference that you're putting on if they're super interested in cyber and up in their cyber game yeah

Speaker 5 so to learn more about evolve uh you can go to evolvemga.com

Speaker 5 and uh we work with retail brokers across the us

Speaker 5 and if someone's looking to get a quote or get appointed if you just go to our website evolvemga.com and click the get a quote

Speaker 5 you fill out your insurance information, the agency's information. We can get folks appointed.

Speaker 5 The other area is going to underwriting at evolvemj.com, emailing underwriting at evolvemj.com with anything they would like, any questions that they have, we're happy to act as an educational resource.

Speaker 5 And then I'd say for the upcoming Sales Academy, I'm super excited about it. It's going to be the first week of November, November 2nd and 3rd.
And it's going to be in Dallas.

Speaker 5 Just a couple highlights, but we're going to have the whole purpose of the conference is any agent that attends, they should be able to leave that conference being able to explain cyber exposure and quality cyber coverage to any one of their clients in under two minutes and we're going to have the best of the best in the industry from uh forensic professionals to frank abingdale from catch me if you can to you know one of the number one cyber producers at hub to talk about his sales process

Speaker 5 and then you're going to have access to all of our underwriting team to ask them questions and so and i think at the end we're going to give our like kind of like sales playbook for cyber to anyone that attends so um very excited especially because it's really our first conference coming out of covet as well so it's going to be great to see people face to face yeah that's awesome where can people get more info on that is it on the website as well or where do they sign up if they're interested you know uh we are creating a web page for people to register it is not up and official yet so if there are folks that are interested just emailing underwriting at evolvemj.com saying, I'm interested in attending the Cyber Sales Academy.

Speaker 5 We're probably going to reserve it to about 100 seats. So

Speaker 5 I know we have a lot of folks in Texas alone, a lot of folks that attended our last one in Chicago. So the seats will fill up quick, but emailing underwriting at evolvemj.com is the best way for us to

Speaker 5 make sure people get reserved. Awesome, man.
Well, hey, I appreciate you. I appreciate you coming on the show and sharing.
And I've just been following you guys for for a while.

Speaker 5 We're an appointed evolve MGA. And as we start to have more policies roll in,

Speaker 5 you guys are in the mix. And we look forward to writing more business with you.
And hopefully

Speaker 5 some of the listeners here will get on the train too.

Speaker 5 And just speaking to the agents before we sign off, guys, I mean, I've said this a bunch on the show, dropped a lot.

Speaker 5 I wanted to do this episode specifically because cyber is one, it's a great way to add more value to your customers. It's a great way to put money into your bottom line.

Speaker 5 But you are providing, I mean, this is really what we do is getting out ahead ahead of these things and getting coverage in our clients hands and i i just to me cyber is an absolute no-brainer like we have to get this in our clients hands for commercial clients so appreciate you man of course ryan thank you so much for having me on i love what you're doing and uh love the energy love the entrepreneurial spirit so uh if there's anything you ever need anytime then thank you

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