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Soft Targets – Hard Truths. Everything MGAs Need to Know About Cyber Risk

Cyber Market Briefing Operational

Online

1st October 2025 • 13.00 - 14.00

About this session

This training session will outline why hackers target the insurance sector, how their tactics, techniques and procedures have evolved, and the steps businesses need to take to achieve operational resilience and regulatory compliance.

Learning objectives

At the end of this session, delegates will be able to:

Explain how (and why) hackers compromise targets
Summarise why operational resilience is now a legal imperative
Describe how businesses can achieve effective levels of operational cyber resilience

Craig Kennedy

Partner and Head of Cyber Consulting • HF

Craig Kennedy is a Partner and Head of Cyber Consulting at Horwich Farrelly. Formerly a Partner in the world’s largest law firm and Head of Cyber Risk at one of Europe’s leading digital transformation consultancies, he has advised many enterprise clients on cyber risk and operational resilience.

Craig is a Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management, an award-winning Accredited Counter Fraud Specialist and Member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security.