UKON has been making the rounds.
Blackpoint Cyber has partnered with UKON to enhance cyber risk protection for managed service providers. This collaboration combines Blackpoint’s Managed Detection and Response platform with UKON’s cyber insurance marketplace, aiming to empower providers with real-time protection and smarter coverage options. The partnership will allow managed service providers to engage in more informed risk conversations, addressing increasing insurance and compliance demands. According to Mike Yang, Chief Financial Officer of Blackpoint Cyber, this initiative represents a scalable approach to cyber risk that merges operational defense with financial resilience.
Cork Protection and UKON have announced a strategic partnership aimed at transforming Managed Service Providers, or MSPs, into cyber risk advisors. This collaboration combines Cork’s real-time cyber risk insights platform with UKON’s cyber insurance marketplace, enabling MSPs to effectively quantify and communicate cyber risks. As cyber threats continue to evolve, this partnership addresses the critical need for MSPs to be included in insurance and risk discussions. With Cork’s Active Risk Monitoring Platform, MSPs can gain real-time visibility into cyber exposure, while UKON provides underwriting-ready risk reports and tailored insurance options.
Guardz has successfully raised $56 million in Series B funding, bringing its total funding to $84 million since its launch in early 2023. This capital will help accelerate the company’s expansion in the United States and enhance its artificial intelligence-driven cybersecurity platform designed for Managed Service Providers, or MSPs. As cyberattacks increasingly target small and medium-sized businesses, MSPs face challenges managing multiple fragmented cybersecurity solutions, with 77 percent reporting struggles according to a recent survey. Guardz aims to unify cybersecurity tools into a single platform, allowing MSPs to detect threats more quickly and efficiently. The company’s platform includes features such as 24/7 Managed Detection and Response, which combines automated detection with expert threat hunting, streamlining protection across various digital assets. Guardz’s CEO, Dor Eisner, emphasized the company’s commitment to empowering MSPs in their critical role as the first line of defense for businesses.
Why do we care?
UKON is buying seats at the MSP table. The cyber-insurance marketplace (spun out of FifthWall Solutions) signed separate deals to wrap its underwriting engine around Blackpoint Cyber’s 24 × 7 MDR stack and Cork’s real-time risk-insight platform, giving providers one-click paths from telemetry to bindable policies.
The money and partnerships all point the same way: cyber-risk financing is merging with cyber-risk prevention, and MSPs are the connective tissue. Get fluent in insurance language now. Train account managers to read declarations, exclusions, and retention terms; align your security stack to underwriting questionnaires so you can prove control coverage on demand. Productise “risk-to-premium” reporting. Use platforms like Cork or Guardz (or your own SIEM data) to show how hardening actions lower modeled loss — and share that delta on QBR slides.
Security tooling is getting commoditised; risk advisory isn’t. Lean into the new seat at the insurance table, but protect your autonomy and liabilities while you monetise the convergence.