Coalition, Inc.

👋 Say hello to this month’s spotlight, Annie Billman, Principal Technical Program Manager. Annie is based in Oregon and joined the Coalition team in 2022. 💡Annie was in the middle of a job hunt when a venture capitalist friend mentioned that cyber insurance would be a key player in the coming years. He specifically mentioned Coalition, so Annie applied for an open role. A year later, a role that more closely matched her experience opened up, and that’s when she joined our team. ✅ As a technical program manager, Annie focuses on Coalition’s cybersecurity governance, risk, and compliance and works on anything related to compliance, standards, controls, or policies. In her day-to-day, she reviews contracts, ensures we have proper access controls in place, reviews new regulations, and determines if any gaps in our infosec program need to be filled. 🏃♀️Since she gets the best focus time in the morning, she appreciates the flexibility of our remote-first culture. It allows her to step away to walk her dog or go for a run to reset her focus if it’s drifting before jumping back into work. 🔑 Annie’s favorite part of her yearly team offsites is the escape room competitions. They give her insight into how everyone communicates and solves problems together. 🎨 Outside work, she loves to paint acrylics and watercolors — including pet portraits.

There are many dynamic duos: PB&J, Sonny and Cher, and Bert and Ernie. It’s time to add cyber insurance and security to the list. 📝 Integrating cybersecurity best practices and tooling with cyber insurance is crucial for businesses wanting more protection. Our brokers can now quote cybersecurity packages with security awareness training, email security, or MDR when you quote cyber insurance. Check it out with your next cyber quote and enhance your clients’ protection. https://bit.ly/4iPQBXA

We’re thrilled to welcome comedian and actor Mike Birbiglia to the main stage at Activate! Known for his Netflix comedy specials and award-winning podcast, Mike will help us close out Activate with more than a few laughs, and then it’s on to the Broker Bash! There’s still time for brokers to sign up 👉 https://bit.ly/3FuIr8H

Activate, our first broker conference, wouldn't be the same without the help of our incredible sponsors. ☺️ We'd like to thank each of our sponsors: Platinum: SentinelOne Gold: CIPRIANI & WERNER PC, Constangy, Mullen Coughlin LLC Silver: Allianz Commercial, Booz Allen Incident Response, CrowdStrike, Material Security Bronze: Arete, Charles River Associates, Chaucer Group, HDI Group, IronGate Cybersecurity LLC, McDonald Hopkins LLC, MSIG USA, Stroz Friedberg, an Aon company There's still time to join us at Activate if you haven't saved your spot: https://bit.ly/3F7CuOV

Please join us in giving a warm welcome to Maha Virudhagiri, Coalition's first Chief Technology Officer! As CTO, Maha will lead engineering, IT, infosec, data and AI with a keen focus on advancing our technology strategy in order to make our security and insurance solutions more accessible and scalable to businesses across the globe.

Having dedicated time with our teams and working on problems cross-functionally are always some of our favorite memories at Camp Coalition. This year, we held a company-wide hackathon where teams were tasked with creating a proof of concept in just three hours. Some killer solutions were presented to improve broker and policyholder experiences, automation, renewals, and more. 😁 We're excited to get to work on many of these ideas that will have big impacts to our brokers, policyholders, and internal workflows.

Ransomware attacks are rarely innovative. Yep, we said it. ♻️ Threat actors typically follow the same playbook to carry out their attacks. The Cyber Threat Index 2025 examines the playbook and provides actionable insights on how businesses can protect themselves. Learn about the common tactics ➡️ https://bit.ly/4kBA630

If you're a small business, you probably don't have a huge cybersecurity budget.💰 You also can't simply ignore cyber threats and hope they won't happen to you. So how can you get the biggest ROI from your security solutions? Join us on Wednesday, March 19, to find out: https://bit.ly/3XrzAuE

Rolling out cybersecurity improvements or updates in manufacturing can be especially disruptive to production and impact the bottom line. But that challenge shouldn't mean that manufacturers ignore their cybersecurity. Joe Toomey, Head of Security Engineering, explained what manufacturers are up against and why it's so important for them to develop a cybersecurity plan to protect their operations. Read the full article in FFJournal Magazine ➡️ https://bit.ly/3DhiIQi

Small businesses are usually ill-equipped to manage cybersecurity because they don't have the budget or team to properly tackle it. Unfortunately, that doesn't mean cybercriminals will leave them alone. Find out how managed detection and response (MDR) can provide small businesses with cost-effective 24/7 monitoring by cybersecurity experts: https://bit.ly/4i3aqL3