Acrisure UK has agreed a partnership with ESET, the global cybersecurity provider, combining Acrisure's cyber insurance capability with ESET's security products and managed services. The arrangement is designed to give Acrisure's clients access to resilience-building, risk management and incident response support alongside their insurance cover.
Acrisure UK's cyber team works across multiple sectors, drawing on carrier relationships to help clients secure cover tailored to the financial and operational impact of cyber incidents. ESET's contribution centres on its cloud-first ESET PROTECT platform, providing threat prevention, detection and response, alongside 24/7 managed detection and response services combining AI with human expertise for proactive threat hunting - without requiring clients to maintain in-house security specialists.
This is not Acrisure's first move to link cyber insurance with technical security capability. The group has previously formed Acrisure Cyber Services, a dedicated division combining risk assessments, insurance and data recovery support, and separately launched a London-based cyber reinsurance division through Acrisure Re in partnership with cyber risk modeller Kovrr.
The ESET partnership extends the same logic - that cyber insurance works best paired with genuine technical capability - down to the retail broking level in the UK specifically. Read alongside Acrisure's existing infrastructure, the group now spans retail broking, a dedicated cyber services division and its own reinsurance capacity, giving it more underlying architecture than most brokers to make that integration substantive.
Tim Wiltshire, director at Acrisure UK, said good cybersecurity and effective cyber insurance should work hand in hand, and that organisations increasingly treat cyber risk as a business issue requiring a combination of prevention, resilience and specialist insurance support rather than simply an IT one. He said the partnership allows both firms to offer clients peace of mind while strengthening resilience against a growing threat.
ESET invests in cybersecurity innovation through a global network of research and development centres. The company's researchers are among the most active contributors to the MITRE ATT&CK knowledge base - a widely used, freely available reference for documented adversary tactics and techniques - and have played a role in identifying sophisticated threat actors and campaigns over a number of years.
Steven Connolly, product partnership manager at ESET UK, said cyber threats continue to evolve at a pace many organisations struggle to match, and that while technology remains a critical part of the solution, businesses increasingly recognise that effective cybersecurity requires a broader risk management strategy. He said partnering with Acrisure lets ESET introduce customers to specialist cyber insurance expertise from a trusted adviser.
This partnership fits a pattern building steadily across the cyber insurance market: brokers increasingly bundling products with named security vendors rather than treating cover and prevention as separate purchases. Coalition's ESET-adjacent approach, Beazley's platform integrations and similar moves across the US market have all followed the same commercial logic over the past few years.
For brokers assessing the Acrisure/ESET offering for clients, the distinction that matters is not whether ESET's tools are credible - they are - but whether the two sides of the arrangement are genuinely integrated in practice. Does ESET's threat intelligence actually inform how Acrisure's team assesses and prices a client's risk? Or does this function as a referral arrangement giving policyholders a discounted route to security tools alongside their cover?
That distinction is not visible from the announcement alone. It will become clear in how the partnership operates at the account level: whether a client's security posture with ESET is factored into their renewal conversation with Acrisure, and whether an incident detected by ESET's MDR service triggers a coordinated response that involves the insurance team as well as the security team.
Given Acrisure's now multi-layered cyber strategy, it has more infrastructure than most brokers to make that integration genuine. Whether it does will be the more telling story once the partnership has been running for a year.
