Identity Cyber Scores: Yet Another Metric to Fuck You With

Oh, brilliant. Just what we needed—another bullshit number for insurance wankers to waggle in your face while they jack up your premiums. “Identity Cyber Scores,” they call it. Sounds like some twat in marketing had a wank over their thesaurus and came up with this steaming pile of metrics.

Here’s the deal: some geniuses decided that your company’s “identity security posture”—whatever the fuck that means—needs a credit score. They scrape data from breach databases, dark web markets, and probably your mum’s Facebook page to generate a number between “You’re Proper Fucked” and “Maybe You’ll Survive Monday.” Insurance companies are eating this shit up because it gives them an excuse to charge you more money for the same garbage coverage.

The best part? Most of the data is from breaches you had sod-all to do with. Some vendor you used five years ago gets popped, and suddenly your score looks like a bloody golf scorecard after a hurricane. You can’t fix it, you can’t dispute it, and the “recommendations” are the same copy-paste crap about MFA and password policies that every auditor’s been vomiting since 2003.

And don’t get me started on the vendors peddling this snake oil. They’ll sell you “monitoring services” for the low, low price of your firstborn and a pint of blood, promising to “improve your score.” Spoiler alert: they can’t. The algorithm’s blacker than my soul after a user asks why the internet’s “broken” when they kicked out the power cable.

By 2026, this metric’s supposedly “shaping” cyber insurance. Translation: you’re getting shafted, I’m getting shafted, and some CISO with a mahogany desk is buying a third yacht. The article prattles on about “risk quantification” and “proactive security,” but it’s all wank-speak for “pay us more money and maybe we won’t laugh when you get ransomware.”

The real kicker? The score updates in “real-time,” which means some script-kiddie in a basement can tank your insurance rates by farting in your general direction on Twitter. Better hope Karen from HR doesn’t reuse her “Fluffy123” password on every site since MySpace, or you’ll be paying premiums that make a London mortgage look reasonable.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/02/identity-cyber-scores-new-metric.html

So the other day, some insurance drone rings me up, says our Identity Cyber Score dropped because “suspicious activity” was detected. Turns out, the “suspicious activity” was me running a penetration test—ON OUR OWN FUCKING NETWORK—because the idiot vendor’s API was leaking like a colander. I told the drone I’d “investigate,” then spent the afternoon routing all their monitoring traffic through a Tor exit node in Belarus. Their precious little score started screaming like a user who just discovered their deleted files aren’t in the recycle bin. They called back, panicking, offering to “manually adjust” our rating if I’d just stop whatever I was doing. I raised our premium discount by 15% and kept the Tor node running until they coughed up a bottle of 30-year-old Scotch. That’s how you play the fucking game.

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