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Mark Sauter “Developed in collaboration with (Periculus and) TIP National, the offering allows small and medium-sized businesses to instantly request a quote, purchase, and manage a cyber insurance policy customized to meet the needs of the business.” Source: Periculus, TIP National partner in new cyber insurance offering | Insurance Business America
“Globally, commercial insurance rates increased by 9% on average in the quarter, he said. In North America, commercial rates increased 8% overall, with retail property insurance rates rising 14%. Lexington, AIG’s excess and surplus lines business, saw rates rise 13% and financial lines increased 12%, including an 85% rate increase for cyber liability…” Source: AIG … Read more
“Instead of paying a $569,000 (cyber insurance) premium to pay the contractors or the ransom, a city pays millions,” says the report, which details some of the expenses after the attack. Another source reports the attack ended up costing Baltimore $18 million in direct expenses and lost revenue. Source: As Baltimore rebuilds from 2019 ransomware … Read more
“Among other steps, Kentucky’s law requires insurers to ‘identify reasonably foreseeable internal or external threats that could result in unauthorized access, transmission, disclosure, misuse, alteration, or destruction of nonpublic information, including the security of information systems and nonpublic information that are accessible to, or held by, third-party service providers,’ the law reads.” Source: Kentucky Becomes … Read more
“The vendor-agnostic survey of 5600 IT professionals, conducted by Vanson Bourne, found that 98% of businesses hit by ransomware had cyber insurance that covered ransomware and that the policy paid out in the most significant attack. In addition, the survey reveals an increase in the payment of clean-up costs (77%) and a decrease in ransom … Read more