Cyber Insurance Best Practices

Financial Sector Chafes at Cyber Insurance Costs & Requirements: Industry Report 

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“Cyber insurance will undergo an identity crisis,” says the Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC), the cyber intelligence-sharing community for financial services. “(S)ome financial sector firms are beginning to reconsider cyber insurance. In some cases, premiums rise so high that firms are considering ring-fencing capital equivalent to the estimated premiums as an alternative … Read more

A Step toward “Skinnier Cyber Insurance?” Marsh Lowers Threshold for Cyber Coverage

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For reference, our post on “Skinny Cyber Insurance” for smaller companies with limited cybersecurity resources that need to prove coverage to their supply chain partners. “’The coverage that these companies would get out of the gate will be a little bit more restricted than it would be if they had controls in place,’ (Marsh’s Susan) Young … Read more

Psst… Hackers Try to Team Up with Insured Against Cyber Carriers 

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“A new scheme involves demanding that the target provide details of its cyber insurance policies so that the payment demands can be adjusted to fall within the coverage the victim purchased.” (We’ve written about this trend before… ) Excerpt of a message from a ransomware gang (provided by Varonis): “(S)ince the sneaky insurance agent purposely … Read more

PEGs Want Their Portfolio Companies to Have Cyber Insurance. But What’s the Best Way?

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Tax, audit and advisory firm Grant Thornton has ideas. “Some sort of shared access, as opposed to aggregated purchasing, may gain some of the advantages without triggering these issues (challenges in portfolio-wide cyber insurance requirements and purchasing.) Another promising approach would be for PE firms to create financial incentives, possibly funded by a shared pool, … Read more

Will AI Help the Hackers or Cyber Carriers More?

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Peter Hedberg, Vice President of Cyber Underwriting at Corvus Insurance, worries the hackers may benefit more in the short term: “Chat GPT removes a lot of markers because the answers that this technology delivers seems so natural and so human, however this also allows for the attack vector to scale effectively. So, instead of spending … Read more

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