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“One company, New York-based Parametrix Insurance Services LLC, is targeting businesses hit by a cloud outage. Parametrix sells insurance specifically to mitigate the risks of downtime events, compensating businesses for any losses, including lost revenue and the cost of recovery, when their cloud-computing provider or cloud-based applications service goes down.”
“If Merck eventually winning seems like good news for enterprises in similar policy situations, it is — but with a caveat. The vagaries of the policy meant it took five years and litigation to recover a substantial amount of losses, something attorney Marcus Christian, a partner at Mayer Brown’s cyber and data privacy practice, said … Read more
The company’s Global Threat Brief H1-2022 calls out several sectors with significant risk: education, healthcare, manufacturing and utilities. As for specific attacks: “In the first half of 2022, we can expect to see an active cyber threat landscape with more digital supply chain and Single Pointof Failure (SPoF) attacks… CyberCube expects to see ransomware threat … Read more
“New Jersey Superior Court Judge Thomas J. Walsh ruled Jan. 13 that Merck’s insurers can’t claim the war exclusion because its language is meant to apply to armed conflict. The ruling noted that insurers didn’t change the war language to put companies like Merck “on notice” that cyberattacks wouldn’t be covered, despite a trend of attacks … Read more
Keep an eye on the role of Managing General Agents/MGAs (brokers with underwriting authority from carriers), says @CyberDanBurke. “Greater adoption of MGA capacity and the willingness of traditional cyber insurance carriers to write insurance above these MGAs in a cyber insurance tower will be an area to watch throughout 2022.” Includes commentary from Woodruff expert … Read more