The Source for Cyber Insurance News, Insights and Data
“One broker noted that ‘the insurance industry has done a really poor job on educating brokers and, more importantly, clients about how important cyber coverage is, how great the risk is, and how comprehensive the coverage can be if properly placed.’ Another responded that the industry also needs to be ‘educating non-tech businesses on their … Read more
“The first is company mapping, which is equivalent to a company’s ancestral tree. Understanding parent entities and subsidiaries and how they work together inform cyber integrity. The second type is technographic data, which showcases the technologies, services, and data centers that the company relies on. Digital asset data is commonly used to understand the scale … Read more
“The new central cyber underwriting team will assume global responsibility for Swiss Re’s underwriting and product development activities in the cyber sector.” The company has hired John Coletti to manage the effort. Source: Swiss Re to create central cyber underwriting team | Insurance Business
The answer in most cases appears to be “no.” “A cyber liability policy could respond to an SEC investigation, depending on the policy’s wording, ‘but there’s a big caveat to that, and that is that cyber policies typically exclude non-privacy-related fines,’” (a brokerage executive) said. Then there are the implications for D&O insurance and the … Read more
“The National Institute of Standards and Technology will work with Microsoft, Google and the insurance industry companies Travelers and Coalition to create a new framework designed to help guide the creation of more secure technology products and to audit the security of technology products, the administration said in the fact sheet.” Coalition and Resilience also … Read more