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Electric vehicles and their infrastructure will create new complexity for insurers. What if a hacker creates a massive car crash? Or a grid is taken down by malware originating in…
[Yes, we didn’t know that’s North Dakota’s office nickname.] How to help state/local governments improve their cybersecurity when cyber employees are scarce, threats many and insurance expensive? An innovative approach…
The hints come from an article by the National Security Agency’s (NSA) former general counsel, Glenn S. Gerstell, who’s been involved in development of the plan. He predicts a much…
Media discussion of a “cyber TRIP” tends to the bullish. This report, by post-doc cyber insurance researcher Daniel Woods @leltop, surfaces the potential downside of such a plan, from moral…
While not everybody is yet entirely convinced the feds should provide a backstop to cyber insurers for catastrophic system-wide attacks, Politico reports the discussion is moving forward. “But policymakers and…
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The Des Moines, Iowa school system has called in its (unnamed) cyber insurer, the FBI and DHS after an apparent ransomware attack, which put 30,000 students out of school for…
“Lawmakers also want CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) to report back in 90 days about the feasibility of a public-private ‘cyber insurance and data analysis’ working group and establishing…
“(David Fringer, the executive director of information technology at Green Hills Area Education Association) said (cyber insurance) costs for the Council Bluffs school system three years ago when he worked…
American Property Casualty Insurance Association’s response to the federal government’s request for comment on cyber insurance issues: “We believe it is premature to explore the details of a federal insurance…
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You’ve got until Jan. 17th to weigh in. See instructions in the embedded document at the link below. Requested feedback includes: “Address incentivizing cybersecurity adoption and compliance. TSA wrote that…
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