Insurance Linked Securities and Cyber Data

Interesting tidbit in CyberCube yearly report: “All cyber cat bonds issued in 2023 utilized CyberCube’s model, marking an expansion into CyberCube serving the financial sector.” ILS growth in cyber liability insurance sector will depend on constantly improving risk data.

Fears of Massive Cyber War Losses are Overblown: Catastrophic Risk Expert

We’ve reported extensively on the insurance industry’s fear of “cyber war;” debate over exclusions for state-backed, systemic cyber attacks; moves by governments to backstop the cyber insurance industry for massive attacks; and the challenges of current modeling of risk accumulation and catastrophic cyber events. Now comes a contrarian view from a leading cyber risk risk … Read more

You’re Measuring Systemic Risk all Wrong, InsuranceERM Tells Cyber Insurance Industry

We’ve reported extensively on the challenges of the cyber insurance industry in modeling systemic risk and the related accumulation risk (insurance risk of multiple, unanticipated claims from the same or related events, such as a large cyber attack.) InsuranceERM, a provider of news and information on insurance and risk, suggests the industry is using a … Read more

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