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Cyber insurance professionals well remember the market shake up and debate a year ago when Lloyd’s Market Association announced model cyber war clauses. As we reported, the announcement led to market confusion, claims such an attack could cost trillions of dollars, push back about such dramatic reports on the cost of cyber war and growing … Read more
Dell Technologies’ latest Global Data Protection Index (GDPI) paints a concerning picture: cyberattacks are rising, multicloud data protection remains a puzzle, and the data deluge from generative AI is on the horizon. Concerning cyber liability insurance, the report notes: “Despite ransomware insurance policies being commonplace, they come heavily caveated, leaving organizations financially vulnerable.” Findings in … Read more
The predictions come in the tech giant’s report “Cybersecurity Forecast 2024: Insights for Future Planning.” The report is a fascinating read for anyone involved in the cyber security arena — we were struck by the section on “Pig Butchering* scams,” among others — but more to point are the comments on cyber liability insurance. “Cyber … Read more
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) release announces a new partnership with Stanford’s Empirical Security Research Group and focuses on analyzing the effectiveness of security controls, with a focus on ransomware. The effort begins in December. “CISA will ask working group members to collaborate with Stanford to improve analysis of the aggregated, anonymized loss … Read more
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