Insurance Linked Securities/ILS

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

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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

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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

Better Modeling Will not Save the Cyber Re/Insurance Industry from Catastrophic Risk: The Geneva Association

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“Cyber Risk Accumulation: Fully Tackling the Insurability Challenge’” is a useful new report from The Geneva Association (GA), “a global association of insurance and reinsurance CEOs and think tank for the insurance industry.” See information on the report here. We found a number of the report’s findings valuable, including the role and recent history of … Read more

New Cyber Loss Index Tracks Systemic Incidents Impacting the Cyber Insurance Industry

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The Index has been established by PERILS, the Swiss-based provider of catastrophe insurance data, and CyberAcuView, an organization set up by cyber insurers. The Index will include primary losses from systemic cyber incidents affecting more than one insurer and one policyholder. It will report events exceeding $500 million in industry losses within six months after … Read more

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