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What some call the largest IT outage in history was caused by a faulty software update, not a cyber attack. But the team at Broadstone thinks the CrowdStrike debacle this summer will move the cyber liability insurance market anyway. “The CrowdStrike event, along with other recent cyber incidents like MoveIT, Change Healthcare, CDK Global, and … Read more
KYND Limited, a British cyber risk solutions provider, has officially launched in the United States. This expansion aims to address the growing need for actionable cyber risk analysis within the U.S. insurance industry. “KYND’s technology is built with one purpose in mind: to demystify cyber risk management,” said Andy Thomas, CEO and Co-Founder of KYND. … Read more
AdvantageGo, a commercial insurance and reinsurance software provider under Coforge, has partnered with FortifyData, an automated cyber risk management firm. This collaboration aims to improve the accuracy and comprehensiveness of insurers’ cyber risk scoring. AdvantageGo’s Underwriting Workbench will integrate FortifyData’s cyber risk ratings and monitoring capabilities. This integration will provide AdvantageGo’s clients with real-time insights … Read more
So reports Venture Beat in a report on AI’s impact on cyber insurance, which also says the technology can dramatically accelerate risk assessments: “Cyber insurers are also looking to AI to reduce the time and costs of real-time risk assessments that can cost between $10,000 to $50,000 per assessment and take between four to six weeks to … Read more
Cyber cat bonds issued over the last year are trading above par, “(a)n indication that these bonds are sought after in the secondary market and have not seen spread widening, but in fact have seen spreads tightening,” Dirk Schmelzer, Head Portfolio Manager ILS/CAT Bonds and Partner at Plenum Investments AG, told Artemis, a provider of … Read more