MSPs Warned: Be Careful About Giving Clients Cyber Insurance Advice 

“During an XChange session titled ‘What An MSP Needs To Know About Cyber Insurance,’ …Paul Vedder, managing director of Palm Beach Grardens, Fla.-based VXI…agreed that compliance is becoming a larger segment of their business relationships with customers. Vedder, responding to questions from panel moderator Jim King of Atlantic Pacific Insurance, said that MSP personnel need … Read more

Wall Street Journal on Cyber Insurance and Acts of War 

The OPED identifies the issue, but in our opinion is light on solutions. The writer suggests companies publicize their cyber risk controls: “Demonstrating such preparedness will appeal to shareholders and customers and attract new ones.” Many industry insiders may prefer to focus on pushing government programs to back-stop private insurance when state-sponsored attacks occur. “State-sponsored … Read more

Movement to More Effective Underwriting of Cyber (Re)Insurance: CyberCube Provides Risk Exposure Databases 

CyberCube says it’s offering the first detailed Industry Exposure Databases (IED), which allow (re)insurers and brokers to quantify real-time cyber risks. “The first release of CyberCube’s Exposure Databases focuses on US standalone cyber insurance and represents the global insurance industry’s exposure and risk to US companies. These Exposure Databases can provide (re)insurers and brokers with … Read more

Re to the Rescue: BDT Capital Forms “Ferian Re” with Cyber Insurer Coalition 

The cyber insurance industry needs reinsurance capital to keep growing. Coalition partnered with BDT Capital to form this  independent Bermuda-based Class 3B reinsurer. “Joshua Motta, founder and CEO of Coalition, added, ‘The rapid growth of the cyber insurance industry has outpaced the supply of reinsurance capital. We’re excited for Ferian Re to bring alternative capital … Read more

Creepy Twist from Hackers of Australian Insurance Company Medibank

“The group threatened to release the data of Medibank’s ‘1k most [prominent] media persons’ which includes ‘[those with the] most [social media] followers, politicians, actors, bloggers, LGBT activists [and] drug addicted people’ as well as people with ‘very interesting diagnoses.’” Source: Medibank is latest Australian company to suffer cyber security incident | Cyber Security Hub

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