Healthcare Ransom Payments Keep Falling. Downtime Still Drives The Bill.

Cyber Insurance News report on healthcare cyberattacks showing a dark hospital corridor with blank monitors and an empty gurney

Fewer healthcare organizations hit by ransomware are paying, a Ponemon Institute survey for Proofpoint finds. The costliest healthcare cyberattacks still averaged $4.2 million, mostly in downtime. The patient harm the study highlights may sit outside cyber cover. Healthcare organizations hit by ransomware are paying less often. In 2022, 51% said they paid. This year, 31% … Read more

OT Cyberattacks Cost About $1 Million. Fewer Than One In Four Listed An Insurance Claim.

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Most organizations running cyber-physical systems experienced a cyberattack on operations in the past year, Claroty’s survey found. Nearly all of them lost money. Fewer than one in four listed an insurance claim among the results. Operational technology (OT) cyberattacks cost organizations about $1 million on average. Fewer than one in four led to an insurance … Read more

Cyber Cover Follows The Executive Home, And Gets Clearer On AI

Cyber Insurance News story on executive cyber protection showing a glowing line running from an office tower to a family home at night

CFC has updated Cyber Proactive Response, its cyber policy for small and mid-sized businesses. Senior executives gain personal protection. The affirmative AI wording gets an update. The business interruption period stretches to 18 months. A cyber extortion threat does not have to stop at the company network. It can follow an executive home. CFC’s latest … Read more

Most UK Retailers Hit By Cyber Disruption Say They Overspend On Cyber

Cyber Insurance News story on UK retail cyber risk showing a shopfront at night with shelves of glowing padlocks behind a half-lowered shutter

Marsh surveyed 350 senior UK retail executives. Among those who went through a major cyber disruption last year, 64% say they are overinvesting in cyber resilience. Marsh says the measure that matters is speed of recovery. Last year, cyberattacks caused mass disruption at major UK retailers, including Marks & Spencer. The sector responded by spending. … Read more

Eighty-Eight Percent Have A Plan. Twenty-One Percent Have An Inventory.

Cyber Insurance News story on OT cybersecurity showing an industrial plant at night with one tower unlit and invisible illustrative of industrial cyber risk.

Eighty-eight percent of industrial security leaders describe their OT security program as planned or design-led. Twenty-one percent report a complete asset inventory. A program cannot protect equipment nobody has counted. Honeywell Technologies has now put a number on what that gap costs in hours. Its inaugural OT Cybersecurity Benchmark Report surveyed 603 respondents across critical … Read more

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