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The future of cyber insurance

IT Security Guru

Cyber insurers are losing money. Their loss ratios – total claims plus the insurer’s costs, divided by total premiums earned – are now consistently above 60%, which presents something of an existential threat to the insurance industry, making cyber risk a potentially uninsurable area due to falling profitability.

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Checklist for Getting Cyber Insurance Coverage

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Checklist for Getting Cyber Insurance Coverage. Tue, 05/10/2022 - 05:43. As cyber criminals mature and advance their tactics, small and medium businesses become the most vulnerable because they lack the capacity – staff, technology, budget - to build strong cyber defenses.

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Premium for Cyber Insurance has soared over the past few years

CyberSecurity Insiders

Cyber Insurance premiums are becoming dearer and the reason for such a rise is claimed to be sophistication in attacks that are making mitigation and recovery expensive. Most companies are showing laxity in following basic cyber security hygiene, leading to a surge in cyber-attacks and data breaches.

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Cyber Insurance and the Changing Global Risk Environment

Security Affairs

When security fails, cyber insurance can become crucial for ensuring continuity. Cyber has changed everything around us – even the way we tackle geopolitical crisis and conflicts. According to a report by IDC , by the end of 2022, nearly 65% of the global GDP will be digitized — reliant on a digital system of some kind.

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Large Insurer Says Cyber Attacks Are Becoming 'Uninsurable'

SecureWorld News

While claims due to natural catastrophes are expected to top $100 billion in 2022 -- as it did in 2021 -- losses due to cyber attacks continue to climb. Insurance underwriters have no choice but to try and limit exposure through providing less coverage or hiking up the cost of cyber insurance.

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Zurich chief warned that cyber attacks will become uninsurable

Security Affairs

The chief executive of insurance giant Zurich warns that cyber attacks, rather than natural catastrophes, will become uninsurable. Mario Greco, chief executive of insurer giant Zurich, has warned that cyber attacks will become soon “uninsurable.”. These people can severely disrupt our lives.”

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

One possible solution, touted by former Department of Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff on a recent podcast , would be for the federal government to step in and help pay for these sorts of attacks by providing a cyber insurance backstop.