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Cyber insurance & reinsurance news
Cyber insurance and reinsurance news, covering the growth of cyber reinsurance underwriting, the risks faced by cyber risk insurer’s, major cyber loss events, cyber reinsurance product development and cyber risk innovation trends.
Cyber risk is an emerging and fast-growing class of insurance and reinsurance business, so our cyber reinsurance news follows industry trends and reports on innovations, industry cyber risk capacity issues, as well as what is happening in the cyber underwriting market.
Cyber insurance in P&C industry grew by 22% in 2020: Fitch Ratings
25th March 2022
According to rating agency Fitch Ratings the Cybersecurity and Identity Theft Insurance Coverage Supplement reported that cyber insurance direct written premiums for the property & casualty (P&C) industry grew by 22% in 2020 to over $2.7 billion. Cyber insurance continues to be viewed as a growth market for P&C insurers, as ... Read the full article
Cowbell Cyber hires new CTO
24th March 2022
Cowbell Cyber has appointed Joshua Chan as its new CTO. Chan will be joining the firm from Zimperium, where he was previously that company’s vice president of engineering. He joins Kara Owens, who joined the company earlier this month from Markel to become Cowbell’s chief insurance officer. The company has ... Read the full article
Falvey Cargo launches new cyber coverage with Chaucer
18th March 2022
Falvey Cargo Underwriting has announced its brand new coverage protection – Cyber for Cargo. This new coverage will also see the company partnering with the leading speciality re/insurance company, Chaucer Group, to help bring this exclusive protection to Falvey clients. The company says that it recognises that cyber risk exposure is an ... Read the full article
Cowbell Cyber secures $100mn in capital
17th March 2022
Provider of cyber insurance for small and medium-sized enterprises, Cowbell Cyber, has secured $100 million in capital led by Anthemis Group with participation from Permira Funds, PruVen Capital, NYCA Partners, Viola Fintech and all existing investors. This latest financing will increase investment in data science, underwriting, risk engineering and claims management; ... Read the full article
Mosaic begins cyber underwriting team in Bermuda
15th March 2022
Mosaic is putting together a cybersecurity underwriting unit to be based in Bermuda. Citing a desire to align its global business strategy around what it calls a ‘fast-growing risk’, the insurer has moved George Cole, its cyber team underwriter, there from London. Cole will be one of a host of cyber ... Read the full article
Ariel Re picks up Portfolio Manager from CyberCube
15th March 2022
Ariel Re has decided to implement analytics platform Portfolio Manager into its organisation. The software, from CyberCube, is a scenario-based data-driven model that enables risk professionals to develop insights for their senior leadership and teams. Portfolio Manager stress tests portfolios of insurance and reinsurance risks against a range of systemic cyber-related ... Read the full article
AGCS promotes new regional head of cyber in North America
10th March 2022
Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty (AGCS) has promoted Tresa Stephens to region head of cyber for tech and media in North America. Stephens will begin her new role on 1 April and will be succeeding Thomas Kang. Joe Caruso, regional head of financial lines for north America, whom Stephens will be reporting ... Read the full article
ProExec partners with CyberCube’s Broking Manager
10th March 2022
ProExec, a part of RT Specialty, the wholesale broking division of Ryan Specialty Group, has partnered with CyberCube’s Broking Manager, the cyber risk analytics platform for insurance intermediaries, to further enable RT ProExec’s team to quantify and explain to its retailers and their clients the sources and potential financial impacts ... Read the full article
Russia-Ukraine war to increase cyber-related claims?
9th March 2022
The fallout from the war between Russia and Ukraine following the former’s invasion of the latter could increase cyber-related insurance and reinsurance claims within Europe and North America, according to a new note from DBRS Morningstar. The note says that considering the number of cyberattacks having ‘materially increased’ and the tightening ... Read the full article
CyberCube advises stress testing of portfolios with eastern European business
4th March 2022
CyberCube has released a new report saying that insurers and reinsurers should stress test their portfolios if they hold eastern European business, following the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. The company has released a new report called War in Ukraine creates fundamental shift in the cyber threat landscape that presents eight ... Read the full article
Cowbell Cyber appoints chief insurance officer
2nd March 2022
Cowbell Cyber has appointed a new chief insurance officer in Kara Owens. Owens’s appointment, nearly four years after she was hired by Markel to lead its global cyber executive, will see her oversee reinsurance partnerships, and risk and portfolio management, as well as driving new product development and innovation. It ... Read the full article
Russian cyberattacks may test insurer war exclusion language: Fitch Ratings
2nd March 2022
The risk of cyberattacks has increased following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and may test the effectiveness of ‘war exclusion’ and ‘hostile act exclusion’ language in policies, says Fitch Ratings. A new note from the agency says that the wording, already under greater scrutiny following a recent court ruling that found an ... Read the full article
CFC names Philippa Berry as Cyber Product Leader
1st March 2022
CFC has promoted Philippa Berry to the role of Cyber Product Leader, where she will contribute to CFC’s cyber underwriting strategy and oversee a variety of cyber-related special projects. She holds over 10 years of experience in the London market, much of which has been spent focused on cyber, and has ... Read the full article
Aon hit by cyber attack
28th February 2022
Global insurance and reinsurance broker Aon was hit by a cyber attack on February 25th, 2022, according to an 8-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S. In its filing, Aon states that it identified a cyber incident impacting a limited number of systems. In response, Aon promptly ... Read the full article
Gallagher Re partners with BitSight to deliver cyber-modelling insights
28th February 2022
Global reinsurance broker Gallagher Re and BitSight have collaborated to integrate BitSight cybersecurity data with Gallagher Re’s reinsurance insights and analytics. The partnership will provide reinsurance clients with a holistic view of security performance and supply chain aggregation within their portfolios, giving them a comprehensive and differentiated understanding of cyber risk ... Read the full article