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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.
QBE appoints Insaf Idelhaj as Senior Manager, Cyber Services & Risk Engineering
15th October 2025
Commercial insurer QBE has announced the appointment of Insaf Idelhaj to the newly created role of Senior Manager – Cyber Services and Risk Engineering, supporting the delivery of QBE’s cyber insurance growth strategy. Based in Paris, Idelhaj has joined QBE’s global cyber services team and will report to Dominic Keller, Global ... Read the full article
Boards confident in cyber resilience, yet preparedness often lags: Willis
8th October 2025
Corporate boards express confidence in their cyber readiness, yet board-level data tells a different story, showing that losses are longer, broader, and costlier than leaders expect, according to a recent report by Willis, a WTW business. Willis’ Cyber in Focus 2025 report draws on over 4,650 global cyber claims and board-level ... Read the full article
HSB to protect small businesses with new cyber insurance & incident response solution
7th October 2025
HSB, a specialist engineering and technology insurer, has announced the launch of HSB CyberPro, a cyber insurance and incident response solution designed for micro and small businesses in the UK and Ireland with revenues of up to £10 million. Despite a rise in cyber security awareness among businesses, a recent HSB ... Read the full article
CFC appoints John Keebler and Morgan Justice to US cyber team
7th October 2025
CFC, a specialist insurance provider focused on emerging risks and cyber, has established a new US-based cyber development team and expanded its regional presence with the appointments of John Keebler and Morgan Justice. CFC has named Keebler as its new National Cyber Development Leader. Based in Chicago, he will work closely ... Read the full article
Coalition Re unveils new early detection system for potential cyber exposures
7th October 2025
Coalition Re, the standalone cyber reinsurance intermediary of Coalition, has announced its Live Event Response offering, a new reporting capability that alerts cedants when policyholders may be exposed to an unfolding cyber event, such as a zero-day vulnerability. Diana Liu, Coalition Re’s Head of Underwriting, commented, “Most recently, we notified our ... Read the full article
Cyber insurance should complement, not replace, cybersecurity: FERMA
6th October 2025
A new Federation of European Risk Management Associations (FERMA) report, produced in partnership with Marsh and Howden, has reinforced the message that cyber insurance should not be seen as a replacement for robust cybersecurity measures, but should rather act as a "complementary tool" to help organisations manage and transfer financial ... Read the full article
Chaucer launches new cyber risk management and insurance solution
6th October 2025
Chaucer Group, a global specialty insurance and reinsurance group, has launched Vanguard, a new cyber risk management and insurance solution designed to protect organisations against an increasingly complex and evolving threat landscape. The offering focuses on complex businesses across a wide range of industry sectors, with available limits of up to ... Read the full article
Standardised metrics needed to close $0.9tn cyber risk protection gap: Zurich
2nd October 2025
With the world facing a $0.9 trillion cyber risk protection gap, Zurich is calling for the adoption of standardised national cyber security metrics to close it, which would involve the collaboration between governments and the private sector. This gap highlights the vast difference between economic losses from cyber events and the ... Read the full article
CyberCube secures over $180m investment from Spectrum Equity
1st October 2025
CyberCube, a provider of cyber risk analytics for the re/insurance industry, has secured a sizeable investment of over $180 million from Spectrum Equity, a new cornerstone investor, which will be used to fuel the future development of the firm's products and solutions to quantify cyber exposures. Spectrum Equity, a growth equity ... Read the full article
Cyber premium growth slows, though long-term outlook still promising: Moody’s
30th September 2025
Increased competition and stagnating demand, especially in the US, are decelerating the pace of premium growth in the global cyber insurance market for the second year in a row, Moody’s said in a new report. Citing Munich Re data, Moody's said that gross premiums written in the global cyber insurance market ... Read the full article
Howden urges cyber premium pool growth in softening market cycle
24th September 2025
A new report from Howden has underlined the urgent need for scaled cyber risk transfer in Europe, where increasingly complex and costly threats collide with low insurance uptake, while also highlighting the strong return on investment from effective risk management and cyber insurance. This comes as part of the global insurance ... Read the full article
Third-party cyber risks among most significant threats to operational resilience: Acrisure
23rd September 2025
A new report authored by Acrisure’s James Morgan has highlighted the rising threat of cyber-attacks on key third-party vendors and their potential to trigger widespread operational disruption and financial losses across multiple businesses. The new report is centred around the recent cyberattack on Collins Aerospace, a major aviation technology provider owned ... Read the full article
Lockton Re adopts CyberCube’s Exposure Manager
22nd September 2025
Lockton Re, the reinsurance arm of the privately held independent insurance broker, has adopted CyberCube’s newly launched product, Exposure Manager (XM). The company is the first reinsurance broker to adopt the product, which aims to "revolutionise the way re/insurers assess risk and evaluate the health of cyber portfolios." Earlier this month, ... Read the full article
Ed Le Flufy becomes Lockton Re’s Global Head of Cyber
19th September 2025
Lockton Re, the reinsurance arm of the privately held independent insurance broker, has announced the appointment of Ed Le Flufy as Global Head of Cyber, a London-based role. In his new role, the executive will lead Lockton Re's Cyber team drive the further development, and focus on building a multi-disciplinary Global ... Read the full article
DUAL Europe strengthens cyber business with new regional structure
17th September 2025
DUAL Europe has announced a newly aligned regional structure for cyber, alongside a series of strategic leadership appointments, reinforcing its position in the cyber insurance market and strengthening support for brokers and clients across Europe. Marek Stanislawski has been appointed as Head of Business Development, Cyber Europe, effective 3rd September 2025. ... Read the full article
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