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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.
Shift towards asset-light economy is transformative, says Flandro
22nd April 2021
The shift towards an asset-light global economy has been described as transformative by HX Analytics managing director David Flandro, in a Howden report that highlights the rise of intangibles and the subsequent challenges this brings to re/insurers. “Intangible - and largely uninsured - exposures are becoming more substantive. The rise of ... Read the full article
Will there ever be an oversupply of cyber capacity, asks Gallagher Re white paper
16th April 2021
Gallagher Re's global head of cyber Ian Newman has questioned whether the cyber risk market will ever be short of capital, in a white paper examining the broader implications for the industry. “The principal ingredient required for softening a market is an oversupply of capacity, but cyber has to date not ... Read the full article
Gallagher Re to launch dedicated cyber reinsurance team in Bermuda
12th April 2021
Specialist broker Gallagher Re has announced the formation of a new cyber reinsurance specialism in Bermuda, as the company looks to expand its global cyber practice. The new team will be led by specialist cyber broker Seb Plummer and is aimed at enhancing support for local clients while helping expand cyber ... Read the full article
MS Exchange attacks could drive thousands of claims: CyberCube
12th April 2021
Cyber analytics provider CyberCube has warned re/insurers of the potential for a large volume of claims resulting from recent cyber attacks by criminals on the servers running Microsoft’s email services. Tens of thousands of Microsoft Exchange servers in businesses and organisations around the world could have been infected during a series ... Read the full article
Mosaic announces cyber underwriting team
29th March 2021
Global specialty insurance company Mosaic will begin underwriting cyber insurance globally next month through teams based in Chicago and London. Mosaic’s Cybersecurity & Privacy coverage is designed to protect diverse industry types and focus on supporting insureds’ abilities to prevent an attack and to also respond and minimise damage in the ... Read the full article
S&P advocates for stand-alone cyber products
26th March 2021
Analysts at S&P Global Ratings have argued that the development of stand-alone cyber insurance products would benefit both re/insurers and policyholders. In a new report, the rating agency noted that cyber cover is often bundled into existing property or liability insurance policies, and in some cases, the policies do not explicitly ... Read the full article
WTW launches cyber solution for Power & Utilities industry
24th March 2021
Global re/insurance broker Willis Towers Watson has launched a new type of cyber insurance cover designed specifically for Power & Utilities companies. WTW says CyNat has been developed to specifically cover the key industry exposures rather than trying to modify pre-existing generic cyber products. The solution includes crisis management costs, business interruption ... Read the full article
AXIS and Elpha Secure enter cyber insurance partnership
17th March 2021
AXIS Insurance, the specialty insurance business segment of AXIS Capital Holdings, and Elpha Secure, a cyber security company have entered a strategic partnership to provide cyber insurance and software protection to small businesses to help improve their cyber security. Elpha Secure offers Elphaware, a Software as a Service (SaaS) application used ... Read the full article
Data breaches threaten $223bn of top brands’ value, finds report
16th March 2021
A joint cybersecurity and brand value impact report by consulting firms Infosys and Interbrand has found that up to $223 billion of the brand value of the world’s largest brands could be at risk from a data breach. To quantify this risk, Infosys and Interbrand identified the brand factors most impacted ... Read the full article
There’s more to do but demand for cyber reinsurance is growing: Chatterjee, Envelop Risk
12th March 2021
In a recent interview with Reinsurance News, Ari Chatterjee from Envelop Risk discussed how the cyber re/insurance market has changed in recent years and why demand for protection is projected to rise. “The development of the cyber reinsurance market actually sped up quite a lot in the recent past and one ... Read the full article
Munich Re backs cybersecurity service by Deep Instinct
12th March 2021
Munich Re is backing a new performance guarantee and ransomware warranty from cybersecurity specialist Deep Instinct. Following a due diligence on Deep Instinct’s technology, Munich Re decided to provide insurance for the guarantee and warranty via its new product, aiSure. Deep Instinct says the backing will enable it to guarantee the performance ... Read the full article
Swiss Re CorSo and Coalition deepen collaboration
12th March 2021
Global reinsurer Swiss Re's commercial insurance arm, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, has entered into a new multi-year agreement with cyber insurance and security firm, Coalition, to provide broad cyber insurance and technology errors & omissions insurance to SMEs throughout the U.S. and Canada. Coalition launched back in 2017 with backing ... Read the full article
Cowbell Cyber raises $20mn in Series A funding round
11th March 2021
AI-powered cyber insurer Cowbell has closed a $20 Million Series A funding round as it looks to scale its offering for continuous underwriting and closed-loop risk management. Cowbell Cyber’s closed-loop approach to cyber risk bundles cybersecurity awareness training, continuous risk assessment, and pre and post-breach risk improvement services. Brewer Lane Ventures led ... Read the full article
COVID-19, sustainability key insurance themes for 2021: GlobalData
9th March 2021
Data and analytics firm GlobalData expects COVID-19 to be far and away the most important theme for the insurance industry in 2021, but that sustainability will continue to be an essential long-term issue. GlobalData insurance analyst Ben Carey-Evans states COVID-19 will change markets and transform consumer behavior as consumers and businesses ... Read the full article
Munich Re, AGCS & Google Cloud partner on cyber insurance solution
2nd March 2021
Munich Re, Allianz Global Corporate and Specialty (AGCS) and Google Cloud have announced a collaboration designed to provide customers with increased cloud security and potentially bring down costs. The Risk Protection Program builds on Google Cloud's engineered-in security toolset and consists of two parts. First, a diagnostic tool called Risk Manager enables ... Read the full article
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