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Cyber insurance and reinsurance news, covering the growth of cyber reinsurance underwriting, the risks faced, major loss events and cyber reinsurance product development trends.
Cyber risk is an emerging and fast-growing class of insurance and reinsurance business, so our cyber insurance news follows industry trends and reports on what is happening in the cyber underwriting market.
Growing loss complexity driving loss adjusting innovation: Cunningham Lindsey
6th June 2017
The evolution of the risk transfer landscape, underlined by increasingly complex insured losses, is driving greater innovation in loss adjusting, according to recent analysis from Cunningham Lindsey. Loss adjusting, claims management, and risk solutions firm, Cunningham Lindsey, has produced its 2017 Major and Complex Loss Review, which reveals increased innovation in loss adjusting ... Read the full article
Chief Risk Officers need to update skills for re/insurer’s success
6th June 2017
Chief Risk Officers (CROs) are "integral to the future success of insurance companies,” but need to develop a new set of strategic skills to match demands of the future, according to a joint report by Mazar, accounting and advisory services firm and risk technology research firm, Chartis Research, which found ... Read the full article
Re/insurers need proactive cyber development and marketing strategies: Inga Beale
5th June 2017
Speaking at Mexico's AMIS Insurance Conference, Lloyd's Inga Beale reiterated the urgency of getting aboard the cyber insurance market, which she said could triple in size to $7.5 billion by 2020. "I don’t think that, as a sector, we are doing enough to promote the benefits of cyber insurance and make ... Read the full article
Increasing regulation on data breaches to spur cyber re/insurance growth: RBC
2nd June 2017
Cyber has been hailed as the re/insurance shooting star with the potential to more than double in size by 2020 - nothing brings more promise to the industry then this emerging market space. Although growth so far has stemmed mostly from the U.S. cyber market, RBC said in a recent report ... Read the full article
Cyber risk aggregation a threat to re/insurer solvency
1st June 2017
While underwriting cyber risks is seen as one of the biggest opportunities in insurance and reinsurance right now, the risks to re/insurers could be equally large. Cyber attacks such as the recent WannaCry ransomware have clearly demonstrated that self-propagating cyber exploits could become major sources of aggregated losses for the insurance ... Read the full article
Cyber, the innovative opportunity for the London market: Bousfield, Capsicum Re
30th May 2017
There's been notable concern across the global insurance and reinsurance industry of London's ability to maintain its position as an international re/insurance hub in an increasingly competitive and post-Brexit world, but could the cyber reinsurance market be the perfect opportunity for London to embrace? Discussing the growing threat of cyber in relation ... Read the full article
Re/insurance challenges and opportunities of the future: EY
26th May 2017
As the re/insurance industry enters an era marked by shifting inner dynamics and fast-paced changes to macroeconomic conditions, EY analysts have outlined the unique challenges and opportunities set to create the market of the future. EY said the key long-term determinants of this changing scape were down largely to demographic shifts, policy ... Read the full article
Critical infrastructure the next cyber battleground
25th May 2017
As cyber threats increase, alongside the exponential advancements being seen in technology which can heighten cyber risk there is also an increasing threat to legacy systems, particularly in areas such as critical infrastructure, according to experts. It is expected that cyber attacks against critical infrastructure, power grids and energy infrastructure, telecommunications, ... Read the full article
Re/insurance to take minimal share of $8 billion WannaCry economic loss: A.M. Best
23rd May 2017
Insurance industry focused cyber-security firm, Cyence, has pegged the WannaCry ransomware attack economic loss at an estimated $8 billion, although insurance and reinsurance protection is expected to cover just a fraction of this, warns A.M. Best. The recent, global ransomware attack that impacted 150 countries and that was felt across a number of ... Read the full article
Average cyber limit doubles & penetration levels increasing: CIAB
22nd May 2017
A number of factors continue to converge in the global cyber insurance space resulting in increased demand, while the average cyber policy limit has roughly doubled in the last six months, according to The Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers (CIAB). The CIAB's latest Cyber Insurance Market Watch Survey highlights some ... Read the full article
WannaCry was the first true cyber catastrophe event: RMS
19th May 2017
RMS cyber risk management expert, Tom Harvey, called the recent WannaCry ransomware attack that hit businesses across the globe the world's "first ever cyber-catastrophe," he told Reinsurance News it demonstrates the systemic nature of the risk with "a single vulnerability resulting in hundreds of thousands of infected machines across over ... Read the full article
WannaCry could be a catalyst for a new approach to cyber risks: Sciemus
17th May 2017
The global cyber attack caused by the virulent new strain of self-replicating ransomware known as Wanna Decryptor, WannaCry, or WCry, could be just the catalyst that the insurance and reinsurance market needs to stimulate a new approach to cyber risks, according to experts at Sciemus. The WannaCry ransomware has impacted more ... Read the full article
Ransomware attacks spur cyber demand, could be a $14bn market: Fitch
16th May 2017
As we wrote yesterday, the recent cyber attacks that struck more than 150 countries across the globe with ransomware will stimulate new demand for cyber insurance and reinsurance coverage, and Fitch Ratings agrees, saying today that re/insurers are in a unique position to respond to assist customers faced by ... Read the full article
Novae adds to cyber line-up
16th May 2017
Lloyd's re/insurer Novae has added a new hire to its cyber insurance team, hiring Stuart Quick who was previously with IBM’s UK&I Cyber Security consulting practice. Quick joins Novae's cyber team as Breach Response and Cyber Operations Manager, and will report directly to Dan Trueman, Head of Cyber and Chief Innovation ... Read the full article
Global ransomware attack highlights the growing need for cyber re/insurance
15th May 2017
Last weekend's devastating global ransomware attack has refocused attention on the need to mitigate against growing risks of cyber threat with greater protection and re/insurance cover, and prompted a cybersecurity stock purchase by European investors. The cyber attack locked up more than 200,000 computers in over 150 countries - disrupting hospitals, businesses, ... Read the full article
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