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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.
Munich Re plans to retain 10% share of cyber market
1st July 2019
Munich Re has revealed that it plans to continue focusing more of its business on the growing cyber re/insurance market, with the aim of retaining its current 10% share. The re/insurer earned premium volume of almost US $500 million from cyber coverage in 2018, equally split between primary insurance and reinsurance. Munich ... Read the full article
Beazley adds two cyber, tech underwriters in US
28th June 2019
Specialist insurer Beazley has added Jennifer Beard and Matt Gullickson - two cyber & technology underwriters - to its US operations. The appointments were made to meet a growing demand from middle market businesses for insurance cover for cyber, data security and privacy exposures. Beard joins from Chubb, where she spent 12 ... Read the full article
Email outage could cause multi-billion dollar insured losses
24th June 2019
Analysis by predictive cyber risk modelling firm, Kovrr highlights the potential for significant insurance and reinsurance industry losses as a result of an email service outage in the UK. According to statistics, some 290 billion emails are sent every day across the world by around 3.9 billion users. While the numbers ... Read the full article
“Little evidence” that reinsurance will respond to silent cyber events: GC’s Siobhan O’Brien
20th June 2019
There continues to be “little evidence” that reinsurance programs will respond as planned to a silent cyber event, despite recent regulatory efforts that have aimed to quantify exposure. This is according to Siobhan O’Brien, Head of the Cyber Center of Excellence for International and Global Specialties at Guy Carpenter, who outlined ... Read the full article
Hiscox releases free-to-use Cyber Exposure Calculator tool
18th June 2019
Global specialist insurer Hiscox has announced the launch of its Cyber Exposure Calculator, an online tool designed to help companies estimate the potential financial impact of a cyber attack. The calculator, which is free to use, provides a number of insights into the types of cyber attacks a business may face. Results ... Read the full article
US cyber premiums up 10% to $2.03bn in 2018: Aon study
17th June 2019
A new study by global re/insurance brokerage Aon indicates that cyber premiums grew to just over $2 billion in 2018, roughly a 10% increase from the prior year. Premiums from package business grew modestly, rising 6% year on year, while standalone cyber premiums grew 14%. Premiums for small commercial-focused cyber insurers ... Read the full article
Cyber insurance to drive innovation, take industry by storm: Appleby’s Tim Faries
14th June 2019
The structures and products developed to tackle cyber risk over the next five years will take the global re/insurance market by storm and drive forward innovation, according to Tim Faries, Bermuda Managing Partner at global law firm Appleby. In a conversation with Faries at Appleby’s Bermuda offices, he explained how the ... Read the full article
Aspen Insurance launches cyber risk management platform
14th June 2019
Aspen Insurance, the insurance arm of Bermudian re/insurer Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, has announced the launch of its cyber risk management platform SSIMPLE. The SSIMPLE platform includes existing components of Aspen’s Apex insurance policy and incident response capabilities, and is designed to help clients prevent, detect and respond to privacy and ... Read the full article
Reinsurance backstops are key to addressing systemic cyber risk: EastWest Institute
13th June 2019
A new report from the EastWest Institute has argued that the creation of government backstops in the form of private reinsurance pools will be one of the key pillars in enabling the insurance industry to guard against systemic cyber risk and avoid catastrophic losses. The non-profit thinktank suggested that such an ... Read the full article
Cyber insurer Coalition adds Aon’s Brian Specht as Head of Affinity
12th June 2019
Swiss Re and Argo-backed cyber insurer Coalition has announced the addition of Brian Specht as Head of Affinity. Specht - who will be based in New York City and Austin, Texas - joins with 30 years’ experience and has served with companies such as Aon, Ryan Specialty Group, AIG and Chubb. Prior ... Read the full article
Howden partners with Cytegic on automated cyber risk assessment
11th June 2019
Howden, the retail broking unit of Hyperion Insurance Group, has partnered with Cytegic, a cyber risk quantification solutions provider, on automated cyber risk assessments and financial impact analysis across global markets. “After researching numerous solutions and putting the Cytegic platform through a variety of challenging tests, we were able to confirm ... Read the full article
BMS bolsters cyber offering with BitSight partnership
11th June 2019
Independent specialist re/insurance broker BMS Group has partnered with BitSight, a cyber security ratings firm, to provide cyber risk analysis services to clients across all lines of business as part of its consultancy offering. BitSight’s security ratings platform provides comprehensive security performance information available in the marketplace and marks the first ... Read the full article
DAC Beachcroft adds virtual crisis room to cyber breach response services
10th June 2019
International law firm DAC Beachcroft has enhanced its breach response services with the launch of a secure, virtual crisis room that enables businesses to communicate and share information confidentially in the aftermath of a cyber attack or data breach. Developed in partnership with British technology firm Pushfor, the DACB Situation Room ... Read the full article
IUA adds exclusion clauses for silent cyber risks
6th June 2019
The International Underwriting Association (IUA) has published two new London Market model clauses to help underwriters manage cyber losses and address issues related to non-affirmative cover. The Cyber Loss Absolute Exclusion Clause provides re/insurers with an option to exclude any loss arising from the use of a computer system, network or ... Read the full article
Norsk Hydro expecting $69m hit from cyber attack
6th June 2019
The cyber attack that hit aluminium manufacturing giant Norsk Hydro in March could cost the company as much as $69 million over the first two quarters of 2019. Norsk Hydro had previously disclosed that it expected to lose between NOK400 million and NOK450 million (US$46 million and $52 million). According to ... Read the full article
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