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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 member firm HSB announces cyber cover for farmers
17th May 2019
Munich Re member firm The Hartford Steam Boiler has announced a new cyber solution designed to help protect farmers and farm technology from hackers, malware and other cyber attacks. HSB Farm Cyber Insurance protects farmers against cyber attacks involving computers and electronic devices located on the farm premises, including the farm ... Read the full article
Beazley develops affirmative cyber cover for marine risks
15th May 2019
Specialist insurer Beazley has developed a new affirmative cyber insurance product for the marine space, designed to protect vessel owners and operators. The product, called Beazley Cyber Defence for Marine, will provide insurance for physical damage and loss of hire in the event that a cyber incident impacts a vessel’s operational ... Read the full article
AXIS partners with cyber startup accelerator CyLon
14th May 2019
Bermuda-based insurance and reinsurance firm AXIS Capital Holdings has announced a new partnership with cyber security startup accelerator CyLon. The partnership, which aims to inform and educate cyber security startups on the threats and opportunities unique to the space, will see the two firms work together with startups entering the CyLon ... Read the full article
SCOR CEO calls for cyber ‘Richter scale’: reports
13th May 2019
The re/insurance industry must act together with the relevant authorities and design a common, global scale with which to accurately assess cyber loss events, according to Denis Kessler, the Chief Executive of French reinsurance giant SCOR. “It would be very helpful to have measurement and modeling tools,” Kessler added, suggesting something ... Read the full article
CNA Hardy adds new features to cyber offering
13th May 2019
Specialist commercial insurer CNA Hardy has added a number of features to its cyber proposition, including a new pre-breach service and additional coverages. The company’s policy now includes cover for impersonation fraud and social engineering, which it considers to be one of the biggest exposures for businesses. Existing and new policyholders in ... Read the full article
Munich Re partners with Curv on digital asset insurance
10th May 2019
Munich Re has announced a new partnership with Curv, a cryptography firm for the digital economy, to provide insurance protection of up to $50m for digital assets in Curv's Institutional Digital Asset Wallet Service. The arrangement will provide Curv with the financial capability to pay for losses of crypto assets, with ... Read the full article
Arch Insurance steps into cyber market with SME product
30th April 2019
Arch Insurance (UK), a division of Arch Insurance International, is entering the cyber insurance market with ‘Cyber Searchlight’, a product designed for small to medium enterprise (SME) clients. Due to be launched at BIBA 2019, Cyber Searchlight aims to provide policy structures more appropriately suited for the needs of SMEs in ... Read the full article
Norsk Hydro updates cyber attack loss estimate to $52mn
30th April 2019
Norwegian aluminium manufacturer Norsk Hydro has provided an updated loss estimate of NOK 400-450 million (USD $46-52 million) for the cyber attack in March that caused major disruption to its operations. Norsk Hydro had previously disclosed that it expected to lose 300-350 Norwegian crowns (USD $35-41 million) for the first ... Read the full article
Cyber insurance surges as risk awareness grows: Marsh report
29th April 2019
Over the last five years, the number of Marsh’s US clients purchasing cyber insurance has doubled, from 19% in 2014 to 38% in 2018, according to a new report by the global re/insurance broker. The report indicates that as risk awareness has grown, cyber insurance products have evolved to address a ... Read the full article
Brit adds features to physical damage cyber offering
26th April 2019
Global specialty re/insurer Brit Ltd has added a number of new features to its Brit Cyber Attack Plus (BCAP) product, which is designed to protect clients from the impact of physical damage arising from cyber attacks. BCAP has now been substantially built out, Brit said, offering physical damage cover due to ... Read the full article
AXA XL adds cover for cyber business interruption
25th April 2019
AXA XL, a division of French insurance and investment giant AXA, has designed a new first-party cyber insurance option to help businesses in the U.S address interruption resulting from a cyber attack. The new cyber option, which is available to businesses that buy 100% of their property coverage from AXA XL, ... Read the full article
Number of compromised business emails rise 133%: Beazley cyber report
15th April 2019
Business email compromises (BEC) made up 24% of the total number of cyber related incidents reported to Beazley Breach Response (BBR) Services in 2018, up from 13% in 2017, according to a report by the specialist re/insurer. BEC are social engineering attacks in which a cybercriminal uses compromised email credentials or ... Read the full article
Cyber criminals increasingly targeting SMEs: Chubb report
9th April 2019
Small and medium sized enterprises are increasingly falling victim to cyber attacks orchestrated by hackers able to take advantage of their sub-par security systems and processes, according to a report by global insurer Chubb. Ransomware attacks, which typically utilise malicious software to block a business' network until a ransom is paid, ... Read the full article
Partnerships essential for cyber insurance success, says GlobalData
4th April 2019
While cyber insurance penetration increased by 14% among UK small and medium sized businesses (SMEs) in 2018, the market is far from saturated and considerable growth should be expected over the coming years, according to a report published by data and analytics firm GlobalData. GlobalData believes that the complexity and continuous ... Read the full article
LockerGoga ransomware threatens industrial firms with “chaos,” say experts
3rd April 2019
LockerGoga, the strain of ransomware that is suspected to be behind the recent Norsk Hydro cyber attack, utilises an unusually disruptive hacking approach that can cause “chaos” for the industrial firms that it targets, according to cyber experts. Norsk Hydro, a Norway-based aluminium manufacturing, was forced to disable part of ... Read the full article
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