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Insurance CIO Outlook | Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Cybersecurity insurance can safeguard firms against a wide variety of cyber incidents and encourage them to improve their security capabilities.
FREMONT, CA: Cybersecurity is increasingly being stressed by businesses today, to stay safe from online attacks. The attacks demonstrate the vulnerable nature of the online world where the act of storing data and information must be backed by strong security infrastructures. According to a report, 55 percent of small businesses have suffered data breaches. Increasingly, cybersecurity insurance is gaining popularity as it covers businesses against the effects of online attacks.
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Cybersecurity insurance can be procured as a first-party product that aims at mitigating the costs that are levied upon the holder of a policy. It is designed to cover losses resulting from various cyber incidents such as business interruptions, data breaches, and network damage. Further, a robust cybersecurity insurance market can offset the number of successful cyber attacks. The increased coverage will encourage the adoption of preventive measures. Basing premiums on an insured's standard of self-protection will also promote the implementation of best security practices.
Conventional general liability and property insurance policies do not cover cyber risks in their terms. Thus, cybersecurity insurance has emerged as an independent line of coverage covering losses that businesses may experience or cause to others. There are also a few cybersecurity insurance policies that provide coverage against any bodily harm or physical damage that could be a result of a successful cyberattack against critical infrastructure.
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A cyber incident data repository is another tool that can create a trusted environment for business risk owners to anonymously share critical cyber incident data. The idea is to aggregate and analyze the data to raise awareness about present cyber risk conditions as well as future trends. Innovative analytics products incorporated in such a repository will allow the private and public sector organizations to proceed with more informed cyber risk management investments. The insights can also assist in refining the data that are being used for analysis in the cyber incident data repository.
Thus, a well-structured insurance policy can offset the financial loss and offer another layer of security to the firms.
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