Now may be the time to review your cyber risk mitigation strategy and give serious consideration to whether the financial cost of cyber attacks could be transferred to insurers at a fair price.
Cyber security is amongst the leading risks for organisations around the globe. In the last few years most organisations have suffered cyber attacks of some sort and a series of notable breaches have received heavy media coverage and regulatory scrutiny. Breaches damage not only organisations but also their customers.
Governments have started to wake-up to the potential national security and economic impact of cyber attacks, and legislative change is afoot in a number of jurisdictions.
To date relatively few organisations (outside the US) have purchased standalone cyber insurance policies. That appears about to change. For more from our Insurance team, click here.
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