All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 16 2018 // AXIS Capital Holdings Ltd. has launched the AXIS Cyber Center of Excellence, which aims to provide commercial insurance products and solutions for mitigating cyber risks.The AXIS Cyber Center of Excellence is intended to...
Apr 16 2018 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Group added Betty Shepherd as divisional senior vice president of Cyber Liability.She will oversee the company’s cyber initiatives and existing cyber underwriting...
Apr 16 2018 // Risk managers are very concerned about the cyber risks facing their companies and are heavily investing in protection against cyber attacks with the blessings of their boards and CEOs, a major shift from even just 10 years...
Apr 13 2018 // Cyberattacks are an increasingly common threat to business, with risk officers listing cybersecurity as their greatest concern and more than 2,200 confirmed data breaches in 2017, according to a new report from Verizon....
Apr 13 2018 // West Virginia sued Equifax Inc on Thursday for failing to safeguard consumer information of hundreds of thousands of state residents and for delaying alerting the public to a breach that exposed the personal data of about...
Apr 12 2018 // Chubb has put two decades worth of its own commercial cyber claims data into an online index that shows the cyber threats for organizations based on their size and industry.Access to the new proprietary online Chubb Cyber...
Apr 11 2018 // Barbican Insurance Group announced the launch of a product partnership with two cyber risk management specialists to help insureds assess and improve their cyber resilience.Called Barbican Cyber...
Apr 11 2018 // The rapidly emerging and evolving world of cyber risk poses a paradox for property/casualty insurers, according to two panelists addressing “Risk Selection in Cyber Insurance” at the Casualty Actuarial...
Apr 10 2018 // Fake news threatens U.K. businesses with reputational damage as well as falling sales and share prices, adding to the growing risk from cyber attacks facing companies from local Indian restaurants to...
Apr 9 2018 // Specialist insurance provider CFC has released a new version of its cyber insurance product for U.S. healthcare providers.The latest policy enhances CFC’s combined cover for privacy and operational disruption with...
Apr 6 2018 // Risk managers are very concerned about the cyber risks facing their companies and are heavily investing in protection against cyber attacks with the blessings of their boards and CEOs, a major shift from even just 10 years...
Apr 6 2018 // CyberPolicy, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CoverHound Inc. that offers an online cyber insurance and security product for small businesses, has unveiled a new set of complimentary offerings to help small businesses protect...
Apr 5 2018 // Department store chain Sears Holding Corp. and Delta Air Lines Inc. said on Wednesday some of their customer payment information may have been exposed in a cyber security breach at software service provider [ 24]7.ai.Sears...
Apr 5 2018 // Massachusetts can move forward with a lawsuit accusing credit reporting firm Equifax Inc. of failing to safeguard its databases or provide prompt notice of a breach that exposed the personal data of 147 million people, a...
Apr 5 2018 // Delegated authority specialist and Lloyd’s Broker Endeavour Insurance Services has launched a new cyber security coverage program, Ensconce, designed to protect manufacturers from the risk of physical damage caused...
Apr 3 2018 // Maryland’s largest health insurer says a phishing attack may have exposed the personal information of nearly 7,000 members. News outlets report CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield said Friday that an employee’s...
Apr 2 2018 // Everest Re Group, Ltd. has launched Everest Insurance Cyber Elevation Insurance Policy, which provides comprehensive cyber coverage and risk mitigation and remediation services to companies across all industry...
Apr 2 2018 // Atlanta’s top officials holed up in their offices on Saturday as they worked to restore critical systems knocked out by a nine-day-old cyber attack that plunged the Southeastern U.S. metropolis into technological...
Apr 2 2018 // Insurance Journal examined industries experiencing changes, challenges, expansions and growth in the past year. Here are five industry sectors and insurance markets that could offer opportunities for agents and brokers in...
Mar 28 2018 // Atlanta’s mayor says the city continues to operate despite ongoing troubles caused by a cyberattack on its computer network last week.City officials announced Thursday that the city’s computer network had been...