Cyber Risk Underwriters

Jeffrey Smith

InSecurity Podcast: Stanton Gatewood and Jeffrey Smith Discuss Whether Cyber Insurance is Really a Thing

This episode is about cybersecurity insurance. We’ll discuss what it means to have it, what it means to need it, and whether it is even a real thing. Don’t worry, we’re not going to spend the episode selling insurance to you. But we feel it’s important to do a show about it, because the truth …

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Beyond Antivirus & Firewalls: Easy & Cost-Effective SME Cyber Security Solutions Agents Need To Know

Unlike traditional business risks such as fire and workers’ compensation, the cyber risk landscape continues to evolve. As with any relationship, agents must first establish trust and address risks honestly, educate and provide practical and usable recommendations to insured’s to minimize risk. To do so, agents must expand information security knowledge. Those who don’t, risk …

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Hack Yourself First: Trends in Cyber Insurance for Small to Medium Enterprise

Tech-based cyber risk solutions combined with insurance coverage improvements help agents improve close ratios. Almost six in 10 small and medium-size enterprises (SMEs) do not purchase any type of cyber insurance. Only 33% purchase stand-alone coverage.   Less than 15% of SMEs are trust currently used cyber defenses to detect and respond to cyber-attacks with two-thirds …

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Why Mid-Market Healthcare Providers Need Stand-Alone Cyber Cover

Cyber Insurance: Mid-Market Healthcare Providers: Endpoints, Medjacking, Security Budgets & HIPAA An attack surface is the sum of all the endpoints of entry that an attacker can breach your environment. In a healthcare setting, endpoints go well beyond workstations, laptops, PDA’s and cell phones to include digital medical devices and software. “Medjacking” is the hijacking of …

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RAND on Cyber Insurance Pricing…”in some cases the carrier would appear to guess..”

So we just finished reading a very deep dive by Rand called “Content Analysis of Cyber Insurance Policies:  How do carriers write policies and price cyber risk?”  The depth of the analysis is significant including discussion of pricing “boxes”, increased limits factors, and security factor weighting.  When all was said and done, our favorite excerpts …

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Negligent employees are no. 1 cause of cybersecurity breaches at small to middle market enterprises.

Careless workers and poor passwords have led to a rise in ransomware attacks and other breaches on SMBs, which cost an average of $1 million. Negligent employees are the no. 1 cause of data breaches at small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) across North America and the UK, according to a new study from Keeper Security and the …

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