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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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How to Get Executive Support for Your Next Information Governance Initiative

AIIM

Back in 2017, I called up a few of the information governance friends I’d made through the AIIM Community to better understand the challenges they were up against. Four years later, we're finally seeing this shift in governance mindsets in nearly every AIIM member organization we speak with. Hurdles to Information Governance Success.

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How to make sure your cyber insurance policy pays out

IT Governance

Cyber insurance is big business these days. Damages incurred by information security incidents generally aren’t covered in commercial insurance policies, so a specific policy is necessary to help cover the costs of things like forensic investigation, incident response and notification procedures. Document an incident response plan.

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How to Protect Your Organisation from a Cyber Attack

IT Governance

Organisations should prepare for these attacks by implementing robust cyber security controls and ensuring that employees know how to manage cyber security controls. Cyber Essentials is a UK government-backed framework supported by the NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre). Why Cyber Insurance is Essential in 2022.

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How to Manage Your Cyber Risks

IT Governance

See also: How Defence in Depth Can Help Organisations Tackle Complex Cyber Security Risks Is Cyber Essentials Enough to Secure Your Organisation? Why Cyber Insurance is Essential in 2022. How we can help. If you want to know more about threat detection or defence in depth, IT Governance is here to help.

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Delivering business value for insurance companies

Collibra

Recapping a discussion moderated by Stijn Christiaens and featuring insurance data experts from Deloitte UK . Insurance is a data-intensive business. Insurance companies need data to better assess risks and price policies competitively, but also profitably. Data governance holds key to cloud migration.

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Cybersecurity Insurance Not Paying for NotPetya Losses

Schneier on Security

This will complicate things: To complicate matters, having cyber insurance might not cover everyone's losses. Zurich American Insurance Company refused to pay out a $100 million claim from Mondelez, saying that since the U.S.