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Cyber Liability Insurance

Cyber Liability insurance policies will offer you protection from cyber risks which could be damaging to your business and its reputation, such as data recovery following a hardware failure or a full-scale data breach.

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Why Choose Us?

Cyber Expertise

Dedicated experts navigate you through pitfalls of this emerging risk.

Root Cause Analysis

Working with you to identify potential root cause of cyber incidents.

Prevention Rather Than Cure

Cyber training to help employees identify potential cyber issues.

Understanding Human Behaviour

Why is Cyber Liability Insurance becoming so important? Up to 95 % of all major cyber incidents and the associated financial losses that arise from them are the result of some form of human error. These normally arise due to an inadequate security culture within your business.

The focus of social engineering attacks is becoming more targeted and it is important to identify and address the underlying root cause: human behaviour.

Understanding Human Behaviour

Why is Cyber Liability Insurance becoming so important? Up to 95 % of all major cyber incidents and the associated financial losses that arise from them are the result of some form of human error. These normally arise due to an inadequate security culture within your business.

The focus of social engineering attacks is becoming more targeted and it is important to identify and address the underlying root cause: human behaviour.

Cyber Liability cover to consider

It is important to make sure that you are insured on a comprehensive cyber liability insurance policy and the areas of cover to consider are :

Hardware – cover against loss, theft, damage, cyber events and breakdown to hardware

Data Corruption and Extra Cost – cover to restore computer systems to the position they were in prior to a cyber event.

Cyber Crime – cover for financial loss resulting from fraudulent input or change in data into insured computer systems leading to dishonest money and credit transactions.

Cyber Liability – cover to pay for damages and defence costs from claims made against the insured for failure to secure data, unintentional transmission of a virus and reputational damage from website, email or distributed content.

Data-Breach Expense – cover to pay for the costs of investigating a data breach and notifying customers, legal advice, public relations and crisis management expertise,

Cyber Event – loss of business income – cover for loss of income following a cyber event or prevention of access.

To discuss any aspect of your insurance requirements with us, please contact us and one of our dedicated Account Executives will be in touch to assist you further.

A retailer with a £ 3m turnover suffered a data breach affecting 5,000 of the customer records. The Cyber Liability insurers stepped in to resolve the issue. The total claims cost to resolve the issue was £52,000, made up of legal costs – £6,500, PR/ Communication costs £12,000, Response Costs £10,000, PCI and ID Monitoring costs £23,500.

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