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Insurance Product Provides Cloud Downtime Cover Instantly

Parametrix Insurance, a provider of parametric cloud downtime insurance, and ComTech-Leavitt Insurance Services, a member of insurance brokerage Leavitt Group, have partnered to help businesses using the cloud reduce their exposure to cloud downtime. International Data Corp. forecasted in a …

Cyber MGA Resilience Forms Captive Insurer in Bermuda

Cyber insurance and security provider Resilience Cyber Insurance Solutions has created a captive reinsurance company. Through the Bermuda-based captive, Resilience will retain a share of each risk it underwrites. CJ Pruzinsky, executive vice president and chief underwriting officer for North …

People Moves: NFP Cyber Adds Marsh’s Maugé, WTW’s Cavaliere; Dillman to Head Chubb’s Digital Transformation

NFP Welcomes Cyber Risk Experts Maugé and Cavaliere Insurance broker NFP announced the addition of Courtney Maugé, senior vice president, cyber practice leader, and Rick Cavaliere, senior vice president, senior cyber broker. Maugé joins the company from Marsh FINPRO, where …

Regional Cyber Conflicts Could Lead to Infrastructure Attacks in 2022: CyberCube

Three regional cyber conflicts could lead to infrastructure attacks and damaging cyber espionage in 2022, a new report from cyber analytics company CyberCube says. The current cyber landscape, cyber hostilities between Israel and Iran, India and Pakistan, and China and …

Cyber MGA Resilience Becomes Lloyd’s Coverholder

Resilience, the San Francisco-based cyber managing general agent, announced it has earned delegated authority as a coverholder at Lloyd’s. As a Lloyd’s coverholder, Resilience will be positioned to deliver its comprehensive cyber risk management and insurance solutions to the worldwide …

‘Cybersecurity Failure’ Named a Critical Global Threat in WEF Survey Report

“Cybersecurity failure” was identified as a critical short-and-medium-term threat to the world by respondents of the World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Perception Survey (GRPS). GRPS respondents rank cybersecurity failure among the top-10 risks that have worsened most since the start …

UK Cyber Insurtech KYND Receives £3.25 Million Investment from BGF

KYND, the London-based provider of cyber risk management solutions for the insurance industry, announced a £3.25 million ($4.4 million) investment from BGF, a growth capital investor. The insurtech will use the investment to accelerate its growth and global expansion plans, …

Insurance Journal’s Top Cyber Stories of 2021

Ransomware was the word of the year in 2021 for the cyber insurance industry as attacks continued to grow in scale and complexity, and experts say this cyber threat landscape will likely continue in the new year. Kurt Suhs, founder …

Despite Mitigation Efforts, Cyber Attacks and Rate Hikes to Continue in 2022

As dramatic as escalating ransomware attacks and rapidly climbing cyber insurance rates have been in 2021, both trends will continue to be a nuisance in 2022, according to an expert from Fitch Ratings. “It is probably one of the bigger …

Cyber Insurtech Corvus Buys Lloyd’s Coverholder Tarian Underwriting Ltd.

Corvus Insurance, the Boston-based, cyber-focused managing general agent, announced it has acquired Tarian Underwriting Ltd. from Beat Capital Partners Ltd. Tarian operates a cyber underwriting platform that provides cyber solutions and underwrites on behalf of a consortium of Lloyd’s syndicates. …