Marsh McLennan announced the launch of its Cyber Risk Analytics Center, a resource that brings together the cyber risk data, analytics and mitigation expertise of its four businesses and other business, government and academic partners. The cross-enterprise center’s participants— Marsh, …
Catastrophe risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide announced it has developed a probabilistic model for cyber risk, which is capable of accounting for security breach and cloud service provider downtime incidents for insurance portfolios worldwide. AIR’s probabilistic cyber model estimates the …
Catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide (AIR) announced it is collaborating with reinsurance broker Capsicum Re to enhance the insurance industry’s modeling of what many refer to as “silent” cyber incidents. As part of the collaboration, the two firms will identify …
Nobody really knows what the biggest cyber risk is. But Scott Stransky, senior scientist at risk modeling firm AIR Worldwide, has thought a lot about a cloud breach and the business interruption ramifications. Listen as he describes the “Hurricane Andrew” …
Even as the Sony Corp. cyber attack laid bare the kinds of vulnerabilities that typically drive companies to buy insurance policies, the lack of a risk model for insurers means such protection is not always easy to get. Unlike earthquakes, …
