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A relatively new concept, cyber insurance is designed to help protect your business from the financial impact of computer hacking or a data breach.
If your business has a website or keeps electronic records, then you are vulnerable to cyber hackers. A cyber attack could cost your business more than just money, it could affect your intellectual property and the personal information of your customers.
CASE STUDY
Your employee opens an email attachment infected with a ransomware virus. Access to your systems and data are blocked and the virus software informs you that it will remain unavailable unless you pay the ransom amount. Rather than paying the hacker and opening your business up to further extortion attempts, you hire external IT consultants to recover your back-up data and files and upgrade your antivirus software.
Over the week it takes to apply these fixes, you have to close your business, causing you to lose revenue. It also affects your reputation with your clients; one of your clients threatens to sue you for the delay which cost them a large amount of money.
A Cyber Protection Insurance policy allows you to recover some of the costs you incur during this incident. Depending on your policy, you may be able to make a claim for losses caused by the interruption to your business, the costs of recovering your data
and upgrading your software, and ongoing crisis management expenses.
For more Information download our guide on Cyber Insurance.