Cyber insurance

Providing organisations with financial protection and the critical first response support required to investigate, control, mitigate and remove cyber security threats.

Why choose Howden for Cyber insurance?

At Howden we aim to support you in your cyber journey by ensuring that you have the knowledge and tools to achieve business resilience, leveraging our strong insurer partnerships to negotiate the most appropriate deals on your behalf. 

We make sure that you know how your insurance policy can respond to a cyber incident, and have a strong, experienced claims handling team to support you during the claims process, should an incident occur.

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An introduction to Cyber insurance

What is Cyber insurance?

Cyber insurance, also known as Cyber security or Cyber liability insurance, is protection for your business from illegal attacks to access your organisations’ data or to disrupt their operations for criminal, espionage, politics or simply for mischief. 

Cybersecurity is a significant problem in BrazilNo matter how robust your IT security protocols are, they cannot prevent human error, and all it takes is for one person to make one mistake.

With businesses increasingly relying on technology to drive core objectives, the risk of losing money and data, or technology being denied or failing due to accidental or malicious interference has never been greater. So, to keep up with the digital age, insurance evolved to remain relevant to what has fast become the top concern for most businesses globally -  their cyber risk

Business leaders without a well-thought-out strategy around cyber protection are effectively gambling with all their funds to develop their business. Or depending on your cash reserves, your very survival.

What does Cyber insurance cover?

Cyber events can disrupt organisations of all sizes, across all industries, causing reputational damage, operational downtime, financial loss and legal action. A solid Cybersecurity policy is designed to minimise and mitigate these risks, typically covering:

  • Incident response support to include IT forensics, Legal and PR services. 
  • Business interruption cover, providing protection for income
  • Digital and data asset loss, including the cost of repair, restoration or replacement
  • Information Security and Privacy Liability
  • Cyber terrorism and extortion 
  • Cyber Crime cover to help you recover lost funds from financially motivated attacks such as funds transfer fraud
  • Multimedia Liability (Defamation/IP Infringement)
  • Defence costs, civil fines and penalties, where insurable by law

Common forms of cyber-attacks

From targeted ransomware and hacking, to phishing, malware, email compromise, fraud, data breaches, social engineering and employee error, the threat landscape continues growing in size and complexity. Millions of attacks are launched at firms every day, some actually succeed in breaching these companies’ defences and wreak havoc.

An increasingly popular form of attack uses emails that appear to be from a known teammate, to trick people into installing malicious software – it’s an easy mistake that can lead to your business being locked down, losing money and held to ransom. 

A growing number of breaches come from your employees (often disgruntled) with insider knowledge. 

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Who needs Cyber insurance?

The huge range of connected applications and systems businesses use each day present a risk, particularly wherever one ‘talks’ to another.

Wherever people are involved in building, configuring or operating these interconnected systems, they can create inadvertent entry points for cyber criminals.

But cyber crime is much more about people than technology – that’s why insurance is so important for all businesses, large and small.

Key reasons cyber risk cover is essential for businesses large and small 

  1. Everyone makes mistakes, even smart people can do irrational things when it comes to protecting an organisation’s data.
  2. Cyber criminals are always finding new ways to trick their staff into collaborating with them inadvertently.
  3. Rogue employees – a large proportion of hacks and breaches are committed by current members of staff with a grievance. 
  4. Many businesses in supply chains have a requirement to get cyber insurance as part of a compliance checklist for vendor companies.
  5. The biggest firewall in the world won’t protect your system from people inside.

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