Cyber Insurance as a Way of Cyber Risks Management

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 35-42
Author(s):  
Александр Суворов ◽  
Aleksandr Suvorov ◽  
Мария Матанцева ◽  
Mariya Matanceva ◽  
Евгения Плотникова ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Insurance Industry ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
It Infrastructure ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Cyber Insurance ◽  
Risk Insurance ◽  
Commercial Organization ◽  
Cyber Risk

A review of the cyber insurance domain has been carried out with a description of classical terms from the insurance industry. Have been considered two the most comprehensive today definitions of cyber risk in authors’ opinion. A diagram of processes for cyber risk management using insurance has been presented, and the place of cyber-risk among other company’s risks has been demonstrated, i. e. the context of cyber risk among the risks of any commercial organization has been shown. A typical cyber insurance process has been described, and a scheme of cyber insurance processes has been developed. A brief description of problem areas and controversial issues in cyber insurance, with which cyber-risk insurance practices may face, has been presented, as well as a table showing at which stage of cyber-insurance the specific problems may arise. Has been provided the basic economic utility function, which formalizes decision making for agents with a different attitude to risk. Standards in cyber security, and various software products that can be used as a tool for assessing the security level of an enterprise’s IT infrastructure have been presented, and it has been demonstrated how these products can help in cyber risk assessment. Different methods used at each stage of cyber insurance have been shown.

scholarly journals Analysing IoT Cyber Risk for Estimating IoT Cyber Insurance

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petar Radanliev ◽  
Rafael Mantilla Montalvo ◽  
Razvan Nicolescu ◽  
Michael Huth ◽  
Stacy Cannady ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Assessment Model ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Cyber Insurance ◽  
Cyber Risk ◽  
Quantitative Impact ◽  
Grounded Theory Approach

This paper is focused on mapping the current evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) and its associated cyber risks for the Industry 4.0 (I4.0) sector. We report the results of a qualitative empirical study that correlates academic literature with 14 - I4.0 frameworks and initiatives. We apply the grounded theory approach to synthesise the findings from our literature review, to compare the cyber security frameworks and cyber security quantitative impact assessment models, with the world leading I4.0 technological trends. From the findings, we build a new impact assessment model of IoT cyber risk in Industry 4.0. We therefore advance the efforts of integrating standards and governance into Industry 4.0 and offer a better understanding of economics impact assessment models for I4.0.

scholarly journals Legal problems of insurance protection against cyber risks in space activities

2021 ◽  
pp. 268-276
Author(s):  
Nataliia Krasilich
Keyword(s):  
State Regulation ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Cyber Insurance ◽  
Insurance Contracts ◽  
Cyber Threats ◽  
Risk Insurance ◽  
Cyber Risk ◽  
Space Activities ◽  
Insured Event

General global trends in space activities are largely related to the need to protect space information technology from possible cyber threats. The issue of cybersecurity in space activities needs to be thoroughly studied and resolved, as the current state of space activities and existing mechanisms of international and state regulation do not provide a sufficient solution. Disruption of the process of receiving and exchanging information through space information systems can lead to significant consequences. The growing number of cyber threats is becoming more common and destructive. Therefore, the assessment of cyber vulnerabilities in space systems is an important task that must be addressed both at the stage of creation and development, and in the operation of such systems. This, in turn, requires the availability of tools to address the above tasks and qualified personnel. One of the legal ways to protect against the negative effects of cyber threats, including in the field of space activities, may be cyber risk insurance, as a financial and legal mechanism for compensation, loss of losses caused by cyber attacks. In Ukraine, cyber insurance is in its infancy and needs to develop innovative approaches to further development, taking into account the accumulated positive experience of foreign countries in this area. At the moment, insurance companies are only developing the practice of cyber risk insurance and such insurance contracts are isolated. In the current environment, as a rule, the issue of cyber risk insurance is included in comprehensive property insurance contracts, liability insurance, financial risks, which significantly limits the compensation of damages. The main difficulty in the process of indemnification under a cyber risk insurance contract is to record the fact of the insured event, the amount of damage and prove the causal link between the insured event and the claimed losses, as the amount of damage must not only be calculated but also documented. Space information technologies, which are increasingly penetrating economic and social processes, necessitate the development of a segment of cyber insurance in the field of space activities, which will provide adequate insurance protection and compensation for damages to the insured due to cyber incidents. Cyber risk insurance issues should be reflected in national legislation.

Data Breach, Privacy, and Cyber Insurance: How Insurance Companies Act as “Compliance Managers” for Businesses

2018 ◽  
Vol 43 (02) ◽  
pp. 417-440 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shauhin A. Talesh
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Legal Regulation ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Organizational Sociology ◽  
Cyber Insurance ◽  
Privacy Laws ◽  
Cyber Risk ◽  
Management Services

While data theft and cyber risk are major threats facing organizations, existing research suggests that most organizations do not have sufficient protection to prevent data breaches, deal with notification responsibilities, and comply with privacy laws. This article explores how insurance companies play a critical, yet unrecognized, role in assisting organizations in complying with privacy laws and dealing with cyber theft. My analysis draws from and contributes to two literatures on organizational compliance: new institutional organizational sociology studies of how organizations respond to legal regulation and sociolegal insurance scholars' research on how institutions govern through risk. Through participant observation at conferences, interviews, and content analysis of insurer manuals and risk management services, my study highlights how insurers act as compliance managers for organizations dealing with cyber security threats. Well beyond pooling and transferring risk, insurance companies offer cyber insurance and unique risk management services that influence the ways organizations comply with privacy laws.

scholarly journals Modeling the Effect of Spending on Cyber Security by Using Surplus Process

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ciyu Nie ◽  
Jingchao Li ◽  
Shaun Wang
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Optimal Investment ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Insurance Company ◽  
Risk Transfer ◽  
Surplus Process ◽  
Premium Income ◽  
Cyber Risk ◽  
The Impact

In this paper, we assume the security level of a system is a quantifiable metric and apply the insurance company ruin theory in assessing the defense failure frequencies. The current security level of an information system can be viewed as the initial insurer surplus; defense investment can be viewed as premium income resulting in an increase in the security level; cyberattack arrivals follow a Poisson process, and the impact of attacks is modeled as losses on the security level. The occurrence of cyber breach is modeled as a ruin event. We use this framework to determine optimal investment in cyber security that minimizes the total cyber costs. We show by numerical examples that there is an optimal allocation of total cyber security budget to (1) IT security maintenance/upkeep spending versus (2) external cyber risk transfer.

Maritime Cyber Risk Management: An Experimental Ship Assessment

2019 ◽  
Vol 72 (5) ◽  
pp. 1108-1120 ◽  
Author(s):  
Boris Svilicic ◽  
Junzo Kamahara ◽  
Matthew Rooks ◽  
Yoshiji Yano
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Software Tool ◽  
Assessment Process ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Security Assessment ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
Electronic Chart ◽  
Experimental Process ◽  
Cyber Risk

The maritime transport industry is increasingly reliant on computing and communication technologies, and the need for cyber risk management of critical systems and assets on vessels is becoming critically important. In this paper, a comprehensive cyber risk assessment of a ship is presented. An experimental process consisting of assessment preparation activities, assessment conduct and results communication has been developed. The assessment conduct relies on a survey developed and performed by interviewing a ship's crew. Computational vulnerability scanning of the ship's Electronic Chart Display and Information System (ECDIS) is introduced as a specific part of this cyber security assessment. The assessment process presented has been experimentally tested by evaluating the cyber security level of Kobe University's training ship Fukae-maru. For computational vulnerability scanning, an industry-leading software tool has been used, and a quantitative cyber risk analysis has been conducted to evaluate cyber risks on the ship.

scholarly journals Cyber insurance: the current situation and prospects of development

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (28) ◽  
pp. 65-73
Author(s):  
Petro Kurmaiev ◽  
Liudmyla Seliverstova ◽  
Olena Bondarenko ◽  
Nataliia Husarevych
Keyword(s):  
Correlation Analysis ◽  
Insurance Market ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Cyber Insurance ◽  
Single Standard ◽  
Business Entities ◽  
High Level ◽  
Risk Insurance ◽  
Cyber Risk

The aim of the article is to analyze current trends in the development of cyber insurance. The following methods of scientific research were used in the preparation of the article: generalization, correlation analysis, comparative analysis. The authors analyze in detail the main trends in the spread of cybercrime. The correlation analysis between the number of registered cybercrimes in a particular country and its GDP, the number of business entities, indicated the lack of correlation between the studied indicators. It states that the most common types of cybercrime are: hacking, unauthorized access, accidental exposure, insider and physical theft. The sectoral analysis of the distribution of cybercrime has revealed a decrease in the share of financial companies while increasing the share of health care companies. It is noted that cyber insurance is one of the effective preventive measures that minimize the negative effects of cybercrime intervention. The article presents segmentation of the cyber insurance market by geography and size of insurance companies. The results of the analysis showed the dominance of US companies in the cyber insurance market. It is stated that the sectoral distribution of cybersecurity policy purchasers in general follows the trends of the sectoral distribution of cybercrime. The volume of cyber insurance, expenses of insured legal entities is analyzed. The main trends in the development of cyber insurance have been identified. The factors that hold back the development of cyber risk insurance have been identified. The main ones include the following: high level of information entropy in the process of cyber risk assessment, lack of a single standard for filling insurance services in the field of cyber insurance. It is noted that in the medium term the cyber insurance market is prospective for insurance companies. This is caused by the increasing scale of cyber threats and the costs associated with cyberattacks.

scholarly journals Optimal Investment in Cyber-Security under Cyber Insurance for a Multi-Branch Firm

Risks ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Alessandro Mazzoccoli ◽  
Maurizio Naldi
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Cyber Security ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Limited Liability ◽  
Optimal Investment ◽  
Cyber Insurance ◽  
Risk Management Strategies ◽  
Cyber Risk ◽  
Investment Choices ◽  
Very High

Investments in security and cyber-insurance are two cyber-risk management strategies that can be employed together to optimize the overall security expense. In this paper, we provide a closed form for the optimal investment under a full set of insurance liability scenarios (full liability, limited liability, and limited liability with deductibles) when we consider a multi-branch firm with correlated vulnerability. The insurance component results to be the major expense. It ends up being the only recommended approach (i.e., setting zero investments in security) when the intrinsic vulnerability is either very low or very high. We also study the robustness of the investment choices when our knowledge of vulnerability and correlation is uncertain, concluding that the uncertainty induced on investment by either uncertain correlation or uncertain vulnerability is not significant.

scholarly journals The County Fair Cyber Loss Distribution

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Daniel W. Woods ◽  
Tyler Moore ◽  
Andrew C. Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Cyber Security ◽  
Value Premium ◽  
Loss Distribution ◽  
Insurance Pricing ◽  
Cyber Insurance ◽  
Data Market ◽  
Loss Models ◽  
Cyber Risk ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Over Time

Insurance premiums reflect expectations about the future losses of each insured. Given the dearth of cyber security loss data, market premiums could shed light on the true magnitude of cyber losses despite noise from factors unrelated to losses. To that end, we extract cyber insurance pricing information from the regulatory filings of 26 insurers. We provide empirical observations on how premiums vary by coverage type, amount, and policyholder type and over time. A method using particle swarm optimisation and the expected value premium principle is introduced to iterate through candidate parameterised distributions with the goal of reducing error in predicting observed prices. We then aggregate the inferred loss models across 6,828 observed prices from all 26 insurers to derive the County Fair Cyber Loss Distribution . We demonstrate its value in decision support by applying it to a theoretical retail firm with annual revenue of $50M. The results suggest that the expected cyber liability loss is $428K and that the firm faces a 2.3% chance of experiencing a cyber liability loss between $100K and $10M each year. The method and resulting estimates could help organisations better manage cyber risk, regardless of whether they purchase insurance.

scholarly journals РОЛЬ КІБЕРСТРАХУВАННЯ В СИСТЕМІ РИЗИК-МЕНЕДЖМЕНТУ БАНКІВСЬКИХ УСТАНОВ

2020 ◽  
pp. 183-196
Author(s):  
Maksym Dubyna ◽  
Iryna Serediuk ◽  
Natalia Bilous
Keyword(s):  
Control Systems ◽  
Internal Control ◽  
Cyber Attacks ◽  
Insurance Companies ◽  
Cyber Insurance ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Banking Institutions ◽  
Risk Insurance ◽  
Cyber Risk

Within the article, the role of cyber insurance in the development of risk management systems of banking institutions is researched, namely, the essence of this system is specified, conditions of cyber risks and their potential for threats to banking institutions are identified. Considerable attention is paid to the analysis of the consequences and actions of cyber attacks in the activities of these institutions, the essence of cyber insurance as a method of minimizing losses from such influences is studied, peculiarities of providing cyber risk insurance services by insurance companies to commercial banks are specified. In addition, current trends as for the costs of organizations to take measures to ensure their own cybersecurity and purchase of appropriate insurance products are revealed, measures to improve security of banking institutions based on improving their internal control systems and financial security are specified.

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