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Making Sense of Cyber Insurance

A variety of policies deal with different types of exposure.

By Russ Banham, PropertyCasualty360 | Updated on January 15, 2014

Few corporate risks are as amorphous as cyber liability, and few insurance products are as complex as cyber insurance. Small wonder why so many different insurance policies present a modicum of cyber coverage, but none offer comprehensive protection.

The problem can be traced to the word “cyber,” so broad that it encompasses a multitude of financial exposures, from denial of service attacks to computer viruses to a cup of coffee destroying a laptop. Other cyber risks include stolen or corrupted digital information, Internet-based libel and slander, and even such extraordinary hazards as an office building’s computer-operated HVAC system shut down by a hacker.  

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