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Does Your Vehicle Insurance also provide you Cyber Insurance?

Cyber Security specialists have recently demonstrated how a commercially sold car can be effectively taken control of by a remote “Hacker” leading to disastrous consequences. This article in Washington Post graphically sketches how a hacker can cut off the engine or … Continue reading

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Hanover Survey on Cyber Insurance

In November 2014, on online research was conducted by Hanover Research to understand the market for Cyber Insurance. (A Copy of the published Report is available here). The survey is supposed to have gathered information from 271 respondents, most of … Continue reading

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Should IS community be bearish on Cyber Insurance?

Information Security Professionals think that all the talk of Cyber Insurance is nonsense since the risks are so huge that any company that insures Cyber risks is doomed to fail. Is this negative thinking justified?.. Let’s explore Cyber Insurance is … Continue reading

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Should IRCTC obtain Cyber Insurance?

Naavi.org has in the past discussed the information security issues from the consumer perspective in the IRCTC website and demanded suitable security audits. It is good to note that it has now been reported that STQC is conducting an information … Continue reading

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If there is a “Glassdoor Attack” on my company, am I covered by Cyber Insurance?

Indian Companies are facing a new kind of reputation attack by  disgruntled employees posting defamatory messages through companies such as Glassdoor who have built a business model around monetizing the disgruntlement of employees.  The essence of this model is to … Continue reading

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If I am ISO 27001 certified, am I getting a premium cut for Cyber Insurance?

Cyber Insurance is a means of transferring the risk that an organization is unable to avoid,  mitigate or absorb. However when a company approaches a Cyber Insurer or a Cyber Insurance Broker, and a question of the cost of insurance … Continue reading

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