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Fortune 500’s Insured Losses for CrowdStrike Could Reach $1 Billion: Parametrix

Insurance Journal

The total direct financial loss facing the US Fortune 500 companies, excluding Microsoft, from the CrowdStrike outage on July 19 is $5.4 The portion of the loss covered under cyber insurance policies … billion, modeling and insurance services firm Parametrix estimates.

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Why Cyber Insurers Should Partner in Cybersecurity Support

Insurance Journal

The history of insurance dates back as far as 2000 BCE, when merchants and traders developed basic risk-sharing agreements to protect against financial losses from unpredictable events. At its most basic, insurance as a concept was merely a financial safety …

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Markets/Coverages: Liberty Mutual Re, Insurtech Sprout Offer Parametric Cover for Kenyan Coffee Farmers Facing Climate Risk

Insurance Journal

and the Kenyan insurer Britam to launch a parametric insurance product, which aims to protect Kenyan coffee growers from financial losses due … Liberty Mutual Reinsurance (LM Re), part of Liberty Mutual Insurance Group, has partnered with insurtech firm Sprout Inc.

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Cargo Insurance: The Five Policies You Need to Protect Your Fleet

Central Insurance

Without proper coverage, businesses risk financial loss, reputational damage, and loss of key contracts, which can all be detrimental. The transportation industry runs on reliability. The consequences can ripple far beyond a single shipment when cargo is lost, damaged, or delayed.

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How to Protect Your Construction Company from a Cyberattack

Central Insurance

These risks can have severe consequences, including financial losses, reputational damage, and operational disruption. Data breaches, ransomware attacks, and phishing scams have become common threats, highlighting the importance of cyber insurance with resolution services for construction companies.

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How to Protect Your Construction Company from a Cyberattack

Central Insurance

These risks can have severe consequences, including financial losses, reputational damage, and operational disruption. Data breaches, ransomware attacks, and phishing scams have become common threats, highlighting the importance of cyber insurance with resolution services for construction companies.

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The latest reports from FBI and ITRC reveal that cyber incidents in 2023 broke records for financial loss and frequency.

Triple-I: Business Insurance

Email compromise, cryptocurrency fraud, and ransomware increase In addition to record-high financial losses from cybercrimes overall in 2023, the report revealed trends across crime methodology and targets. Meanwhile, supply-chain attacks increased, and weak notification frameworks further increased cyber risk for all stakeholders.