Cyber Insurance

Cyber insurance (also referred to as cyber risk or cyber liability insurance) is a form of cover designed to protect your business from threats in the digital age, such as data breaches or malicious cyber hacks on work computer systems. A business is responsible for its own cybersecurity, but having the right insurance will mean you aren’t alone in the event of a cyber attack. Cyber liability cover will provide crucial support to help your business stay afloat.

What does cyber insurance cover?

In the event of a cyberattack, most cyber insurance policies will cover the first-party and third-party financial and reputational costs if data or electronic systems have been lost, damaged, stolen or corrupted.

For the business involved – the first-party – cover includes the cost of investigating a cybercrime, recovering data lost in a security breach and the restoration of computer systems, loss of income incurred by a business shutdown, reputation management, extortion payments demanded by hackers, and notification costs, in the case you are required to notify third parties affected.

Third-party coverages (resulting from claims against you) include damages and settlements and the cost of legally defending yourself against claims of a GDPR breach.

Who needs cyber insurance?

If your business uses, sends or stores electronic data, you may benefit from cyber insurance. Whether it belongs to the business or is sensitive customer information, that data is vulnerable to cyber-attacks and data breaches; cyber insurance can help with the cost of recovery.

This is why cyber insurance is important for a small business, as it offers financial support if the worst happens.