Cyber Liability Insurance

The term “cyber liability insurance cover” is often used to describe a range of covers – in very much the same way that the word cyber is used to describe a broad range of information security related tools, processes and services.

Cyber liability insurance cover can include but not limited to;

• Data breach/privacy crisis management cover. For example, expenses related to the management of an incident, the investigation, the remediation, data subject notification, call management, credit checking for data subjects, legal costs, court attendance and regulatory fines.
• Multimedia/Media liability cover. Third-party damages covered can include specific defacement of website and intellectual property rights infringement.
• Extortion liability cover. Typically, losses due to a threat of extortion, professional fees related to dealing with the extortion.
• Network security liability. Third-party damages as a result of denial of access, costs related to data on third-party suppliers and costs related to the theft of data on third-party systems.
  
  

Some of the elements of a cyber liability cover may be interconnected or overlap with cover from existing products, including those for business continuity, third-party supply chain issues and professional indemnity. Even if this overlap does exist, a decent cyber liability policy will ensure cyber risks are fully catered for.