Building a Robust Cyber Insurance Market Is Focus of Oct. 13 Panel
Published on October 7, 2021
Triple-I CEO Sean Kevelighan will join a virtual panel on Wednesday, Oct. 13, at 11 a.m., ET, to brief public policymakers on ways to build a robust cyber risk insurance market.
“To allow businesses to operate safely in an increasingly interconnected world, insurers are working closely with their commercial customers to mitigate cyber risks and to make sure businesses have the right types, and amounts, of cyber insurance,” Kevelighan said. “However, as we are seeing increasing uncertainty in the extensiveness of cyber risk, it is also essential that we better understand the role government needs to play in particular around law enforcement and international diplomacy.”
As previously noted in The Triple-I Blog, some in the national security world have compared U.S. cybersecurity preparedness today to its readiness for large terrorist acts prior to 9/11. Before those attacks, terrorism coverage was included in most commercial property policies as a “silent” peril – not specifically excluded, therefore covered. Afterward, insurers began excluding terrorist acts from policies, and the U.S. government established the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act to stabilize the market.
“A balanced public-private partnership that recognizes where insurance can be a helpful financial responder, and how government is an essential preventative tool, will be critical to helping mitigate the ever-increasing cyber risks we are facing in the world,” Kevelighan said.
Presented by Indiana University’s Ostrom Workshop and Cybersecurity Risk Management Program in collaboration with The Institutes Griffith Insurance Education Foundation, the discussion can be viewed free of charge by public policymakers who register online in advance. It is one of three Cybersecurity Policy Bootcamp sessions the two organizations are co-hosting in October as part of Cyber Security Awareness Month.
The one-hour session will focus on Deepening Partnerships Between States, the Federal Government, the Private Sector, and Academia to Build a Robust Cyber Risk Insurance Market.
Along with Kevelighan on the panel will be three other subject matter experts:
Elizabeth Kelleher Dwyer, Esq., superintendent of Financial Services for Rhode Island Department of Business Regulation;Scott J. Shackelford, JD, PhD, chair of the Cybersecurity Program at Indiana University, Bloomington; andDouglas Swetnam, section chief for Data Privacy & Identity Theft in the Indiana Attorney General’s OfficeFrank Tomasello, executive director for the Institutes Griffith Insurance Education Foundation, will be the panel’s moderator.
Learn More:
Article: Cyber Liability Risks
Video: Seven Cybersecurity Tips to Safeguard Your Business
Triple-I Blog:
Cyber Insurance’s “Perfect Storm”
“Silent” Echoes Of 9/11 in Today’s Management of Cyber Risks
Brokers, Policyholders Need Greater Clarity on Cyber Coverage
Cyber Risk Gets Real, Demands New Approaches
