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Cyber Insurance

What is Cyber Insurance?

Insurance coverage designed to protect organisations against financial losses resulting from cyber incidents such as data breaches, ransomware attacks, and business interruption caused by cyber events.

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Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as cyber insurance. The number is how many controls name both.

What the standards actually require on cyber insurance

Requirements naming cyber insurance across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.

Lloyds of London Cyber Insurance Requirements - Affirmative Cyber Coverage Mandate. Following Lloyds Market Bulletin Y5258 (issued 16 August 2022) all Property Policies underwritten by Lloyds market participants must clearly state from 31 March 2023 onwards wh...

LLOYDS-CI-Affirmative-Coverage-Property-Cyber-Mandatory-Clarity-LMA-Model-Clauses-March-2023-Implementation · Lloyds Cyber Insurance Affirmative Coverage + LMA Model Clauses + March 2023

Cyber Insurance. RLEs should consider the benefits of purchasing a cyber insurance policy as part of their risk transfer strategy (para 24).

BMA-27 · Cyber Insurance

Establish and maintain contact information for parties that need to be informed of security incidents. Contacts may include internal staff, third-party vendors, law enforcement, cyber insurance providers, relevant government agencies, Information Sharing and A...

CIS-17.2 · Establish and Maintain Contact Information for Reporting Security Incidents

FTC Safeguards Rule emerging areas in 2024-2025. AI USE IN FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS: FTC AI guidance + 2024 OMB M-22-09 ZTA + 2024 OMB M-24-08 AI Risk Management + Section 5 FTC Act unfair-and-deceptive enforcement against discriminatory AI + opaque scoring + bi...

FTC-Safeguards-AI-SBOM-Pipeline · AI Use, SBOM, Supply Chain and 2024-2025 Emerging Areas

HKMA C-RAF 2024-2025 pipeline + emerging risks + sectoral cybersecurity evolution. KEY 2024-2025 INITIATIVES: (1) AI + MACHINE LEARNING + GENERATIVE AI CYBER GOVERNANCE - AIs deploying AI/ML for fraud detection + AML + customer service + lending + risk managem...

HKMA-CRAF-2024-2025-AI-Quantum-Cloud-Ransomware-DORA · HKMA C-RAF 2024-2025 Pipeline - AI, Quantum-Resistant Cryptography, Cloud Security, Ransomware, EU DORA Coordination

Questions people ask about cyber insurance

What is Cyber Insurance?
Insurance coverage designed to protect organisations against financial losses resulting from cyber incidents such as data breaches, ransomware attacks, and business interruption caused by cyber events.
Why is Cyber Insurance important for compliance?
Cyber Insurance is a key concept in Information Security. Understanding cyber insurance helps organizations meet regulatory requirements, reduce risk, and demonstrate due diligence during audits. Our compliance platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings.
Which compliance frameworks address Cyber Insurance?
Cyber Insurance appears in the requirement text of Lloyd's of London Cyber Insurance Requirements and Underwriting Standards, Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) Cyber Risk Management Code of Conduct, Japan FSA Cybersecurity Guidelines for Financial Institutions, CIS Controls v8, FTC GLBA Safeguards Rule (16 CFR Part 314). Across these standards we have identified 14 controls that name it directly, each linked to the control text on the compliance platform.
Where can I learn more about Cyber Insurance?
Explore our compliance framework pages to see how cyber insurance applies across different standards and regulations. Our implementation guides provide step-by-step guidance, and the compliance platform offers AI-powered analysis of how this concept maps across 686 frameworks.

See how Cyber Insurance applies across compliance frameworks

Our platform maps 686 frameworks with 311K cross-framework control mappings. Explore how this concept is addressed across standards.

Written and maintained by Gerard Blokdyk, The Art of Service.