Global Cyber Risk Trends and Insurance Survey
The cyber insurance market reached a record size last year. Cyberattacks and the volume of compromised digital assets increased simultaneously
Cyber risks are seen as an area of opportunity and expansion for the insurance-linked securities (ILS) marketplace. As demand for cyber insurance and cyber reinsurance grow, while there has been a general lack of cyber retrocession capacity, many are looking to the capital markets and ILS to fill the gaps.
The ILS market regularly discusses the potential for cyber ILS and cyber catastrophe bonds, while a number of companies have been exploring ceding more cyber insurance risk to the capital markets, using insurance-linked securities (ILS).
The cyber insurance market reached a record size last year. Cyberattacks and the volume of compromised digital assets increased simultaneously
Lloyd’s published a systemic risk scenario that models the global economic impact of a hypothetical but plausible cyber attack on a major financial services payments system
Companies that have strong cyber security hygiene are reducing the risk of being targeted by cybercriminals. Investment in cyber security is crucial in this environment
ILS plays a key role in allowing catastrophe risk to be transferred from the commercial insurance market to investors, providing additional (re)insurance capacity
Public announce of cyber risk transference by (re)insurers to capital markets through ILS issuances represent the potential for a reinsurance
Given cyber crime incidents are now estimated to cost the world economy in excess of $1trn a year – around 1% of global GDP – it is no surprise that cyber risk regularly ranks
The increased use of new forms of risk transfer in the cyber reinsurance market to have renewed discussions about the potential role Insurance-Linked Securities (ILS)
Increasing demand for cyber re/insurance have made the need for fresh risk capital acute. With insurance linked securities (ILS) market, re/insurers may be change