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Cyber FICO Ratings Could Benefit Insurance Underwriting in Multiple Ways
Nearly 30 years ago the Fair Isaac Corporation ("FICO") first introduced its metric for measuring creditworthiness. Since then, the FICO Score has become a default metric used by countless market ...
CROs Will Become Key in Hacker Attack Battles, and Other Aon Cyber Predictions
As cyber attacks increasingly threaten business and grow in volume and scale, companies will be forced to take new measures to address cybersecurity risk holistically, integrating it more ...
VC Firm Backed by Ex-Intelligence Chiefs Plans EU-Wide Cybersecurity Firm
A venture capital fund advised by former British and U.S. intelligence officials is planning a string of acquisitions to create a pan-European cybersecurity specialist. C5 Capital aims to create a ...
Cybersecurity Firm Optiv Expands Into Europe, Seeks Acquisitions
Optiv Security, an acquisitive Denver-based company backed by private equity firm KKR, is expanding into Europe, where it will offer its cybersecurity management and consultancy services, executives ...
The Latest Launches From Willis Re and Munich Re
Willis Re beefed up its cyber risk portfolio modeling tool to include a new, key feature. A deal Munich Re forged with another company enables its insurance carrier clients to obtain drone ...
Insurers Late to the Game With a 3-D Printing Coverage Strategy
Insurers are woefully behind in developing a coverage strategy for 3-D printing and stand to face liability problems if they don't do so, an expert appearing at the PLUS 2017 conference in Atlanta ...
The Latest Launches From Ironshore and Beazley
Ironshore now has a team devoted to managing cyber claims across all of its product lines. Beazley debuted expanded protection meant to address schemes such as the kind where employees are illegally ...
Common Misconceptions and 4 Other Reasons Cybersecurity Is Failing
Businesses are spending a small fortune on cybersecurity but what they are doing is not working very well, according to a cybersecurity expert who sees the insurance industry as a key to improving ...