Emerging Risk

Dixons Carphone Warehouse Data Breach Highlights Risks For Insurance Sector

The news that the Dixons Carphone Warehpuse group suffered a data breach involving almost 6 million accounts highlights the huge risks in the growing cyber insurance sector. Although Dixons-Carphone (DC) say that no fraud has […]

Insurance Brokers

Ecclesiastical Offers Brokers Guide on Education Sector Risk

A new guide to help brokers talk through existing and emerging risks with independent school bursars has been released by specialist insurer, Ecclesiastical. Ecclesiastical’s Education Insight guide provides advice and guidance to help address the […]

Big Data

AIG Research Finds New GDPR Rules May Cause Spike in Cyber Claims

AIG Europe research found that a further surge in data breach and other security failure insurance claims is expected after the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force this week. A record breaking year […]

Conference report

BIBA 2018: CFC To Offer Advice on Cyber Insurance Cover to Brokers

Almost conference time; BIBA is just over one week away – here’s some news from CFC; Specialist insurance provider behind BIBA’s cyber insurance scheme, CFC, will be launching its new BIBA Cyber Guide at BIBA 2018. While […]

Artificial Intelligence

In an Automated Manufacturing World, Cyber Attack is a Growing Risk

Here’s the thing about Artificial Intelligence; it takes away human thinking, instinct and judgement, replacing it with an algorithm, strings of code which mimic human actions and thought processes. In some ways that makes AI […]

Emerging Risk

Opinion: Cybercrime Attacks Are a Huge Challenge for Insurers

In this Opinion article, Alison Martin, Group Chief Risk Officer at Zurich Insurance Group, takes a look at cybercrime and how this rising, and ever-changing type of risk, poses challenges for the insurance sector; In […]

Fraud

UK General Launches Personal Cyber Insurance Product

UK General Insurance, the Leeds-based specialist and niche personal lines insurance provider, is launching a new product, personal cyber protection insurance. The product, which has been developed in partnership with UK General’s capacity partner Munich […]

Big Data

FICO Launch Cyber Security Risk Modelling Tools for Underwriters

Silicon Valley analytics firm FICO today announced that the FICO® Enterprise Security Score is the first cyber security rating to include powerful risk assessment and modelling capabilities to help insurers make better underwriting, pricing and portfolio decisions, and […]