Cyber and Data Insurance
At Capurro Insurance we aim to support you in your cyber journey by ensuring that you have the knowledge and tools on how a cyber insurance policy can respond to a cyber incident. Together with London and Lloyds of London specialist brokers we negotiate with market-leading cyber underwriters in order to provide our clients with the most appropriate policies for their businesses.
Making sense of Cyber Insurance
What is cyber?
Cyber relates to any internet connected systems, this includes your computers hardware, software and data it collects.
Does your business need cyber insurance?
Most companies purchase general liability insurance to protect themselves from any claims arising from the wrongful or negligent acts of their employees. So, why would your company not need cyber insurance? As we become increasingly dependent on technology, cyber risk is one of the most talked about topics. The shift from post and paper records to digital email communications or data storage means that your business has a greater exposure to suffer a theft.
Data breach has now become an every-day occurrence but, unfortunately, as is the case with many insurance covers, most people do not recognise the need for the insurance until the disaster has already happened, when it is obviously too late.
Types of cyber claims
Cyber attacks can happen in many ways such as, theft of funds where a hacker will steal money from a company’s bank account; damage to digital assets whereby a hacker is able to damage the system which your company works on, resulting in huge business interruption costs and in many cases leaving your business in great reputational prejudice; or data breach and privacy crisis management in which the firm’s customers’ personal information is exposed or stolen by a hacker or other criminal who has gained access to the firm’s electronic network.