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ponemon-institutePreparing for a breach can greatly reduce the cost of a breach according to the Ponemon Institute. Thus, insurers reward those organizations who have taken preparatory steps and implemented defensive measures such as an incident response plan and designated a team to execute that plan. An incident response plan will identify the actions that should be taken when a data incident occurs. Having an incident response plan can result in lower premiums.

Since securing cyber liability insurance is now a…
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*This is the fourth post in a five-part series on cyber insurance, culminating in a webinar entitled “Insurance Coverage for Privacy and Data Breaches, Hot Topics and Critical Issues” on Wednesday, April 22, 2015, at 12:00-1:00 p.m. Eastern. 

Common questions we often hear from CEOs, CFOs, and Directors of businesses and public and private institutions are “How do we determine our cyber insurance coverage needs?  In other words, how do we know that we have enough insurance to protect our…
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*This is the third post in a five-part series on cyber insurance, culminating in a webinar entitled “Insurance Coverage for Privacy and Data Breaches, Hot Topics and Critical Issues” on Wednesday, April 22, 2015 at 12:00-1:00 p.m. Eastern. 

Common questions we often hear from CEOs and CFOs are “what do cyber insurance policies cover and how much do they cost?”

Cyber risk insurance policies typically offer both first-party coverage (covering the policyholder’s losses) and third-party coverage (covering defense costs and…
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