As cyber threats continue to increase, they are outpacing the ability of traditional insurance and risk management approaches to fully mitigate them.
The resulting cyber risk protection gap is a societal challenge that urgently needs collective action from both the insurance industry and the public sector.
In this report, Marsh McLennan and Zurich suggest ways of addressing the gap, including strategies to enhance the private cyber insurance market’s functionality and risk bearing capacity, identifying areas of limited insurability and non-insurability, and outlining potential principles for public-private partnerships.
We hope this paper will serve as a call to action so that the right partnerships can be put in place to help create a larger, more sustainable cyber insurance market.
Closing the cyber risk protection gap
This report addresses issues including:
- Strengthening resilience to manage catastrophic risk
- Addressing the challenges of scaling the cyber insurance market
- Understanding the spectrum of insurable and non-insurable risks
- Exploring the potential for a public sector role in managing catastrophic cyber risk
Report FAQs
What does the whitepaper emphasize?
The whitepaper emphasizes the urgent need for innovative solutions to close the gap between risk and insurance – particularly for small and medium-size businesses that are often uninsured or underinsured – as rapidly-evolving cyber threats are outpacing the capacity of traditional insurance and risk management solutions to fully mitigate them.
What is one of the main calls to action of the whitepaper?
Both the insurance industry and the public sector are urged to collaborate, share, and innovate to confront the growing cyber risk protection gap, foster resilience, and safeguard our society and economy from the escalating cyber threat landscape.
Authors and Contributors
Marsh
- Greg Eskins, Global Cyber Insurance Center Leader, Marsh
Guy Carpenter
- Matt McCabe, Managing Director, Cyber Center of Excellence, Guy Carpenter