More and more focus has been put on cyberliability. Internet data breaches, denial of service attacks, and other cyber losses affect Fortune 500 companies as well as small businesses. Loss of customers, sales, costs of investigations, responding to losses, lawsuits and regulatory fines can be astounding. Ponemon Institute estimates that costs to remediate compromises caused by loss or breach can run as high as $200 per affected account. At that rate, it’s easy to imagine how costs can quickly run into the millions of dollars. Most media coverage goes to the big companies, but small companies also run the risk of cyberliability expenses. Big businesses can more easily absorb or has the means to stave off such costs. But emerging companies may be left bare.
Fortunately, there is some help from the insurance industry. In response to serious gaps left by typical liability coverage, companies continue to fine tune their insurance products for cyberliability exposures for emerging firms. Most old policies only covered physical losses such as damage to servers, laptops, or other hardware; the data itself wasn’t protected. The new cyberliablilty policies can be tailored to cover almost any loss, whether tangible or not. In this way, small businesses can protect themselves because of an error, theft, or malicious act against them.
As with any other type of insurance, coverage, rates and reimbursement policies vary from provider to provider. For more information and tips on protecting your corporation from cyberliability exposures, please give us a call and we will connect you with a TechAssure member.