Why You Need to Bolster Your Cyber-Insurance?

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When everything is now being more digitalised, it is common for cyber attacks to occur. But how can you insure something that is online? Cyber insurance is an insurance product used to protect businesses and individual users from Internet based risks. This is more generally from risks relating to information technology infrastructure and activities.

Data breaches can cause issues that can either just affect you or the entire business. Taking care of everything that is online can protect you and your client’s/employee’s data. 32% of businesses and 22% of charities experienced a data breach in the past 12 months.

What does Cyber Insurance Cover?

In the event of a cyberattack, most policies will cover the first-party (the business) and third-party financial and reputational costs. This will only be done if data or electronic systems have been lost, damaged, stolen, or corrupted during the data breach.

For the business involved cover includes the cost of:

  • investigating a cybercrime
  • recovering data lost in a security breach
  • the restoration of computer systems
  • the loss of income incurred by a business shutdown, reputation management, extortion payments demanded by hackers
  • notification costs, in the case you are required to notify third parties affected

Third party coverages (that result from claims against you) include damages and settlements, and the cost of legally defending yourself against claims of a GDPR breach.

 Who Needs Cyber Insurance?

If your business uses, sends, or stores electronic data, you may benefit from this insurance. That data, whether it belongs to the business or is sensitive customer information, is vulnerable to cyber attacks and data breaches; cyber insurance can help with the cost of recovery.

This is why cyber insurance is important for a small business, as it offers financial support if the worst happens.

Types of Breaches:

There are many forms of cyber-attacks that can affect your company. Here are the most disruptive forms of cyber-attack among organisations that occurred within the past 12 months. These include:

  • fraudulent emails or being directed to fraudulent websites
  • others impersonating the organisation in emails or online
  • viruses, spyware, or malware

Lacking Cyber-Security Comes with a Cost

Trying to cover yourself when a cyber-attack has occurred will cost you money in the long run. Even though you won’t be physically losing money during the attack, you will be losing money when you are trying to sort it out.

Whether you are a business or a charity it can affect you drastically. Over this past year, the average amount of time and financial cost for businesses during disruptive data breach were 3 days and £4,180. For charities is was 4.5 days and £9,470. Not having cyber-security could affect your business or charity a lot financially.

Provide Your Organisation with the Ultimate Protection

Despite these startling statistics, just 11% of businesses and 6% of charities have a cyber-security insurance policy. Don’t ignore your organisation’s cyber-security.

How can we help!

At Trevellyan Insurance Brokers, we want to help businesses not be at fault, insuring with us today can help you keep you secure and safe in your hands. We make sure that you are covered and also keep you insured.

As brokers, we can help you find a policy that is at the best price.

We can offer you a quote that is suitable for you and right for your business.

Contact us today on 0207 537 6603 or leave us an email at [email protected]

 


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