Cyber Research

Guest Blog: Cyber risk and cybersecurity: A systematic review of data availability

The following article is a guest blog by Frank Cremer, currently a PHD candidate at the technical University of Cologne about his and his co-authors newest paper, systemtically tabulating and reviewing existing cyber risk and security research papers and datasets (). We highly recommend to check out the paper itself with its many interesting insights […]

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Cyentia “Ripples” Report: Massive Increase in Supply Chain Frequency and Sophistication

In the report Ripples Across The Risk Surface (), the Cyentia Institute investigates supply chain cyber attack. Cyentia defines Ripples as supply chain cyber attacks that have cascading effects, causing widespread damage to companies. In these attacks, the primary victim, also known as ripple generator, unintentionally spreads the cyber attack to its associated companies. These

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H1/2021 Suggested Reading: Cyber Insurance Market undergoing massive transformation; Reports by Coalition, Howden, Verizon DBIR

After the surge of cyber crime during the COVID 19 pandemic, spearheaded by a surge in ransomware attacks, the renewals on January 1st 2021 were the by far most anticipated in the history of cyber insurance. With year-over-year price increases of roughly 30% across the board on 1/1 (), the market has indeed entered a

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Cyber Insurance Incident Response: Market tends towards commoditization with competitive prices; increasing VC and M&A activity; Cyber Insurance has built an overall effective System to help especially SME clients

In the context of economic welfare, the key fact of cyber insurance that sets it apart from likely any other insurance type is the possibility through efficient and economic incident response to limit and reduce damages acting as  the equivalent of a fire brigade where there is no such service yet. However, as pointed out

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New RUSI report showcases the gap between theory and reality for a still unsophisticated cyber insurance market

A new report released by the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), authored by Jamie McColl, Jason Nurse, and James Sullivan, analyzes the role of the cyber insurance industry as an enabler and facilitator for public policy makers aiming to increase the cyber maturity of a given economy (). The question of the role of cyber

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