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Personal Data Breach

In the hyper-connected world of today, these breaches are a threat to both organizations and people. Teams in charge of security no longer ask themselves if an attack is coming, but when and how to plan for it. When a business has a data breach, it faces a wide range of effects and risks that can hurt them in many ways, and figuring out what happened can be very expensive. When companies invest in information security, they often do so to protect their private data and the personal information of their customers. In the past few years, privacy problems have been reported often enough to make people wonder if companies have the right incentives to keep customer information safe.

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Understanding Cyber Insurance

Cyber insurance (Cyb-Ins), which is also known as cybersecurity insurance or cyber liability insurance is a type of non-life insurance, that protects organizations from the loss (mostly financial) incurred from cyber-attacks and or data breaches. It is a risk treatment option organizations adopt to protect themselves in the event of information security or cyber security incidents. Such security incidents may include business email compromise, denial of service, ransomware, data loss, theft of money, fraud, etc. Just like any other insurance product, Cyb-Ins may cover first-party and or third-party liabilities. According to ‘MarketsandMarkets’, the global Cyb-Ins market is expected to grow from approximately USD 12 billion this year to USD 29 billion in the next 5 years.

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Ransomware Attacks

According to Wikipedia, the generic meaning of the word ransom is the payment made to a captor for the release of a captive (person) or a valuable. This meaning does not differ in the world of cybersecurity since the concept remains that a captor (cybercrime actor) captures the data belonging to an organization or person by using specialized software tools (ransomware) to encrypt the data or by modifying the access path to the data so that the legitimate owner of the data is denied access to it either in full or in part and sometimes to exfiltrate the data. In most cases, the motivation of these cybercriminals is to demand the payment of ransom to them by the owners of the system or data.

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