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Cyber Insurance

Why choose Zurich for cyber insurance?

Zurich’s Cyber Insurance policies provide real solutions for the cyber risks customers face. Our comprehensive coverage solutions and dedicated cyber professionals help customers respond rapidly to the impacts of cyberattacks. We have the flexibility to write both primary and excess coverages.

Cyber risk is a global concern. The security event affecting your company today may have been launched hours, minutes, or days earlier from the other side of the world. Zurich’s global footprint, expertise, and knowledge base allow us to coordinate a vast reservoir of cyber data to deliver rapid responses to affected customers.

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If your organization is experiencing a cyber incident, access Zurich’s cyber claims reporting and incident response resources.

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Small to midsized companies

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Large and global companies

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Zurich policyholders can request a complimentary onboarding session with Zurich Resilience Solutions by email: cyberRE@zurichna.com

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Cybersecurity: Resources for resilience

Zurich has been helping businesses strengthen their cyber resilience for over 20 years. See how our experience and insights can help you.

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Cyber insurance helps protect your company against information security risk and helps mitigate financial loss. Exposures include pervasive security threats like cyber extortion exfiltration and compromise of personal information, social engineering fraud, malicious acts of rogue employees, and other events that can damage your computer system, corrupt your digital assets, and impact your company’s reputation, good will and the bottom line.

Today, business is digital and highly reliant upon technology to operate efficiently and deliver services to clients, which means companies are increasingly vulnerable to cyber events from email phishing and social engineering to ransomware and other perils, which can give rise to significant expense, downtime, loss of production, and business income loss. If your business depends on computer systems and other digital resources to serve customers, connect with vendors, manage payrolls, administer employee benefit programs, and store sensitive user and customer information, you need cyber insurance.

Cybercriminals are becoming more aggressive and innovative every day, increasing the threat environment for companies of all sizes and industries. A major, 2022 cybersecurity industry survey1 reported:

  • 83% of companies surveyed reported at least one data breach

  • $4.35 million was the average total cost of a data breach

  • 11% of attacks were from ransomware, averaging $4.54 million per event

From malware attacks and social engineering scams to data breaches via the Internet of Things and mobile devices, what all cybersecurity events have in common is that they are more than challenges to network security. They are full-blown risk management threats that demand innovation, resilience, and holistic solutions to mitigate against the significant, potentially long-lasting damage from a hack or data breach on your company.  Following a hack or data breach, companies are also vulnerable to class action litigation and investigations from regulatory agencies.

1. Cost of a Data Breach Report 2022. IBM Security

Ransomware is a form of malicious software that encrypts a business's files, rendering computer systems unusable. The attackers then demand a payment to restore access. This can disrupt operations for days or even weeks, leading to significant financial and reputational damage.

A Data Breach involves the unauthorized access and disclosure of sensitive or confidential information. This can include customer data, employee records or intellectual property. The costs associated with managing a breach—from notification to credit monitoring—can be substantial.

Social Engineering Fraud manipulates employees into divulging confidential information or making fraudulent payments. These schemes, such as phishing emails, prey on human trust to bypass technical security controls, turning a simple email into a costly event.

How Cyber Insurance Helps Businesses Respond

When a cyber event occurs, a swift and structured response is critical to minimizing its impact. Cyber insurance is designed to provide the resources and financial support businesses need during these high-stakes moments. It supports structured response planning and execution.

Zurich works with your business to help you navigate the complexities of a cyber incident. Our cyber policies are structured to address a range of cyber exposures and provide access to incident response resources to help manage a crisis. Coverage is designed to address costs associated with investigating an event, notifying affected parties and recovering data. For instance, in the event of a ransomware attack, coverage can help with the costs of restoring your systems and responding to the threat. Following a data breach, it can help manage the expenses of regulatory compliance and public relations.

Having this support structure in place allows your business to focus on recovery and operational continuity, knowing you are prepared to act decisively.

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