I hope that insurance actuaries and other insurance professionals tasked with pricing and writing cyber insurance policies ask themselves questions like these: Are we taking into account that as we continue to sell cyber insurance in the Cyber Age, that AI technologies and their applications are increasingly making the risk space behave more indeterminate -… Continue reading A Few Insurer Cyber Cover Questions for 2025 (Reprint from August, 2025)
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The Cyber Medium is the Message
The insurance industry is shifting from one portfolio of risk events that it has identified and managed profitably for thousands of years to a new, and significantly different portfolio of risk events: a plethora of cyber risk events that the insurance industry erroneously believes it can successfully identify and manage profitably. Specifically, the insurance industry… Continue reading The Cyber Medium is the Message
The “Every Day-ness” of Black Swans in the Cyber Age
Too many people throw around the term "Black Swan" willy-nilly (a technical phrase for 'far too quickly without justification'). Systemic cyber events will become the norm. These systemic cyber events will all be "white swans". I suggest that most cyber attacks are systemic cyber attacks, but currently not with the reach of the CrowdStrike cyber… Continue reading The “Every Day-ness” of Black Swans in the Cyber Age
The Cyber Age: a Few Thoughts
One thought : when did the Cyber Age start? It's not just a nice-to-know question. Regardless of when it began, the Cyber Age is enabled by a foundation of five technologies (digitization, mobility, cloud, web, and AI) and their concomitant applications that dramatically changed how society interacts within itself, including conducting (or consuming, if you… Continue reading The Cyber Age: a Few Thoughts
Insurer Cyber Strategy In a Cyber-Forming New World (V 1.0) (Minimally updated March 27, 2024)
Strategy: a concept loaded with many facets and meanings I know there are different views, definitions, and descriptions of strategy: what is it, what does it mean, why does a corporation need a strategy, and how does a corporation create a strategy are only a few questions about strategy. I don't plan to answer any… Continue reading Insurer Cyber Strategy In a Cyber-Forming New World (V 1.0) (Minimally updated March 27, 2024)
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