Cyberinsurance Policy Rethinking Risk in an Age of Ransomware, Computer Fraud, Data Breaches, and Cyberattacks

• Main Author: Wolff, Josephine (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Series: Information Policy
• Subjects: Insurance & actuarial studies; Network security; Regional government policies; Cybersecurity; cyberinsurance; cyber risk management; history of insurance; systemic risk; catastrophic risk; interconnected risk
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Why cyberinsurance has not improved cybersecurity and what governments can do to make it a more effective tool for cyber risk management. As cybersecurity incidents-ranging from data breaches and denial-of-service attacks to computer fraud and ransomware-become more common, a cyberinsurance industry...