InsuranceERM published more than 1,300 news items and 100 features during 2019. Statistics from our website show these were the most popular stories for the year…
Ransomware scenario envisages $193bn loss
This story from January 2019 covered the launch of a cyber loss scenario developed by the Cyber Risk Management (CyRiM) coalition, led by Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University’s Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre.
Insurers’ hunger to understand the potential losses from cyber risks probably accounts for the popularity of this story – along with the huge figure in the headline.
Insurers rank their most dangerous risks for 2019
Enterprise risk management experts Dave Ingram and Mark Mennemeyer put together this February 2019 article based on a poll of 186 insurance executives asking which risks they expected to be “most dangerous” in the coming year.
The top three were:
- Strategic direction & opportunities missed: Few respondents felt confident with their own – or their management’s – ability to make all the right choices for their companies’ future directions.
- Cybersecurity & cybercrime: Cyber remained a major risk, though not the top…
