Cyber risk is one of the most pertinent global threats facing the world today. With firms’ and individuals’ reliance on technology only set to increase, the frequency and severity of cyber incidents is likely to rise in turn. The cyber insurance market is set to undergo significant growth in the coming years, accelerated by increasing levels of liability and data protection regulation. Geneva School of Business Administration’s Professor Christophe Courbage offers an overview of a new issue of The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance dedicated to cyber.
The latest issue of The Geneva Papers on Risk and Insurance, guest edited by Professor M Martin Boyer, is dedicated to cyber risks and insurance, a topic growing in popularity not only amongst academics, but also amongst corporate researchers.
This special issue focuses on both the demand and supply side of cyber risk insurance and covers three broad themes:
The cost of cyber events
Palsson, Gudmundsson and Shetty (Analysis of the impact of cyber events for cyber insurance) investigate exposure to cyber incidents across corporate sectors. They find that malicious breach incidents dominate cyber threats across…
