Incident-Specific Cyber Insurance

In the current market practice, many cyber insurance products offer a coverage bundle for losses arising from various types of incidents, such as data breaches and ransomware attacks, and the coverage for each incident type comes with a separate limit and deductible. Although this gives prospective...

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Main Authors Chong, Wing Fung, Linders, Daniel, Quan, Zhiyu, Zhang, Linfeng
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 01.08.2023
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Quantitative Finance - Risk Management
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Summary:In the current market practice, many cyber insurance products offer a coverage bundle for losses arising from various types of incidents, such as data breaches and ransomware attacks, and the coverage for each incident type comes with a separate limit and deductible. Although this gives prospective cyber insurance buyers more flexibility in customizing the coverage and better manages the risk exposures of sellers, it complicates the decision-making process in determining the optimal amount of risks to retain and transfer for both parties. This paper aims to build an economic foundation for these incident-specific cyber insurance products with a focus on how incident-specific indemnities should be designed for achieving Pareto optimality for both the insurance seller and buyer. Real data on cyber incidents is used to illustrate the feasibility of this approach. Several implementation improvement methods for practicality are also discussed.
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.2308.00921