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Cyber insurance to protect against cyber bullying and other personal risks ha...
Q. Why is personal cyber protection insurance necessary? Laura Murray: Because, unfortunately, cyber-crime is on the increase globally, and the COVID pandemic has only served to worsen that. As more people work from home ...Feature
Law firm Wotton + Kearney has promoted cyber, privacy and data security specialist Joseph Fitzgerald to partner. Fitzgerald advises large sporting, health, education and infrastructure bodies, as well as SME and non-profit ent...
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Liam Pomfret, AIG's Head of Cyber & Professional Indemnity, Asia Pacific, tal...
Are cyber attacks on the increase in New Zealand? If you read the media, it points towards that. From AIG’s perspective, our cyber claim count in New Zealand has been increasing each year, as it has in other regio...
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Andrew Horne and Hannah Jaques, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
Cyber-attacks on businesses and other organisations are both increasingly common and increasingly damaging. It is no longer a surprise to read a news or business website and learn of a cyber-attack that has caused significant disruption...Feature
Andrew Horne and Nick Frith, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
On Christmas Day last year, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand suffered a cyber attack. The attack involved a malicious actor gaining access to a third party file sharing application named Accellion FTA, which the Reserve Bank used to...Feature
By Jon Winsbury and Craig Furness, Gallagher Bassett
The topic of climate change is rapidly rising in prominence on the global public agenda. And, as the world experiences endless parades of catastrophes and significant events on top of the pandemic, claims surge events have become...Feature
New Zealand-headquartered insurance business Delta Insurance Group has signed an agreement with London-based specialty Lloyd’s-of-London reinsurance brokers Prospect Insurance Brokers to market and...
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by Andrew Horne, Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
New Zealand’s stock exchange, NZX, suffered cyber-attacks on six consecutive working days earlier this year. The attacks left it unable to facilitate trading in shares, in its debt market, the Fonterra shareholders’...Feature
NZX hack a reminder that any business can fall victim. By Angela Cuming
2020 has exposed our vulnerabilities in unexpected and worrying ways. The ongoing Covid-19 crisis serves as a grim reminder that global pandemics are a real and recurring threat, while the recent cyberattacks on the New Zealand...Feature
New technology can be a benefit, not a threat, to the industry. By Gallagher...
Insurers know their customers’ lives are being shaped and transformed by new technologies. These technologies are also rapidly transforming the insurance industry, which in undergoing an ecosystem disruption, largely caused by...Feature
Cyber threats aren’t just from hackers outside your business.
The greatest threat to your company and network is not the hackers and crackers on the outside trying to get in but your own employees who want to cause mischief or who inadvertently cause damage from within. A determined...Feature
Delta Insurance has partnered with global security leader DynaRisk to deliver a cyber-protection and insurance product for businesses and their employees and customers across the Asia-Pacific region. Delta Insurance Group...
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By Minter Ellison Rudd Watts
In 2018, there were more than 2000 data breaches reported to CERT NZ – just the tip of a now mammoth iceberg affecting the personal and confidential information of millions of people and businesses globally. The...Feature
New products available to insurance brokers in 2019 are a sign of the times, ...
Cyber cover is here; crypto still to come Great technology comes with great responsibility, and the insurance industry calls this “emerging risks”. While self-driving cars aren’t quite in New Zealand...Feature
A good case can be made for a radical change to insurance disclosure law, from an emphasis on non-disclosure to one on misrepresentation. This was the path which the UK reform took, and this option needs an in-depth analysis. What this...
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