Cybersecurity and privacy

Cybersecurity is on the mind of every business executive, whether the company is large, mid-sized or small. Data and intellectual property, as well as business processes supported by IT, may be your company’s most valuable assets. Protecting those assets from a cyberthreat requires a seamless integration of cybersecurity strategy and risk transfer. Zurich’s cyber specialists are ready to deliver industry-leading solutions that help address your cyber risk management needs. We are committed to helping you safeguard your company’s information assets.

Why Zurich?

Zurich has been providing comprehensive insurance solutions around the globe for more than 140 years. Zurich insures more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies and provides comprehensive solutions and insights for 25 industries. We also continue to maintain strong financial ratings.

In addition to knowledgeable cybersecurity and privacy professionals, Zurich’s Risk Services team is dedicated to cyber-related issues and produces predictive analytics in collaboration with our Claims team and underwriters. When Zurich professionals apply these insights to your company, the wide range of cyber risk and privacy issues can be addressed.

Through our strategic relationships, qualified Zurich customers have access to breach coaching and employee training programs. These services can help build awareness to ensure compliance with local regulations.

Cybersecurity and privacy solutions

Zurich Cyber Insurance Policy

Zurich’s Cyber Insurance Policy offers a convenient, unified solution with coverages and features that can be customized to meet the specialized needs of mid-sized and large corporate customers. The program brings together features often attached to other commercial policies as individual endorsements with coverage limits up to US$25 million.

Key coverages

Liability coverages include:

Security and Privacy Liability
Regulatory proceedings defense costs
Civil fines and penalties associated with Payment Card Industry (PCI) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Media liability coverage

Non-liability coverages include:

Privacy breach costs, including:
- Forensic investigation expenses
- Legal and public relations expenses
- Credit and identity monitoring costs
- Identity restorations and identity theft insurance costs
- Call centre costs
Business income loss, dependent business income loss (i.e., loss insured incurs due to a vendor’s network security event) and extra expense
Cyber extortion threats and reward payments
Digital asset replacement expenses
Cyber extortion threats and reward payments
System failures and dependent system failures
Reputational damages
Social Engineering Funds Transfer Fraud
Claims Avoidance coverage

Zurich Cyber Insurance Policy brochure

Cyber Risk Services

Zurich’s team of skilled Cyber Risk Specialists offers insights and guidance for customers seeking to better understand, manage and mitigate their cyber risk. Our team has a wide range of security experience as both practitioners and consultants in such industries as retail/wholesale, banking, insurance, professional services and the military. Our recommendations can be used by your information security team to help make your company’s computing environment and business more secure and resilient against cyberattacks.

Effective and robust cybersecurity requires an information security management system (ISMS) built on three pillars: people, process and technology.

People

A sampling of our people services includes:

Board of directors and C-suite education
User awareness training addressing the following:
- Phishing
- Social engineering
- Password standards and management
- Business email compromise
Security team training
Hiring practice security guidelines
Access management
- Users
- Vendors
- Privileged users
- Remote users

Process

We can assist in the development of processes, including:

Cybersecurity strategy
Capability roadmap
Policies and procedures
- Acceptable use
- Asset management
  - Vulnerability management
  - Patch management
- Risk assessment
- Vendor management
- Incident response
- Disaster recovery
Management metrics for cybersecurity

Technology

Some of our recommendations may involve specialized technology solutions available through established referral arrangements with leading security vendors and consultants. These firms can provide products and services to Zurich customers at a reduced cost.

Cyber Risk Services fact sheet

For more information, contact:

Risk Services
(416) 586 2740
riskservices@zurich.com

Data breach response resources

Following a breach, obtaining a technical and legal provider with the proper experience is important. Zurich offers its qualified customers a complimentary half-hour consultation with an experienced cyber-breach coach.

In addition, Zurich qualified customers can have access to a privacy lawyer to help them assess whether or not a computer forensics investigation is needed, or whether breach notifications are required. You may wish to contact the following approved third-party providers* to assist you in the event of a breach:

Data breach coaches: Dolden Wallace Folick, LLP

Data breach response services:

AllClear ID: Available services include notification and call centre, and credit/identity monitoring/fraud remediation
ID experts: Available services include forensic investigation and notification and call centre
NPC’s Immersion Data Breach Response: Available services include notification and call centre
Kroll, Inc.: Available services include forensic investigation, notification and call centre, and credit/identity monitoring/fraud remediation

*The third-party service providers are not subsidiaries or affiliates of Zurich and use of their products and services are independent of, and not included within, any of Zurich’s products or services. Zurich does not guarantee the effectiveness or any results of any of the services provided by the third-party service providers. Zurich does not assume any liability and expressly disclaims any and all damages and other costs that may arise related to the use of or reliance upon the products, services, representations or warranties made by or on behalf of the third-party service providers.

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