Cyber-insurance and vulnerability scanning – Week in security with Tony Anscombe

Here's how the results of vulnerability scans factor into decisions on cyber-insurance and how human intelligence comes into play in the assessment of such digital signals

Editor

16 Feb 2024

Cyber-insurance has been an increasingly hot topic lately, with the cyber-insurance industry growing by 62 percent last year following an apparent surge in new contracts. In order to qualify for a cyber insurance policy, organizations need to meet certain requirements, which includes having certain security solutions in place that reduce the risk of a cyberattack and a subsequent insurance claim.

A decision on an organization's insurability is partly made following an external vulnerability scan. These scans need to be evaluated by experts, who, among other things, need to draw a line between exposure and performance signals. What else is there to know about how vulnerability scanning factors into decisions on cyber-insurance? Find out in the video.