Cyber Insurance for IT Professionals
1h 4mBeginner2023-07-05
Authors

Kip Boyle
Founder and CEO of Cyber Risk Opportunities
Course details
If you’re an IT professional, you may be wondering why cyber insurance has emerged as such an important topic in your field. Due to the increasing number of recent, extremely costly attacks, cyber insurance is now an essential component of an effective risk management strategy. But how do you develop a strategy that works for you when cyber insurance has become so difficult and expensive to get.
In this course, instructor Kip Boyle provides an overview of the benefits and challenges involved in obtaining cyber insurance, offering tools and tips along the way to help you navigate the hurdles of the cyber insurance application process. Learn more about why cyber insurance can be so difficult to procure, and why qualifying for a good rate and policy depends on your organization’s IT controls. Kip shares insights in a live demonstration that shows you how to complete your own application, with advice and tricks you can use to boost your odds of being approved.
In this course, instructor Kip Boyle provides an overview of the benefits and challenges involved in obtaining cyber insurance, offering tools and tips along the way to help you navigate the hurdles of the cyber insurance application process. Learn more about why cyber insurance can be so difficult to procure, and why qualifying for a good rate and policy depends on your organization’s IT controls. Kip shares insights in a live demonstration that shows you how to complete your own application, with advice and tricks you can use to boost your odds of being approved.
Skills covered
Help Desk SkillsIT Help DeskOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Why IT pros need to know cyber insurance
1. Cyber Insurance Is Maturing
- 02 - Understanding the impact of cyber risk
- 03 - Insurance and your cyber risk management program
- 04 - Insurance lawsuits over cyber coverage
2. Why Cyber Insurance Can Be Difficult to Get
- 05 - Reason 1 - Cyber is a dynamic risk
- 06 - Reason 2 - More restrictions on your computers
- 07 - Reason 3 - Cyber insurance is immature
- 08 - Reason 4 - More buyers than sellers right now
3. How to Get Cyber Insurance
- 09 - Qualifying is getting tougher every year
- 10 - Core IT controls required for everyone
- 11 - Additional IT controls for big organizations
- 12 - Completing the insurance application
- 13 - Live review of completed insurance application
- 14 - Responding to external vulnerability scan reports
4. Special Topics
- 15 - Insurance industry as a cybersecurity leader
- 16 - How can we self-insure for cyber
- 17 - Future of cyber insurance
Conclusion
- 18 - Next steps
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