Cyber Exposures: Evolving Threats and Best Practices

With an increased reliance on technology, many businesses have become keenly aware of their cyber risk - equally, it's creating more opportunities for cyber criminals looking to exploit vulnerabilities and create operational disruption or financial loss. The headlines will often report big-scale privacy events happening at major companies, but small firms and sole proprietors make up a much larger proportion of cyber claims from an insurance perspective, and ultimately, are more vulnerable.

Lindsey Nelson
Cyber Development Leader
CFC Underwriting

Learning Objectives

In this session, participants will:

• Understand the cyber risks that exist within the engineering field today and why cyber threat actors consider them targets;
• Be able to hear real life case studies of cyber insurance policyholders who experienced cyber claims, and how the coverage worked in action to respond; and
• Learn about what measures can be adopted to prevent a cyber-attack from happening before having to file a claim.

Instructor

Lindsey Nelson

Cyber Development Leader, CFC Underwriting

As Cyber Development Leader, Nelson oversees the global cyber distribution strategy across CFC’s portfolio, responsible for underwriting strategy, key account management, and providing in-depth training within the business line. Having over a decade of experience underwriting cyber and technology risks in the UK and North America, Nelson’s expertise in cyber has put her in demand for a wide range of conferences while continuing to play an active role in underwriting. She is a sought-after speaker on the topic of cyber insurance, a vocal champion for women and young brokers in insurance and was awarded ‘Underwriter of the Year’ at the Insurance Insider awards.

With over 20 years’ experience, CFC was one of the first companies to offer cyber insurance and has one of the largest cyber underwriting and in-house incident response teams in the world, bolstered by 24x7 around the world claims service. Their cyber insurance products and incident response services protect over 60,000 businesses in more than 60 countries.