Tuesday, April 7, 2020

The Growing Need for Cyberliability Insurance

How increased online and electronic activity exposes congregations to new risks.

Bobby Ross Jr.

Last Reviewed: April 7, 2020

For consumers, recent news stories are frightening—and increasingly familiar:

  • A massive data breach involving the credit reporting agency Equifax exposed millions of Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, names, and dates of birth.
  • The web service provider Yahoo acknowledged that a data breach touched 3 billion of its accounts—three times as many as originally revealed.
Not long before the Equifax and Yahoo headlines, national retailers such as Target and Home Depot suffered major data breaches that involved millions of stolen credit card numbers.

On top of this, consider these insights from The Kiplinger Letter:

  • Demand for cyber insurance is zooming as the number of cyberattacks rises. Cyber policies cover financial losses from a range of attacks, from data theft to digital extortion. The average total cost for a data breach was more than $7 million in 2017. The ...

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