Cybersecurity Insurance: The Fundamentals and Value Before the Breach

Every college and university using technology to deliver services to students, faculty, and staff face cyber risk. As security professionals, we understand critical security controls are a set of actions implemented to mitigate these risks. Another way to manage risk is to transfer the risk via the purchase of cybersecurity insurance, which has created a new vocabulary for security professionals. This session will decrypt cybersecurity insurance into an understandable and purposeful risk-management tool and outline resources and services provided through cybersecurity insurance policies that help identify and reduce risk, thus adding value before you have a breach.

OUTCOMES: Learn about cybersecurity insurance policies and resources available from them * Understand insurance vocabulary and how to use cybersecurity insurance as a risk mitigation control in your institution * Learn how to review your own insurance policies and how your Information Security and Risk Management programs can benefit from these policies before a breach