[SystemSafety] Insurance and cyber security

[Martyn Thomas]

The risk of cyber attack is obvious and pervasive - it's like the threat
of bad weather - so it may be insurable*if you have taken all reasonable
precautions*. Such precautions should be propotionate to the risk: by
which I mean proportionate to the threaat *and* to the potential scale
of the loss. In my opinion, running Windows or most other commercial
software wouldn't pass that test (and leaving it unpatched certainly
wouldn't).

Martyn

On 31/12/2018 19:55, grivsta at gmail.com wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> If a cyber attack is considered to be an act of war a new battle will
> begin.
>
> https://www.techlawx.com/blog/notpetya-insurance-coverage-dispute
>
> Zurich is not honouring a claim by Mondelez for loss resulting from
> the NotPetya event by asserting force majeure.
>
> Is it better to spend your money on improving systems rather than tort?
>
> Daniel.
>
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