Ironshore expands cyber offerings with monitoring and alert services

Certain of the insurer’s policyholders will have access to an Atlanta-based security firm that analyzes cyber activity

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A prominent property/casualty insurance company is padding out its offerings on their cyber liability product.

Ironshore Inc. announced this week that IronPro, its professional liability unit, is introducing a suite of enhanced risk management services for cyber policyholders. IronPro will provide eligible Ironshore Highly Protected Information (HPI) policyholders with cyber monitoring and alert services during the life of the policy.

IronPro has engaged BorderHawk, an Atlanta-based security firm, to offer CMAS services that analyze cyber activity to detect questionable client events.

The service generates and transmits a cyber risk warning alert to clients for immediate action in the event of a potential risk. The alert signals potential vulnerabilities or threats associated with a specific IP address, Ironshore said, thereby indicating heightened risk exposure to the client.

“We recognize that while ‘alerting’ systems can be a critical component of cyber security programs, most organizations depend on ‘accidental discovery’ to initiate investigations of malicious cyber threats,” said Steve Akridge, President of BorderHawk.  “IronPro clients will be notified when questionable activity occurs, providing a more responsive investigation when primary security tools do not recognize a potential threat.”
 
IronPro product enhancement also will feature a complimentary cybersecurity assessment and technical services review to be conducted by U.S. Homeland Security.  Homeland Security’s C3 Voluntary Program and National Cybersecurity Assessment and Technical Services (NCATS) provide an objective third party perspective on the current cybersecurity exposure within the policyholder’s network.  Ironshore HPI policyholders can then access an On-Call Third Party Chief Security Officer who can address and help remediate identified vulnerabilities.
 
“IronPro’s enhanced risk management offering complements our existing specific asset-class PrivaProtector policy form to address risk exposures for critical infrastructure insureds within the Healthcare, Financial Services, Manufacturing and Commercial Facilities sectors,” stated Kurtis Suhs, IronPro Privacy National Practice Leader and Vice President of Technology Errors & Omissions. “A more aggressive approach to cyber security protection is designed to minimize the loss associated with data breach events.”
 
Mr. Akridge noted that CMAS addresses recent reports that some malware solutions “demonstrate an estimated recognition effectiveness of only 60 percent and malware dwell times of nearly twenty-four months before discovery is the norm in detecting potential threats.”

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