Best 10 Books for Cyber Insurance

Best 10 Books for Cyber Insurance:

The demand for cyber insurance is expected to grow exponentially over the next decade. Do the people selling and buying this valuable coverage understand the ins and outs of the product?

Do they understand the risks, threats, vulnerabilities, etc.?

We don’t expect everyone to be Bill Gates, a computer programmer or cyber security expert/businessman John Mcafee… but there are certain minimum requirements to have as a foundation for consumers and insurance professionals.

These are the Best 10 Books for Cyber Insurance:

Cyber Insurance Basics: an Installment in the Building Blocks Series of Insurance Content

An engaging and entertaining introduction to cyber insurance exposures and coverages. This book will help understand the risks of loss related to private data, network security, web and other digital media, and hazards of the digital world.

Insurance coverages available to protect against these losses, and basic objections to purchasing coverage are also addressed.

This book is written predominantly for retail insurance agents, and includes sales tools such agents will find helpful. The cyber self-assessment and executive protection checklists are also useful for all risk management minded businesses.

Cyber Insurance 2015: Guide for Small and Medium Sized Businesses

Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) are particularly popular targets for cyber attacks. Knowing that these smaller businesses likely don’t have the resources required to fend off such attacks, and that they likely don’t have the budgets for the most sophisticated software solutions to prevent them, hackers are targeting SMBs more and more, doing huge amounts of damage in the process.

Some of the coverages that cyber insurance offers overlap with other forms of business insurance, but many coverages do not cover cyber risks. Having a broker who understands cyber insurance and who can provide you with coverage that is specifically customized to your SMB’s needs is imperative to having adequate insurance.

In this book, we’ll take a look at the threats, the insurance options and why your SMB should have this coverage.

Online and Under Attack: What Every Business Needs To Do Now To Manage Cyber Risk and Win Its Cyber War

This book aims to arm corporate leaders with the weapons to fight back. The reader will be equipped with the tools to create and implement a comprehensive cyber risk management program. The multi-faceted approach provides a unique perspective from both the hacker and the victim’s lens. This book provides key insights into the latest hacking techniques, technology defense, privacy law, government initiatives, insurance risk transfer products , best practices in data breach response and predictions into the future of the “Internet of Things”.

The Cyber Risk Handbook: Creating and Measuring Effective Cybersecurity Capabilities (Wiley Finance)

The Cyber Risk Handbook is the practitioner’s guide to implementing, measuring and improving the counter-cyber capabilities of the modern enterprise. The first resource of its kind, this book provides authoritative guidance for real-world situations, and cross-functional solutions for enterprise-wide improvement. Beginning with an overview of counter-cyber evolution, the discussion quickly turns practical with design and implementation guidance for the range of capabilities expected of a robust cyber risk management system that is integrated with the enterprise risk management (ERM) system. Expert contributors from around the globe weigh in on specialized topics with tools and techniques to help any type or size of organization create a robust system tailored to its needs.

Cyber Liability & Insurance (Commercial Lines)

This book is designed to provide information and guidance to employees of all levels looking for ways to best handle the ever-changing and emerging world of intellectual property, its related issues, and associated risk management concerns.

* Information on identifying, managing and controlling e-risk, including cybercrime and e-discovery

* Includes executive’s guide for protecting electronically stored information

Dark Territory: The Secret History of Cyber War

This book goes into the never-before-told story of the computer scientists and the NSA, Pentagon, and White House policymakers who invent and employ cyber wars—where every country can be a major power player and every hacker a mass destroyer.

Cybersecurity for Beginners

This book provides an easy insight into the essentials of cybersecurity, even if you have a non-technical background. You may be a business person keen to understand this important subject area or an information security specialist looking to update your knowledge.

Hacking: The Blueprint to Advance Techniques to Computer Hacking and Cyber Security (CyberPunk Blueprint Series)

Here come Advance Techniques to Computer Hacking and Cyber Security from the Bestselling authors Cyberpunk Architects. In the much-anticipated follow-up book the authors go into more detail than ever before on how you can protect yourself (and others) online by knowing everything you need to know when it comes to advanced hacking techniques. What better way to learn to protect or the risks than from the Hackers themselves…

Cyber War: The Next Threat to National Security and What to Do About It

Every concerned American should read this startling and explosive book that offers an insider’s view of White House ‘Situation Room’ operations and carries the reader to the frontlines of our cyber defense. Cyber War exposes a virulent threat to our nation’s security.

Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What Everyone Needs to Know

In Cybersecurity and CyberWar: What Everyone Needs to Know®, New York Times best-selling author P. W. Singer and noted cyber expert Allan Friedman team up to provide the kind of easy-to-read, yet deeply informative resource book that has been missing on this crucial issue of 21st century life. Written in a lively, accessible style, filled with engaging stories and illustrative anecdotes, the book is structured around the key question areas of cyberspace and its security: how it all works, why it all matters, and what can we do?