France’s Ministry of Economy, Finance, and Industrial & Digital Sovereignty on Wednesday announced an action plan to develop cyber risk insurance.
According to the ministry, the digitisation of the economy creates new vulnerabilities for companies, and contributes, in particular, to the emergence of cyber risk.
“As they increase in volume, frequency and complexity, cyber attacks today have the potential to threaten the survival of a business,’’ the ministry said in a press release, adding that “resilience to cyber risk is therefore a major issue of sovereignty.
“Cyber risk is still relatively uninsured, and represents only nearly 3 per cent of damage insurance contributions for professionals,’’ the ministry said.
The action plan contained four major parts, clarifying the legal framework for cyber risk insurance, promoting a better assessment of cyber risk, improving the sharing of risk information between policyholders.
While other plans were insurers and reinsurers with innovative solutions of insurance, and increasing the efforts to raise awareness of cyber risk to companies. (NAN)