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10:00am – 10:05am PT

Opening Remarks

10:05am – 10:50am PT

MGA Mania

Cyber MGAs and Insurtechs are changing the game for the ever-evolving cyber marketplace. What advantages do their insurer and reinsurer partners see in the structure? How does the risk quantification process differ for Cyber Insurtechs and MGAs and what impact have they had on how the market views risk? Will these newer firms help boost cyber insurance take-up rates in the small and mid-sized enterprises (SME) market? How can brokers help their clients make their buying decisions? Listen in as the panel clears up confusion about this important topic. 

• Doug Day, Senior Vice President, Shareholder, Brown & Riding [ Moderator]
• Jamie Bouloux, President & CEO, EmergIn Risk
• Mike Karbassi, Chief Underwriting Officer, Corvus Insurance
• Rotem Iram, Founder & CEO, At-Bay
• Shawn Ram, Head of Insurance, Coalition, Inc.

10:50am – 11:35am PT

Beyond the Basics: Modern-Day Ransomware Response 

As cybercriminals have added data exfiltration and blackmail to their ransomware playbook, incident response has become much more complex. Ransomware events begin long before detection and knowing how to mitigate and respond to them can have a tremendous impact on the ultimate recovery. Have new strains of ransomware, more advanced threat actors, and OFAC considerations changed the game? How can businesses, particularly smaller and mid-sized firms, boost their ransomware resilience? How can insurers, insureds, and incident response vendors work together more effectively? This panel will examine the latest realities in ransomware and offer insight for businesses of all sizes and their insurance partners. 

• Jenny Soubra, U.S. Head of Cyber and Technology, Canopius [Moderator]
• Ben Auton, Vice President of Operations and Security Services, SpearTip
• John Lancaster, Director of Incident Response, Arete Incident Response
• Steve Morrison, Senior Director, Crypsis
• Erika Nelson, AVP, North American Claims Group, Cyber Claims Response Team, Allied World

11:35am – 11:43am PT

Shop Talk Sponsored by CrowdStrike

A Race Against the Clock: The Need For Speed To Recovery

When a breach occurs, speed to remediation and recovery is critical to minimize the impact on your business. Advanced persistent threats can quickly break out across your network, infecting your endpoints, laterally moving across your systems and disrupting your business operations. These very sophisticated, sustained cyberattacks often establish multiple points of undetected persistence in your network in order to infect your systems with malware or steal sensitive data over a prolonged period of time. These attacks are carefully planned and designed to infiltrate your organization, evade existing security measures and fly under the radar. Most importantly, if coordinated and effective countermeasures are not taken to remove all points of persistence, the attacker will continue to reinfect systems after initial remediation, causing further delays and interruptions to business recovery.

• Eric Bodkin, Director, Endpoint Recovery Services, CrowdStrike
• Adam Cottini, Director of Business Development – Americas Legal and Insurance Verticals, CrowdStrike

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10:00am – 10:05am PT

Opening Remarks

10:05am – 10:50am PT

Market Outlook: Are You Challenged Yet? 

As cyber insurance matures as a product and claims costs rise, the market is changing – but what kind of changes are we seeing? During this session, panelists will discuss how Jan. 1 reinsurance renewals will affect capacity in the marketplace and whether rising cyber insurance prices now more accurately reflect risk. Speakers will address risk quantification, potential coverage restrictions, market reactions to rising losses, and the combined impact that the pandemic and ransomware have had on how insurers view cyber risk. Cyber insurance is now a must-have for businesses of all sizes and this panel will offer a detailed look at what comes next for the market. 

• Dan Burke, Senior Vice President & Partner, National Cyber Practice Leader, Woodruff Sawyer [Moderator]
• Tim Francis, Enterprise Cyber Lead, Travelers
• Amir Kessler, Product Manager, Kovrr
• Catherine Mulligan, Global Head of Cyber Reinsurance Solutions, Aon

10:50am – 11:35am PT

The Cyber Threats Lurking in Supply Chains 

Your organization can have the best cybersecurity posture possible, but it might not matter when there’s a weak link in your supply chain. Some of the biggest cyber events in recent years have been caused by trusted third parties. How can organizations that rely on outside vendors for critical business operations ensure cybersecurity protocols are followed? How are cyber insurers approaching supply chain risk? There’s another side to this discussion keeping the insurance industry on its toes – technology vendors frequently face gray areas in their cyber and Tech E&O coverage. This panel will offer actionable guidance on both first-party and third-party vendor risks. 

• Florence Levy, Cyber Incident Management Director, Marsh USA Inc. [Moderator]
• Jamil Farshchi, CISO, Equifax
• Scott Hammesfahr, Solution Consultant, Cyence Data Listening and Risk Analytics
• Dan McDaniel, Chief Architect and Information Security Officer, Wizards of the Coast
• Alyssa R. Watzman, Vice Chair – Data Privacy & Cybersecurity, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP