11:30am – 12:10pm

Battle of the Breach Coaches 

Breach coaches face misconceptions around the cyber incident response process all the time – now they’re here to set the record straight in a lively debate!  Our expert panel will discuss coordination of event response, including multi-party events; crisis communication strategies; insight into the claims process; and highlight the top mistakes made during cyber events.

Panelists:

• Violet Sullivan, Redpoint Cybersecurity (Moderator)
• Jennifer Coughlin, Mullen Coughlin
• James Gimbi, MOXFIVE
• Lindsay Nickle, Lewis Brisbois
• Joe Niemczyk, Markel

11:30am – 12:10pm 

Policy Crafting for a Sustainable Future 

As cyber risks evolve, so too must cyber insurance policy wordings to promote pricing stability and contract certainty. This panel will address how the expanding risk landscape will shape policy language going forward. Speakers will look at realistic cyber-disaster scenarios — including geopolitical conflict and widespread events – as well as examining the future of insuring systemic cyber risks.

Panelists:

• Mark Camillo, CyberAcuView (Moderator)
• John Coletti, Swiss Re
• Helga Munger, Munich Re
• Tamara Snowdon, Marsh
• Vincent Vitkowsky, Gfeller Laurie LLP

11:30am – 12:10pm 

Desperately Seeking Cyber Capacity 

Despite rising prices, cyber insurance demand isn’t slowing down. The market needs to bolster its financial wherewithal to meet the current and future needs and truly achieve sustainability. Our panel will offer an update on the reinsurance market and discuss how lack of capacity can hinder the primary market’s growth strategies. We’ll also look at other innovative avenues to capacity, including captive use for cyber, parametrics, and insurance-linked securities (ILS).

Panelists:

• James Dominguez, Gallagher Re (Moderator)
• Erica Davis, Guy Carpenter
• Meghan Hannes, Beazley
• Annamaria Landaverde, Munich Re
• Ho-Tay Ma, SCOR

12:20 – 1:00pm

Herding CATs: Cyber Claims Aggregation

From NotPetya to Log4j, a defining risk of cyberattacks has been the chance to strike multiple parties at once. In additional to financial exposure, cyber incident response and coordination could prove taxing for the cyber market. How are incident response professionals working with the insurance industry to ensure that claims will be remediated as expeditiously as possible? What sort of scenarios could lead to a widespread event? Our panelists will cover potential demand surge, inflationary costs, insurance response to aggregation, and how to prepare well in advance of a cyber-catastrophe.

Panelists:

• Wade Baker, PhD, Cyentia Institute (Moderator)
• Devon Ackerman, Kroll
• Lucas Doucette, CyberCube
• Anthony Hess, Asceris
• Phil Rosace, Vantage Risk

12:20 – 1:00pm

Know Before You Go: Presenting Your Risk to Underwriters

Cyber underwriting has changed dramatically over the last 18 months, necessitating much more preparation from brokers and buyers. Buyers need to be able to tell their story effectively and demonstrate their holistic approach to cyber risk management in the application process. The panel will discuss underwriting accounts with past losses, what can lead to misrepresentation of the risk and how to avoid it.

Panelists:

• Yosha DeLong, Mosaic (Moderator)
• Robert Barberi, WTW
• Alexandra Bretschneider, Johnson Kendall & Johnson
• John Menefee, Travelers

12:20 – 1:00pm

Digging into Cyber MGAs and Insurtechs

Much has been made of the impact of cyber managing general agents (MGAs) and InsurTechs. Are they pulling ahead of the traditional-insurer pack in terms of scaling cyber insurance to a smaller business audience and offering speedy policy administration and processing? How can they help the industry make rules-based underwriting more approachable? The panel will discuss how the impact of insurtechs on risk quantification, pricing, and more.

Panelists:

• Shannon Groeber, CFC Underwriting (Moderator)
• Emy Donavan, Boost Insurance
• Miko French, Coalition
• Matthew Jones, Cowbell Cyber
• Courtney Maugé, Esq., NFP

2:00 – 2:40 pm

Threat Level Midnight: Using Cyberattack Intel Effectively 

Monitoring the speedy evolution of cyber threats can put organizations and their cyber risk partners on a more even playing field. We’ll examine the latest developments (ransomware isn’t the only show in town), how insurers work with law enforcement officials to detect and prevent attacks, and how threat intelligence can assist in attack attribution. The panel will address translating the “white noise” of threat intelligence into concrete steps to improve cybersecurity profiles.

Panelists:

• Michael Phillips, Resilience (Moderator)
• Heather Balas, CrowdStrike Services
• Catherine Lyle, Coalition
• Rose McRobbie, CFC Underwriting
• Kurt Sanger, U.S. Cyber Command
• Nicole Sette, Kroll

2:00 – 2:40 pm

Cyber Shop Talks

The Road to Becoming Low Risk with BlueVoyant and Microsoft
Join BlueVoyant and Microsoft to learn how we help organizations become ideal candidates for cyber insurers. Learn how our security solutions reduce an organization’s cyber risk with risk-based threat analytics, advanced technology, and 24×7 monitoring coupled with expert incident remediation. We offer new visibility and response strategies to help customers more easily obtain cyber insurance by giving insurers the confidence needed during the underwriting process.
Speakers: Mona Ghadiri, BlueVoyant; Jennifer Mulvihill, BlueVoyant; Jim Demarco, Microsoft

Why MFA is Critical for Legacy Systems with Silverfort
As cyberattacks accelerate, ransomware has become a critical business threat. This is because attackers are increasingly exploiting security blind spots found in legacy systems. But with the ability to enforce MFA everywhere, you can stop threat actors in their tracks. Learn about the power of united identity protection.
Speaker: John Paul Cunningham, Silverfort

Cultivating Resilience In Times of Crisis with The Beckage Firm

In our industry, crisis preparedness is critical to the insureds and clients we represent, and also for our internal teams and ourselves. This session will address  retaining a positive work culture, leveraging diverse teams, and how a critical event can bring opportunities for change in how we navigate and manage crises for others and ourselves.

Speaker: Jennifer A. Beckage, Esq., CIPP/US, CIPP/E, The Beckage Firm

2:00 – 2:40 pm

BEC and Beyond: Keeping Pace with Evolving Threats

Achieving cyber sustainability calls for keeping pace with exposure evolution and incorporating those insights into the underwriting process. Organizations also need to understand how best to prevent threats like social engineering. We’ll offer an update on how underwriting is responding to trends like business email compromise, software vulnerabilities, and human error; and discuss how underwriters and organizations can stay ahead of evolving cyber threats.

Panelists:

• Cinthia Granados Motley, Dykema (moderator)
• John Merchant, Falcon Risk Services
• Preston Miller, Unit 42, Palo Alto Networks
• Eric Skinner, TrendMicro
• Emma Werth Fekkas, Cowbell Cyber

2:50 – 3:30 pm

Battling Business Interruption Impacts

Ransom payments make the headlines, but business interruption has emerged as one of the biggest drivers of cyber-related losses in recent years. In addition to the toll it takes on organizations, business interruption can add years to the life of a cyber insurance claim. This panel will examine how policies are responding to business interruption, statistics on costs, forensic accounting perspectives, and advice on reducing downtime from the experts.

Panelists:

• Jodi Beaubien, The Beckage Firm (Moderator)
• Michelle Faylo, Lockton
• Kara Higginbotham, Zurich
• John Petzold, BDO
• Mike Wilkinson, Avertium

2:50 – 3:30 pm

Beyond the Headlines: Improving Loss Ratios

Rate increases show signs of moderation and industry observers say insurer loss ratios have been trending downward. Will the future be smoother sailing for cyber insurance in the coming months, or are challenges still on the horizon? With tougher underwriting, sublimits, and the focus on cyber hygiene, is ransomware now a manageable threat for the industry?

Panelists:

• David Lewison, AmWINS Brokerage Group (Moderator)
• Nick Economidis, Crum & Forster
• Christine Mapes, Arete
• Shiraz Saeed, Arch Insurance
• Scott Hammesfahr, Guidewire

2:50 – 3:30 pm

Using Data to Assess Insurability 

Cyber insurance underwriters and buyers have been faced with challenging conditions regarding risk selection and pricing as the cyber insurance market has been tested and proven resilient over the past couple of years. Underpinning and informing underwriters’ efforts are an increasing amount of risk data that until recently, haven’t been significantly interrogated for their correlation to breach based on real cyber insurance claims data. This session will review new research on claims and discuss how to solve some of cyber insurance’s most pressing challenges.

Panelists:

• Rachel Rossini, AXA XL (Moderator)
• Aaron Aanenson, BitSight
• Brian Dusek, Mosaic Insurance
• Scott Stransky, Marsh