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August 11

Current trends in the Cyber Insurance Market

The current trends in the cyber insurance market include:

πŸ“Œ Market Growth: The cyber insurance market is projected to grow from USD 16.66 billion in 2023 to USD 84.62 billion by 2030, with a CAGR of 26.1% during the forecast period.

πŸ“Œ Geographical Dominance: North America is expected to dominate the cyber insurance market during the forecast period.

πŸ“Œ Demand Increase: There is a strong demand for cyber insurance due to the rising adoption of public cloud services, evolving workspace models, increasing cybersecurity threats, and the need for technological advancements.

πŸ“Œ Market Stabilization: After a period of rapid premium increases, the market is beginning to stabilize. This is due to insurers improving their risk evaluation methods, new market entrants providing coverage, and the natural balancing of supply and demand.

πŸ“Œ Stricter Underwriting: Insurers are developing stricter requirements for policies, which has led to a decline in the number of insurable companies and an increase in demand.

πŸ“Œ Focus on Risk Management: Cyber risk management is becoming a core focus in a digitized world, and cyber insurance is seen as an essential part of this. The industry is working towards facilitating a sustainable cyber insurance market.

πŸ“Œ Technological Trends Impact: Future cyberattacks are expected to be accelerated by key technology trends such as artificial intelligence, the metaverse, and the convergence of IT, IoT, and operational technology (OT), which will create new attack surfaces and systemic risks.

πŸ“Œ Coverage Restrictions: Carriers are expected to restrict coverage for systemic risks, and underwriters are continuing to focus on security controls.

πŸ“Œ Price Normalization: Price increases for cyber insurance have tailed off in the fourth quarter of 2022, indicating a trend towards price normalization.

πŸ“Œ Increased Self-insured Retentions: Self-insured retentions continue to increase, which means that insured parties are retaining more risk before insurance coverage kicks in.

πŸ“Œ Primary Limit Changes: Primary limit decreases, which had been a trend, subsided throughout 2022