General Insurance Article - Over USD1bn estimated insured losses from CrowdStrike event

 This scale of loss could make the CrowdOut event the largest single insured loss event in the history of the affirmative cyber insurance industry over the past 20 years. At the same time, an event of this scale does not come close to the extreme scenarios currently being modeled by cyber insurers and reinsurers.

 Based on CyberCube’s current estimates, the event represents a loss somewhere between the 1-in-2 and the 1-in-6 year industry loss return periods, according to the company’s cyber catastrophe model and industry exposure database. CyberCube’s Portfolio Manager product, which is used by 30 of the 40 largest US and European cyber insurers, shows far more destructive scenarios that can reach loss ratios of 234% in more extreme events at 1-in-200 year return periods. As such, the CrowdOut event is a major event for the cyber insurance market but does not come close to the destructive potential that leading insurers are holding capital against.

 CyberCube’s current estimates are provisional and based on the best information we have available, as the event is still unfolding, with a relatively significant percentage of systems yet to be restored. Each insurance carrier’s claims experience depends on some pivotal criteria relating to the characteristics of their specific portfolio including coverage for non-malicious system failure, contingent business interruption (CBI), and the makeup of insureds in that portfolio. While each insurance portfolio will substantively differ in these respects and as such it would not be accurate to apply cyber insurance market share allocations to reach an individual carrier’s loss potential, we expect carriers to see disproportionate losses in portfolios that have significant large corporate exposures.

 CyberCube's Cyber Aggregation Event Response Service (CAERS) was activated as a result of the CrowdOut event. CAERS provides up-to-date intelligence on major cyber catastrophes worldwide as they unfold to ensure CyberCube clients have information that is relevant and tailored to the insurance market. CyberCube will continue to monitor this developing event and provide support for customers in calculating the impact on their own cyber insurance portfolios.