IQUW’s Kriesel: Better cybersecurity among insureds resulting in further extortion threats

IQUW’s head of professional lines and specialty claims has said insureds’ better security and preparation means commercial ransomware victims often may not need to pay a ransom to regain access to their data, but this could lead to extortion by “bad actors” with the threat to publish their data.

 

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