Siobhan O'Brien, Head of the Cyber Center of Excellence for International and Global Specialties
Cyber risk presents an exciting opportunity for re/insurers, but as one of the most dynamic perils in the industry, regulators are formalizing capital requirements and quantitative and qualitative measurements of risk appetite. In the United Kingdom, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) asked (re)insurers to develop a silent cyber action plan by the end of the first half of 2019 and will conduct deep-dives on select firms in the second half to assess how they are meeting expectations described in a 2017 supervisory statement. It then further assessed affirmative cyber risk via an exploratory stress test later in 2019.