Generali launches a new Cyber Insurance function and a start-up company to address its customers’ concerns and needs in the area of cyber risk. The newly-created Cyber Insurance function will combine the wide range of cyber insurance solutions with the support of a fully-owned technology start-up, GeneraliCyberSecurTech, wholly owned by the Group and created with the aim of deploying innovative cyber risk assessment methodologies for Generali’s customers.

Aon plc Guidewire Software have launched a scenario for a hypothetical attack by hackers on a U.S. hydroelectric dam, which could impact both U.S. businesses and homeowners.

Willis Re, the reinsurance business of Willis Towers Watson (NASDAQ: WLTW), the leading global advisory, broking and solutions company, today announced it has upgraded its cyber risk portfolio modelling tool PRISM-Re^TM to now include silent cyber.

As cyber attacks increasingly threaten every aspect of business and grow in volume and scale, companies will be forced to take new measures to address cybersecurity risk holistically, integrating it more aggressively into their enterprise risk management, according to Aon's Cyber Solutions industry specialists in the 2018 Cybersecurity Predictions report. The report outlines a number of specific actions that Aon believes companies will take in 2018 to address cyber threats, as well as other cyber trends that it anticipates in the New Year.