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March 22, 2021

Kovrr adds Hetul Patel to advisory board

Hetul Patel, Former Chief Actuary at Asia Capital Re and XL Catlin, joins Kovrr advisory board.

February 11, 2021

Helen Gemmell, Portfolio Underwriter at Ki Insurance, Joins Kovrr Advisory Board

February 4, 2021

Lockton Re adopts Kovrr’s financial cyber risk model

Lockton Re, the reinsurance arm of global brokerage Lockton, has licensed Kovrr’s cyber risk model.

January 19, 2021

The Next Five Years: Cyber Insurance Predictions Through 2025

Increasing reliance of businesses and the emergence of new technologies will further emphasize the importance of cyber insurance.

January 14, 2021

SolarWinds Hack Could Cost Cyber Insurance Firms $90 Million

Cyber insurance vendors are expected to spend $90 million on incident response and forensic services for clients.

January 13, 2021

With insured losses at $90 billion, did cyber insurance firms dodge financial calamity?

Insured losses from the SolarWinds breach will likely come in around $90 million.

January 13, 2021

BitSight, Kovrr partner on new cyber risk tool

BitSight and Kovrr announced a partnership to provide a data-driven cyber risk quantification product for the insurance market.

December 25, 2020

Lorenzo Sargenti Joins Advisory Board

Kovrr has announced a new addition to its advisory board, Lorenzo Sargenti, former Managing Director of Client Development at RMS.

December 17, 2020

Deutsche Rück Licences Kovrr’s Financial Cyber Risk Quantification Platform

Deutsche Rück is implementing an innovative approach developed by Kovrr to validate their cyber risk modeling.

December 9, 2020

Kovrr Successfully Completes SOC 2 Type II Certification

Completion highlights company’s commitment to advanced security and process standards.

July 21, 2020

Kovrr adds Visesh Gosrani to Advisory Board

Kovrr has added Visesh Gosrani, Chair of the Institute and Faculty of the Actuaries Cyber Working Party to its advisory board.

July 9, 2020

Kovrr Develops CRA-Zones: Open Framework for Measuring Catastrophic Cyber Risk

Kovrr has developed an easy-to-use open framework to measure and understand catastrophic cyber risk.

July 1, 2020

MAPFRE RE collaborates with KOVRR to manage cyber risk accumulations

MAPFRE RE leverages Kovrr’s portfolio management solution for analyzing accumulated cyber risk exposure in cyber (re)insurance.

April 15, 2020

The Importance Of A Robust Cyber Risk Modeling Framework

Risk professionals need to be better prepared for the implications of a catastrophic cyber event.

April 7, 2020

Lloyd’s has selected Kovrr to join the global (re)insurance market’s innovation accelerator.

January 7, 2020

Kovrr Welcomes Kurt Jackson as Vice President of Sales, North America

Cyber risk modeling company, Kovrr, welcomes Kurt Jackson. In his role, Kurt will focus on leading and expanding business activ...

December 11, 2019

Kovrr Recruits Marco Lo Giudice from Tokio Millenium Re

Israel-headquartered cyber risk modeller Kovrr has expanded its team with the addition of Marco Lo Giudice, who arrives from...

November 25, 2019

2020 Cyber Insurance Predictions

In the past few years, I’ve watched insurers and reinsurers delicately maneuver around cyber insurance. Lucrative loss ratios...

September 23, 2019

Industrial cyber vulnerability could spell multi-billion dollar loss for re/insurers

Analysis by predictive cyber risk modelling firm Kovrr has warned of the potential for a multi-billion dollar loss to the...

September 10, 2019

Cyber Risk Modeling Company Kovrr Raises $5.5 Million

Cyber Risk Modeling firm Kovrr recently raised US$ 5.5 Million in a financing round led by venture capital firms StageOne Ventu...

August 20, 2019

Industrial IoT Cyber Vulnerability URGENT/11 Could Cause Multi-Billion Dollar Losses

Analysis by predictive cyber risk modelling firm Kovrr has warned of the pote...

August 19, 2019

VxWorks TCP/IP Stack Vulnerability Poses Major Manufacturing Risk

A new analysis shows the scale of risk posed by networking vulnerabilities in a popular embedded real-time operating system.

August 1, 2019

Unlocking Market Forces to Solve Cyber Risk

Markets have been slow to adjust to the multi-dimensional perils of cyber risk. Even headline-grabbing cyber incidents such as...

July 25, 2019

Swiss Accelerator Kickstart Selects Three Cybersecurity Israeli Startups for Fourth Cohort

As part of the accelerator, the selected startups will be flown to Switzerland to receive...

June 21, 2019

Insured losses from a cyber catastrophe could reach billions

Analysis shows insured business interruption losses from a cyber catastrophe could reach an estimated $3.25 billion.

June 12, 2019

Sapiens Expands Its Partner Ecosystem With Kovrr, a Predictive Cyber Risk Modeling Firm

The Kovrr-Sapiens partnership will enable UK insurers to comply with PRA regulations and...

June 4, 2019

David Clouston, former Head of Catastrophe Risk at Lloyd’s of London, Joins Kovrr

Israel-headquartered cyber risk modeller Kovrr has added Clouston to its Advisory Board.

March 25, 2019

U.K.'s Message To Israeli Startups: Don't Be Put Off By Brexit

Brent Hoberman is on a national mission of strategic importance. One of the UK’s most successful serial tech entrepreneur...

January 15, 2019

2019 Cyber Insurance Predictions: Strong Drivers for Growth Ahead

Cyber insurance is trending upward, the industry is growing, and the technology around it is evolving at a very quick pace.

October 2, 2018

World InsureTech Report by Capgemini: Kovrr Case Study

The World InsurTech Report (WITR) 2019 from Capgemini and Efma explores the Insurance marketplace of the future and offers insi...

October 2, 2018

Kovrr Announces The First Fully Integrated Silent Cyber Risk Solution

KOVRR, a provider of predictive modeling for cyber insurance, today announced the first fully integrated silent and affirmative...

October 2, 2018

Kovrr at InsureTech Connect

We're at InsureTech Connect today and tomorrow! Come by and learn about how Kovrr can help you understand, quantify, and manage...

July 27, 2018

Six Start-Ups Named as Finalists in 2018 ACORD InsurTech Innovation Challenge

Winners of New York, London and Chicago Semi-Finals Advance to AIIC International Finals in New Orleans in October

July 10, 2018

Cyber Crime and Insurance: Insights Carriers Need to Underwrite Appropriately

Underwriters currently lack the insight into ongoing activity in the cyber threat landscape...

July 3, 2018

Why insurers, reinsurers should care about silent risk exposures

How exposed are your clients to cyber risk via unrelated insurance policies that do not specifically exclude cyber events?

May 8, 2018

Kovrr empowers P&C insurers to efficiently underwrite cyber risk and sell cyber insurance at scale

Kovrr, a predictive cyber risk modeling platform empowers P&C insurers to manage...

April 24, 2018

Israel’s Kovrr Launches Predictive Cyber Risk Modelling Platform

Tel Aviv, Israel headquartered cyber risk modeller, Kovrr, has announced the launch of a predictive cyber risk modelling platfo...

January 18, 2018

Cyber Insurance: Coming of Age in 2017?

2016 was definitely the year of cyber insurance emergence. As large-scale attacks and disclosures of massive data-breaches were...