Cyber Insurance & Resilience Glossary

Plain-language definitions for risk managers, security leaders, and continuity planners navigating cyber coverage and organizational resilience.

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A

AI-Enabled Threats

Actuarial Pricing

Adaptive Capacity

Adjuster Appointment

Advance Payment

Affirmative Cyber Coverage

Aggregate Limit

Aggregate Loss Distribution

Aggregated Annual Losses

Aggregation Exposure Analysis

Aggregation Risk

Anticipate-Withstand-Recover-Adapt

Application Fraud Warranty

Artificial Intelligence in Cybersecurity

Attack Surface Scanning

B

Backup and Restore

Betterment Exclusion

Bodily Injury and Property Damage Exclusion

Breach Notification Requirement

Breach Response Costs

Breach of Confidentiality

Bricking Coverage

Business Interruption Coverage

Business Interruption Event

Business Interruption Loss

Business Interruption Loss Calculation

C

CISA Cybersecurity Performance Goals

CSF Organizational Profile

Call Center Services

Cancellation and Non-Renewal

Capital Requirement

Cascading Failure

Catastrophe Load

Claim Cooperation

Claim Notification

Claims-Made Policy

Cloud Concentration Risk

Cloud Downtime Risk

Conditions Precedent

Consumer Notification Obligation

Consumer Privacy Protection Model Act

Consumer Rights Request

Contingent Business Interruption

Continuous Underwriting

Contractual Liability Exclusion

Contractual Security Controls

Contractual Security Provisions

Control Framework Mapping

Control Strength

Control Strength Assessment

Coverage Determination

Coverage Sub-Limit Pricing

Coverage Territory

Credential Theft

Credibility Weighting

Credit Monitoring Services

Critical Infrastructure Exclusion

Critical National Infrastructure Risk

Critical Third-Party Provider (CTPP)

Cyber Catastrophe Bonds

Cyber Crime Coverage

Cyber Endorsement

Cyber Extortion Coverage

Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA)

Cyber Insurance Data Supplement

Cyber Loss Development

Cyber Maturity Assessment

Cyber Reinsurance Capacity

Cyber Risk Assessment

Cyber Risk Modeling

Cyber Risk Modeling Platforms

Cyber Terrorism Coverage

Cybersecurity Event

Cybersecurity Event Notification

E

Economic Loss Modeling

Email Filtering

Emergency Response Procedures

European Supervisory Authorities

Exceedance Probability

Excess Layer Pricing

Expense Loading

Experience Rating

Exposure Accumulation

Exposure Rating Factors

Exposure-Based Rating

Extended Reporting Period

F

Failure to Maintain Security Exclusion

Fines Uninsurable by Law Exclusion

Firmographic Data

First Notice of Loss

First-Party Coverage

Frequency-Severity Model

Frequency-Severity Modeling

Funds Transfer Fraud Coverage

G

Government Backstop

Gross Written Premium

H

Hardware Replacement Cost Coverage

Hostile Act Exclusion

I

ICT Third-Party Risk Management

Identity Theft Protection

Immutable Backups

Incident Classification Criteria

Incident Preparedness and Response

Initial Access Broker

Insurability Challenge

Insurable Interest

Insurance Data Security Model Law

Insurance-Linked Securities

Insurer Consent Requirement

Insuring Agreement

Intellectual Property Exclusion

L

Least Privilege Access

Litigation Costs

Logging and Monitoring

Loss Accumulation

Loss Adjustment

Loss Documentation

Loss Event Frequency

Loss History Review

Loss Verification

M

Major ICT-Related Incident Reporting

Media Liability

Minimum Security Controls Requirement

Mitigation of Loss

Multifactor Authentication

N

NIST CSF Core Functions

Net Earned Premium

Network Security Event

Network Security Liability

Network and Information Security Directive (NIS2)

Non-Affirmative (Silent) Cyber

Nonpublic Information

Notice of Circumstance

Notification Costs

O

Occurrence Policy

Other Insurance Clause

Outsourcing Register

Q

Quantum Computing Risk

T

Technical Price

Technology Infrastructure Resilience

Telephone Hacking Coverage

Territorial Exclusion

Third-Party Claim Handling

Third-Party Liability Coverage

Third-Party Service Provider Regulation

Threat Event Frequency

U

Unauthorized Access

Underwriting Guidelines

Underwriting Questionnaire

Unencrypted Device Exclusion

V

Vendor Access Controls

Vendor Onboarding Due Diligence

W

Warranties and Representations

Widespread Event Exclusion

Withstand-Respond-Recover Capability

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