Insuring Cyberinsecurity (eBook)

Insurance Companies as Symbolic Regulators

Shauhin A. Talesh (Autor)

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2025
276 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40151-8 (ISBN)

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Despite the massive costs associated with data breaches, ransomware, viruses, and cyberattacks, most organizations remain thoroughly unprepared to safeguard consumer data. Over the past two decades, the insurance industry has begun offering cyber insurance to help organizations manage cybersecurity and privacy law compliance, while also offering risk management services as part of their insurance packages. These insurers have thus effectively evolved into de facto regulators—yet at the same time, they have failed to effectively curtail cybersecurity breaches. Drawing from interviews, observations, and extensive content analysis of the cyber insurance industry, this book reveals how cyber insurers' risk management services convey legitimacy to the public and to insureds but fall short of actually improving data security, rendering them largely symbolic. Speaking directly to broader debates on regulatory delegation to nonstate actors, Shauhin A. Talesh proposes a new institutional theory of insurance to explain how insurers shape the content and meaning of privacy law and cybersecurity compliance, offering policy recommendations for how insurers and governments can work together to improve cybersecurity and foster greater algorithmic justice.

Inhalt

Contents
 
Acknowledgments
 
Part I. The Interplay Between Insurance Institutions, Law, and Cybersecurity
1. Introduction
2. A New Institutional Theory of Insurance
 
Part II. Insurance Companies as Regulators
3. The Influence of Technology and Big Data on Cyber Insurance
4. The Effects and Implications of the Technologization of Insurance
5. Cyber Insurance Risk Management: Ineffective, Symbolic Regulatory Interventions
6. How Cyber Insurers and Managed Security Companies Influence the Meaning of Privacy Law
 
Part III. Policy Reforms and Pathways Forward
7. What Can Be Done? Policy Reforms and Pathways Forward for Cyber Insurers and Governments
8. Symbolic Regulation and Insurer Influence on Private Organizations and Public Law
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.8.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Informatik ► Netzwerke ► Sicherheit / Firewall
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht ► IT-Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht
• Themenwelt: Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Spezielle Betriebswirtschaftslehre ► Versicherungsbetriebslehre
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: algorithmic justice • corporate data security • cyber insurance market • Cyber Liability • Cyber Risk Management • cybersecurity policy • data protection • digital risk assessment • insurance and cybersecurity • insurance regulation • nonstate governance • privacy law compliance • ransomware mitigation • Regulatory Governance • Technology
• ISBN-10: 0-520-40151-4 / 0520401514
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-40151-8 / 9780520401518