Volume: 9 Issue: 1
(January 2012)
Keywords:
insurance
insurability
data
breaches
what
covered
due
dynamism
area
insurance
due
recent
breach
activity
generated
hactivists
breaches
payment
Due to the dynamism in the area of insurance, and due to the recent breach activity generated by "hactivists", breaches of payment cards data and geo-political hacking, the scope of most privacy insurance still equates to forensic discovery and investigation of potential breaches, notification of established breaches, and post-breach services such as credit monitoring and call centres. Rick Welsh, a privacy insurance expert, examines what is covered under privacy insurance and what is not.