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I have filled out a few applications for tech e&o and cyber liability insurance over the past week and they all had a question about antivirus on the servers, w

• laurencei 10y ago
  It will be interesting what an insurance company thinks is needed. If having an antivirus can create possibly more security holes than it closes - then from an insurance perspective they would not want you to have it. i.e. if they have to pay based upon an attack - they want to ensure the lowest risk.
  • sqldba 10y ago
    The thing is that in most companies you're far more likely to fall victim to a simple and random malware emailed or ran by your employees, than you are to be carefully targeted by a worm based on AV vulnerabilities. With that said I prefer to view security as, "You likely will be the victim of a planned attack, so plan from there", but still. Odds are not favourable.
  • ganoushoreilly 10y ago
    If people understood those that were building the Cyber liability policies within the big firms, they'd realize few have a clue. Having worked with the big 5 for years now on this, many are so far behind on reality it hurts.