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The insurance side isn’t preventing or mitigating these attacks though. The audits and compliance requirements are convoluted systems focused on establishing f

• milesvp 5y ago
  I listened to a podcast recently (most likely planet money) talking about essentially malpractice insurance for police departments. For those municipalities that are too small to self insure for cases that go to court for things like wrongful death, they need to get a policy. What was interesting is that it followed one of these municipalities with a chief that was trying to turn around the department in terms of over aggressive policing and was having a really hard time of it. Then a neighboring municipality got hit with a major judgement against it and their insurance went through the roof. Suddenly there was very strong monetary incentive to not end up like them and it became easier to get officers to change their behavior. To your point, one if the things they talked about was that it was also in the insurance company’s interest to give tips to help lower risk of major litigation. I tend to be similarly cynical in terms of fault and blame but I wonder if policies related to cyber security will have similar incentives to help secure things as judgements get bigger in this soace too.