Best Infosec-Related Long Reads of the Week, 9/3/22
The origins of cyberinsurance, TSA's security theater, A million-dollar Instagram scam, How artificial intelligence threatens to spawn government disinformation at scale
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A Brief History of Cyberinsurance
Fletcher School professor Josephine Wolff offers this excerpt in Slate of her book on cybersecurity insurance that focuses on the origins of the cyber insurance industry from its humble beginnings at a Breach on the Beach party organized by an insurance broker named Steve Haase in April 1997.
When Haase launched the first cyberinsurance policy in 1997, it brought in $2 million in premiums in its first two years, but many customers were initially hesitant, especially with the looming specter of Y2K haunting their IT systems and budgets. “That really delayed the market for thr…
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