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What Is Cyber Liability Insurance?

Insurance for today’s unique risks

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Cyber coverage options and tools to help protect your business

It's not a question of whether your organization will be the target of a cyberattack, but when. Cyber liability insurance provides businesses with a combination of coverage options to help protect the company from ransomware and other cybersecurity issues. Travelers CyberRisk policyholders can also access tools and resources to help manage and mitigate cyber risk both pre-breach and post-breach.

What businesses need cyber liability insurance?

Every type of organization that uses technology to do business, from global companies to mom-and-pop shops, faces cyber risk. As technology becomes more complex and sophisticated, so do the threats that businesses face. This is why every business and organization needs to be prepared with both cyber liability insurance and an effective cybersecurity plan to help manage and mitigate cyber risk. At Travelers, we understand the complexity of cyber threats. We have solutions to help insure and protect your business assets.

Travelers cyber coverage can be a crucial safeguard against the devastating financial consequences of a cyberattack. When you have a CyberRisk policy with Travelers, you also receive access to a variety of risk management resources that can help protect your organization against the threat of a cyberattack.

What does cyber liability insurance cover? 

Cyber liability insurance helps cover costs associated with cyberattacks on your business. Those costs can include such things as lost income due to a cyber event, costs associated with notifying customers affected by a breach, costs for recovering compromised data, costs for repairing damaged computer systems and more. Travelers offers customized insurance solutions depending on your business’s level of risk, with coverage options available to address: 

  • Forensic investigations 

  • Litigation expenses 

  • Regulatory defense expenses/fines 

  • Crisis management expenses 

  • Business interruption 

  • Cyber extortion 

  • Betterment 

Travelers cyber insurance solutions

Travelers offers flexible insurance options to meet your needs 

Does your company collect credit card information (PCI) for online sales or maintain a database of personal information (PII) for lead generation? With new threats to computer systems and data emerging every day, it pays to be prepared. Even if your business or organization has taken steps to maintain the security of your data, you may not be keeping up with increasingly sophisticated threats.

The right coverage your business or organization needs depends on your level of risk. Find the cyber liability coverage that’s right for your organization.

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CyberRisk for multiple industries and business sizes 

  • Broad cyber coverage customized to fit your business needs.
  • For small businesses to Fortune 500 companies and every organization in between, including financial institutions and nonprofit organizations.
  • Available as a stand-alone policy or as a cohesive part of the management liability suite of coverage.

Learn more about our cyber coverage for all organizations.

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CyberRisk Tech for technology companies 

  • Broad cyber coverage meeting the complex needs of technology companies.
  • Includes errors and omissions coverage.
  • Available as part of a package or as a stand-alone policy.

Learn more about our cyber coverage for technology companies.

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CyberRisk for public entities

  • Broad cyber coverage to meet the needs of public entities.
  • Suitable for municipalities and counties, utilities, transit authorities and other organizations in the public sector.

Learn more about our cyber coverage for public entities.

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