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Cyber Insurance Between the Lines
Mark Rasch, 2003-05-26

Your company may already have insurance against computer attacks and electronic sabotage, without even knowing it.

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Cyber Insurance Between the Lines 2003-05-27
blacklight (1 replies)
"After being fired from NMS, Powell accessed the NMS computer systems and deleted and destroyed data."

I don't get it: how is an insurance policy that is supposed to encompass acts of destruction by employees be also applicable to acts of destruction committed by an EX-employee, if the statement...

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Cyber Insurance Between the Lines 2003-05-28
Mark Rasch (1 replies)
Powell acessed through the back door he created. One issue was whether the criminal acts were committed when he was an employee or not

http://pacer.ca4.uscourts.gov/opinion.pdf/012491.U.pdf...

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Cyber Insurance Between the Lines 2003-05-31
blacklight
Thanks for providing the text of the Court's ruling - I am still punch drunk from reading it, and my IQ probably took a temporary dip of 50 points.

The facts of the case are as follows: (1) Mr. Powell was fired on May 30, 2000; (2) Mr. Powell successfully broke into his former employer's systems ...

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Cyber Insurance Between the Lines 2003-05-27
BP
What about government agencies - do they need cyber insurance? Or is taxpayer money their insurance?...

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Cyber Insurance Between the Lines 2003-05-29
Psuedo-Anonymous Coward
> In this case, the court bent over
> backwards to read the insurance
> policy in a way that would give NMS
> the coverage that it likely thought
> it had.

Wherever there are deep pockets, the courts will find liability....

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Cyber Insurance Between the Lines 2003-05-29
Anonymous
No reason to give remote access to admins within commuting distance? You have to be kidding. I have no life as it is and if every time there was a 5 minute problem I had to drive in (a 20 to 30 minute drive) that turns it into over an hour and a half out of my day.

IT people are currently being...

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