AI, Cybersecurity, and Organisational Resilience
What separates the companies solving real problems from the ones chasing hype?
Phil and Rick discussed Witness AI’s approach to security operations, how AI developments are reshaping organisational risk, and how the cyber security sector has fundamentally changed over the past few years.
Their take on insurers’ role in all this? It’s more complex than most people think and the relationship between security innovation and insurability is evolving fast.
We’ll be discussing frameworks for identifying concentration exposures in your portfolio, 3 realistic catastrophe scenarios with estimated impact ranges, and shared methodology for stress testing that both primary and reinsurer teams can use in renewals discussions.
What We’ll Tackle:
1. Cloud Infrastructure Aggregation
– Identifying hidden concentrations across AWS/Azure/GCP
– Business interruption triggers from single cloud provider failure
2. Software Supply Chain Dependencies
– Modeling downstream impact of critical vendor compromise
– CrowdStrike-style scenarios – operational failure vs. malicious attack
3. Correlation vs. Independence Assumptions
– Where current models underestimate simultaneous claims
– Geographic/sector diversification – does it actually reduce systemic risk?
4. Realistic Loss Scenarios & Stress Testing
– Building credible catastrophe scenarios with limited historical data
– PML estimates reinsurers will accept vs. what actuaries can defend
Why Now?
Reinsurers are increasingly challenging primary insurers’ accumulation assumptions, while regulators demand stress testing that current models can’t support. With limited historical data for systemic cyber events, both sides need new approaches to quantify concentration risk.
Attendees:
– Head of Cyber Cat Modeling/Portfolio Management
– Chief Actuary / CRO
– Reinsurance Brokers
– Reinsurer Underwriters & Cat Modelers
Participants
Guests
Phil Venables
Partner @ Ballistic Ventures
Rick Caccia
CEO @ WitnessAI