Cyber insurance for Middlesbrough businesses

Middlesbrough's chemical, process and heavy-industry businesses run plant where the control systems and the physical world meet. A cyber attack that reaches those systems can cause harm you can see and feel.

Where the risks come from for Middlesbrough businesses

Where a cyber attack reaches the systems controlling industrial plant and safety equipment, it can cause physical damage, a process running out of control, equipment wrecked, or, at worst, a safety incident endangering people. For heavy industry, a cyber attack is a physical-risk problem, not just a data one.

A Middlesbrough example

A cyber attack on a Middlesbrough industrial business interferes with its process-control systems, causing physical damage to plant before it is contained. Cover that responds to physical damage arising from a cyber event meets the loss, an exposure that standard cyber and standard property policies can each leave in a gap.

What cyber insurance covers

For heavy industry, the interface between cyber and physical damage matters: a cyber attack can cause property damage or a safety incident, and cover should be arranged so that loss is not left in the gap between cyber and property policies. Getting the two to meet is the job.

Placing it in Middlesbrough with Apex

We make sure the cyber and property covers meet, so an attack that causes physical damage is not left uninsured between them. Apex arranges cyber cover through one named broker. FCA authorised; established 2009.

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