Cyber insurance for Oxford businesses
Oxford's research spinouts and early-stage technology companies are built on valuable ideas, but often before they have built much security around them. That gap between what they are worth and how well they are defended is the risk.
Where the risks come from for Oxford businesses
A young research-driven or tech company can hold intellectual property, research data and early customer information worth a great deal, while still lacking the security, the staff and the processes a larger firm would have. Attackers know that a valuable target with immature defences is an easy win.
An Oxford example
An Oxford research spinout, rich in valuable IP but light on security, is breached and its research data and confidential information exposed. Cyber cover brings in the expert response the young company lacks in-house and meets the recovery and liability, protecting what its whole value rests on.
What cyber insurance covers
For an early-stage or research-driven company, cyber cover brings the expert response and protection it has not yet built internally, guarding valuable IP and data. It matters most precisely where the value is high and the defences young.
Placing it in Oxford with Apex
We arrange cover that protects a young company's valuable ideas before it has grown its own security around them. Apex arranges cyber cover through one named broker. FCA authorised; established 2009.
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