Cyber insurance for Stoke-on-Trent businesses

Stoke-on-Trent's manufacturers and businesses keep their software updated as they are told to, trusting that an update from a supplier is safe. Attackers have learned to poison that trust at the source.

Where the risks come from for Stoke-on-Trent businesses

In a software supply-chain attack, criminals compromise a legitimate software product or its update, so that businesses installing the trusted update let the attacker in themselves. The defence, keeping software updated, becomes the very route of the attack, and it can hit many businesses at once.

A Stoke-on-Trent example

A Stoke business installs a routine update to trusted software that, unknown to anyone, had been compromised at the source, letting an attacker into its systems. Cyber cover meets the response and recovery, reflecting an attack that arrived through a legitimate update.

What cyber insurance covers

Cyber cover responds to breaches that arrive through compromised software and updates, meeting the response and recovery, even when the business did everything right. It reflects that trust in the supply chain can itself be exploited.

Placing it in Stoke-on-Trent with Apex

We make sure the cover reflects that even a trusted update can carry an attack, and responds when one does. Apex arranges cyber cover through one named broker. FCA authorised; established 2009.

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