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40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07)
Big Island, Hawaii
January 03-January 06
ISBN: 0-7695-2755-8
Arunabha Mukhopadhyay, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
Samir Chatterjee, Claremont Graduate University California, SUA
Rahul Roy, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
Debashis Saha, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
Ambuj Mahanti, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
Samir K Sadhukhan, Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, India
Security breaches deter e-commerce activities. Organizations spend millions of dollars on security appliances to make online transactions more secure. Nonetheless, a new virus or a clever hacker can easily compromise these deterrents and cause losses of millions of dollars annually. To reduce the impact of such losses, e-risk insurance is a viable complement to the security devices. Currently, e-risk insurance is in its developmental stage and small claim coverage is only available. In this paper, we provide a framework, for insurance companies to duly accept large e-risk. Splitting a large risk across layers reduces the overall variance of the loss. Also in case of a contingency the loss indemnification is shared. The inputs to the proposed model are the risk transfer proportion, overloading for premium, expected return on capital and undistributed risk at each layer. The model outputs the optimal number of layers in which the risk needs to be spilt by the insurance company and the interlayer relationships.
Index Terms:
e-commerce, security breach, e-risk, E-risk insurance, cyber-insurance, re-insurance
Citation:
Arunabha Mukhopadhyay, Samir Chatterjee, Rahul Roy, Debashis Saha, Ambuj Mahanti, Samir K Sadhukhan, "Insuring Big Losses Due to Security Breaches through Insurance: A Business Model," hicss, pp.158a, 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'07), 2007
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