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▲🎯 '''Affirmative cyber coverage''' is an approach to policy design in which an insurer explicitly states — in clear, unambiguous policy language — whether and to what extent cyber-related losses are covered or excluded. The term emerged in response to the problem of "silent cyber," where traditional property, casualty, or professional-liability policies neither clearly included nor excluded losses stemming from cyber events, leaving both insurers and policyholders uncertain about the scope of protection. By affirming coverage intent, carriers eliminate grey areas and ensure that cyber exposure sits in the portfolio where it has been underwritten and priced.
📝 Implementation typically follows one of two paths. An insurer may add an explicit cyber endorsement to an existing policy — for instance, affirming that a property policy does or does not respond to physical damage caused by a cyberattack on industrial control systems. Alternatively, the carrier may carve cyber exposure out of traditional policies entirely and offer it through a standalone cyber insurance product priced on its own merits. Regulators, most notably Lloyd's of London, have mandated that syndicates adopt one of these approaches for all policies, effectively requiring the market to take a definitive position on cyber risk rather than leaving it ambiguous.
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