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Computer Weekly 2017 Royal Holloway information security thesis series - "Insuring the uninsurable: Is cyber insurance really worth its salt?"

  • Date27 June 2018

Every year a number of the top graduates of the GCHQ accredited MSc Information Security programme contributes valuable white papers to the Information Security industry through a thesis series hosted by Computer Weekly.

Insuring the uninsurable: is cyber insurance worth its salt?

In the tenth and last article, "Insuring the uninsurable: Is cyber insurance really worth its salt?" of our Computer Weekly 2017 Royal Holloway information security thesis series, Michael Payne outlines some steps which businesses can take in order to make better informed risk mitigation decisions.

The full MSc thesis from which the article is distilled is published on the ISG's Technical Reports webpage

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