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Cyber Insurance
As the preferred Insurance Partner for AIQS and its members, Austbrokers Countrywide has enjoyed the privilege of assisting members for close to ten years. Our cyber offering for AIQS members includes the following features and benefits:
- You will gain access to proactive attack surface monitoring and threat prevention tools insurers use that continuously audit your internet facing digital assets (domains, firewalls, and portals), alerting your team to critical vulnerabilities and dark web leaks before they can be exploited
- Direct cover for financial losses when hackers intercept digital communications, alter bank details on invoices, or divert Electronic Funds Transfers (EFT payments)
- Immediate access to specialised IT forensic teams, legal counsel, and crisis PR at a moment’s notice via a dedicated hotline
- Reimburses lost income and ongoing operating expenses during a downtime event, regardless of whether the cyber attack targets your own internal systems or your third-party IT suppliers, cloud platforms, or software vendors.
- Austbrokers Countrywide leverages significant market relationships and the $10B+ purchasing power of the AUB Group to secure favourable terms, conditions, and pricing for AIQS members.
- AIQS members have direct access to a Certified Cyber Insurance Specialist (CCIS) trained to translate complex technical IT jargon into quantifiable commercial risk for Quantity Surveyors
For more information, a cyber risk review, or to receive a quote, please contact:
Roy Chen (CCIS)
Certified Cyber Insurance Advisor
royc@abcountrywide.com.au
0461 350 676
Cyber risk is no longer an IT issue, it’s a business risk.
According to Cyber Wardens, 84% of Australian small businesses have experienced a cyber incident in the past year, and while having strong IT Security is crucial, we also need to focus heavily on business resilience. To determine how quickly you can return to full operations, we suggest evaluating your strategy against these three critical pillars:
- The Resources to Respond: Having the immediate financial resources and operational bandwidth to manage a crisis without halting standard business functions.
- The Experts to Identify and Isolate: Having the right expertise available the second an incident hits.
- The Roadmap to Recovery: Once the threat is identified and isolated, the focus shifts to restoring clean data from backups without re-infecting the network.
Maintaining this level of internal resources on standby is often uncommercial, and exploring cyber insurance offers a more sustainable path to business resilience. To understand how you can transfer your cyber risk across to a Cyber Insurance Policy, the team at Austbrokers Countrywide can assist in getting a quote.
Cyber Insurance provides the financial coverage and expert support required to recover quickly from a cyber incident, ensuring minimal disruption and reputational damage to your business. Below highlights the core coverage components of a Cyber Insurance policy:
- Financial Coverage: Covers the costs of data recovery, legal fees, customer notification, system repairs, and more.
- 24/7 Incident Response: Get immediate access to experts for legal advice, PR, Digital Forensics, and more.
- Business Interruption: Compensates for lost income and expenses if your business operation and reputation is impacted.
- Cyber Extortion: Provides cover for costs related to ransomware incidents, including reporting obligations.
- Third Party Liability: Defending against lawsuits and regulatory investigations that may arise from a cyber incident.
- Stay Compliant: Covers costs associated with mandatory notifications following a breach to ensure compliance with privacy laws.
- Social Engineering Fraud: Covers the direct theft of money or digital assets using impersonation tactics.
Professional Indemnity Insurance
As the preferred Insurance Partner for AIQS and its members, Austbrokers Countrywide has enjoyed the privilege of assisting members for close to ten years. Our Professional Indemnity offering for AIQS members includes the following features and benefits
- Austbrokers Countrywide has expertise across a range of industries and professions, including a large team of Professional Insurance and Risk advisors that specialise in Professional indemnity, Management Liability and Cyber insurance.
- Austbrokers Countrywide has a strong history of over 70 years of insurance service, and as part of the AUB Group, an ASX listed company responsible for over $10B in policy premium, Austbrokers Countrywide is well placed to provide quantity surveyors with professional expert advice.
- Austbrokers Countrywide has the ability to leverage significant market relationships and buying power to secure favourable terms and conditions for AIQS members.
- Our team is well versed in contract reviews and can assist in assessing the insurance related clauses of contracts to ensure your insurance policy adequately protects your interests.
- Austbrokers Countrywide enjoys long term partnerships with several professional bodies where its expertise are utilised to ensure members are competitively and adequately covered for all insurance risks that a a professional consulting business may encounter.
- We have our own in-house claims department that includes a team of Professional indemnity claims specialists, to support clients through the claims process, helping to achieve the best possible outcome when a loss occurs.
For more information or to receive a quote please contact:
Imesha Perera
Insurance & Risk Advisor
imeshap@abcountrywide.com.au
03 9835 1379 / 1800 245 123