There seems to be an endless flow of hacking horror stories. Dell is the latest big business to have been hit by criminals, who allegedly splashed data from millions of its customers on the dark web. The British Library, Boeing and PlayStation have all been victims. Last week Ascension, an American healthcare network, was forced to divert ambulances from hospitals after a cyberattack.
Against this backdrop, delegates are gathering in Birmingham this week for the annual Cyber UK conference. Organised by the National Cyber Security Centre, part of GCHQ, the event is so busy that “it will need to hire Wembley Stadium soon”, in the words of one attendee.
Strikingly, alongside the spooks and the techies, the insurance industry has an increasingly important seat at