Global specialty re(insurer) Canopius has launched a global Cyber Incident Management Team (CIMT), with units set up in Sydney, London and Chicago to offer support to its cyber policyholders. 

Ellen Brookes leads the Sydney team. She was most recently a technical support specialist at global law firm K&L Gates. 

Canopius says the CIMT is designed to improve insureds’ first response to a cyber-attack in terms of both time the time to recover and quality of service available after an incident. 

It also offers pre-event risk mitigation services, including tabletop hacking simulations that will expose vulnerabilities in an insured’s computer system.  

Policyholders also have access to preferential rates for specialist cyber incident service providers. 

“As the impact of cyber-attacks continues to grow in complexity, insureds and brokers require even closer collaboration when managing the consequences of such attacks,” Canopius Global Head of Cyber & Technology Matt Northedge said.