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Cyber Risk in 2012: Get Your Head in the Cloud

Technology and information system innovations continue their relentless paceputting cyber risk, data security, privacy, and related issues at the top of the 2012 concerns list for insurers, risk managers, chief information officers, and others who must grapple with the disruption and emerging risks created by each new entry to the...

By John W. DeWitt | Updated on March 12, 2012

Technology and information system innovations continue their relentless pace—putting cyber risk, data security, privacy, and related issues at the top of the 2012 concerns list for insurers, risk managers, chief information officers, and others who must grapple with the disruption and emerging risks created by each new entry to the technology marketplace. One of the most significant technology arrivals—not brand new, but exploding into an estimated $150 billion market by next year—is now ubiquitously referred to as “the cloud.”

The metaphor of “the cloud” sounds mysterious, but it simply means that users increasingly are storing data off-site, accessing remotely hosted software applications, and relying on information technology infrastructure that is no longer on their physical premises. Instead, data, applications, and systems are “somewhere out there” (frequently, many places out there) and are accessed via the Internet from end users’ businesses, homes, and mobile devices.

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