With the swirl of coverage of the WannaCry ransomware "epidemic," you might expect an avalanche of claims on cyber insurance policies in the past few weeks.

In fact, CyberScout has seen no more ransomware related claims activity from our U.S. and Canadian operations center than usual.

For those of us who work these situations day in and day out, this is not surprising, and neither is the fact that the countries and areas hit hardest by WannaCry were not the U.S. or Canada.

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