Insuring Your Company Against Cyber-Attacks

Earlier this month, the Department of Justice announced the indictment of 13 individuals associated with the hacker organization Anonymous for a widespread scheme to disrupt and shut down commercial and government websites. Using cybercrime techniques known as Distributed Denials of Service (DDoS) attacks, the hackers "executed a coordinated series of cyber-attacks against victim websites by flooding those websites with a huge volume of irrelevant Internet traffic with the intent to make the resources on the websites unavailable to customers and users of those websites." Targets of these disruptive attacks included the U.S. Copyright Office, the British Intellectual Property Office, financial institutions, credit card operators, the Motion Picture Association of America and music companies.