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Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 07:55:00 -0800<\/strong><\/p>\n Apple has kept CEO Tim Cook\u2019s enterprise security promise<\/a>, and in doing so staked space<\/a>\u00a0in one of the few growing sectors of the insurance market, revealing a new enterprise-focused cybersecurity offering bought to market with Cisco<\/a>, Aon<\/a> and Allianz<\/a>.<\/p>\n This is a big sector. The Fitch<\/a> ratings agency last year claimed insurers earned $1.35 billion from cyber insurance premiums in 2016, up 35 percent on 2015.<\/p>\n Enterprises are joining these insurance schemes because they recognize the scale of security threats is growing rapidly, and the potential damage caused by successful exploits is also expanding exponentially, in part because in a connected world, what goes wrong with one small node has an impact elsewhere in the tech food chain.<\/p>\n The Ponemon Institute<\/a> has claimed that over two-thirds of Global 2000 businesses have already experienced a data breach and that up to 3 percent of enterprise devices are affected by malware at any particular time \u2013 even though the businesses concerned aren\u2019t necessarily aware of this. Already cyberattacks are costing companies $400 billion every year, according<\/a> to Lloyds.<\/p>\n That\u2019s the background in which Apple, Cisco, Aon and Allianze have come together. Apple\u2019s highly secure platforms in conjunction with Cisco\u2019s networking technologies<\/a> and state-of-the art security checks for Aon mean the giant insurer now sees the combination of these factors as capable of delivering far more security than you get using other platforms and providers.<\/p>\n Apple\u2019s big message to the enterprise couldn\u2019t be clearer, it can now claim to be the most secure technology provider for the enterprise, citing not just Cisco but also one of the world\u2019s biggest insurers as witnesses as it makes its case that:<\/p>\n \u201cThe\u00a0tight integration of hardware, software and services on iOS devices\u00a0ensures that each component of the system is trusted, from initial boot-up to installing third-party apps. Users benefit from always-on hardware\u00a0encryption, as well as support for secure networking protocols like\u00a0Transport Layer Security (TLS) and VPN out of the box.\u201d<\/p>\n The offer also means that any enterprise choosing to implement technologies including other mobile platforms will really need to think twice about how secure their business will be, given Apple\u2019s now evidenced industry advantage in the space.<\/p>\n The Apple\/Cisco offering works like this<\/a>:<\/p>\n Cisco Ransomware Defense\u00a0is part of Cisco\u2019s integrated security\u00a0portfolio.<\/p>\n