New York, NY (Sept. 1, 2025) \u2013 Despite being focused on post-breach activities, cyber incident response planning has emerged as a key cybersecurity control in reducing an organization\u2019s likelihood of experiencing a breach-related claim, according to a new report from the Cyber Risk Intelligence Center (CRIC) of Marsh McLennan, the world\u2019s leading professional services firm in the areas of risk, strategy, and people.<\/p>\n
The report Cybersecurity signals: Connecting controls and incident outcomes<\/a><\/i> found that organizations that regularly engage in tabletop exercises and scenario-based breach response drills are 13% less likely to experience a material cyber event than those that do not.<\/p>\n Since launching its 2023 research<\/a> into the correlation between the 12 cybersecurity controls tracked by the cyber insurance industry and the likelihood of a cyber claim, the CRIC has continued to analyze organizations\u2019 cyber control implementation information from Marsh\u2019s Cyber Self-Assessment against claims. This year, cyber incident response planning ranked as the fifth most effective control in decreasing an organization\u2019s probability of experiencing a breach-based claim, behind network hardening techniques, endpoint detection and response (EDR), logging and monitoring, and cybersecurity awareness training and phishing testing.<\/p>\n \u201cMarsh has long advocated proactive cyber incident response planning as a tool to help organizations effectively and efficiently respond to and recover from a cyberattack,\u201d said Tom Reagan, Global Cyber Practice Leader, Marsh. \u201cWhat our latest research confirms is that thoughtful planning also drives secondary benefits like positive security behaviors and strong control implementations, which help build more organizational resilience and reduce breach incidents.\u201d<\/p>\n This year\u2019s report also highlights the importance of effectively deploying and managing other key cybersecurity controls. For instance, the report found that each jump of 25% in EDR deployment across workstations and laptops was correlated with an additional 10% decrease in breach likelihood. Similarly, a multi-factor authentication (MFA) deployment that is resistant to phishing schemes is correlated with a 9% lower breach likelihood than MFA that is not.<\/p>\n \u201cOur findings emphasize that simply deploying key cybersecurity controls is no longer enough\u2014these tools must be properly managed and comprehensively used,\u201d said Scott Stransky, Head of Marsh McLennan\u2019s CRIC. \u201cBy drawing on our insights, organizations can make informed decisions to strengthen their security frameworks and help reduce their exposure to cyber risks.\u201d<\/p>\n About Marsh<\/b><\/p>\n Marsh, a business of Marsh McLennan<\/a> (NYSE: MMC)<\/em>, is the world\u2019s top insurance broker and risk advisor. Marsh McLennan is a global leader in risk, strategy and people, advising clients in 130 countries across four businesses: Marsh<\/a>, Guy Carpenter<\/a>, Mercer<\/a> and Oliver Wyman<\/a>. With annual revenue of over $24 billion and more than 90,000 colleagues, Marsh McLennan helps build the confidence to thrive through the power of perspective. For more information, visit marsh.com<\/a>,<\/p>\n SOURCE: Marsh<\/em><\/p>\n Tags: cyber attacks<\/a>, cyber risk<\/a>, cyber security<\/a>, Marsh<\/a>, Marsh & McLennan<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marsh McLennan Cyber Risk Intelligence Center report New York, NY (Sept. 1, 2025) \u2013 Despite being focused on post-breach activities, cyber incident response planning has emerged as a key cybersecurity control in reducing an...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[1],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}