Any young occupant of a corporate workplace who has had their PC crash knows the feeling of dread when the IT expert emerges from the basement, rambles into the cubicle and says “Alright. What did you do?” It seems, however, that has IT has absorbed the science of networking and has also grown increasingly complex, liability for software firms, IT firms and internet businesses has become an issue that transcends the cubicle occupant.
Technology insurance is in essence liability insurance. It is designed to protect software and IT companies whose programming errors result in business setbacks for corporations using their products and services. Further, technology insurance refers to policies that protect internet businesses from unauthorized release of private information held on their servers. There are some principal categories of technology insurance that mirror, to some degree, the general categories of business liability.
* Technology errors and omissions insurance provides protection if your software or programming fails to perform as promised, or if errors in programming or product structure result in major client problems. “Cyber...