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title: "Does Cyber Insurance Cover Business Interruption?"
description: "Sometimes—cyber insurance may cover income losses and continuing expenses after a covered security event or system failure interrupts operations."
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# Does Cyber Insurance Cover Business Interruption?

Sometimes—cyber insurance may cover income losses and continuing expenses after a covered security event or system failure interrupts operations.

Sometimes. Cyber insurance may cover income losses and continuing expenses after a covered security event or system failure interrupts operations. The policy’s waiting period, restoration period, and provider-dependency terms control. The Insurance Information Institute lists business interruption among possible first-party cyber protections, and Chubb describes lost net profits and continuing expenses after interruption of insured systems. Coverage can depend on whether the cause is a covered network event, a defined system failure, or an interruption at a dependent provider.

Compare the policy’s trigger with ordinary property business-income coverage, which may require physical damage. Check the waiting period, restoration period, income calculation, continuing-expense definition, dependent-system clause, and sublimit. Determine whether a widespread outage or utility failure is excluded or subject to a special endorsement. Document the interruption and ask the insurer what records it requires to calculate the covered loss.

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## Related Coverage

- [Cyber liability](https://spot.insure/coverage/cyber)

## Sources

1. [Cyber Insurance](https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/small-businesses/cybersecurity/cyber-insurance). Federal Trade Commission; What Should Your Cyber Insurance Policy Cover; First-Party Coverage; Third-Party Coverage. Accessed 2026-09-25.
2. [CyberEdge specimen policy](https://www.aig.com/content/dam/aig/america-canada/us/documents/business/cyber/cyberedge-wording-sample-specimen-form.pdf). AIG; General Terms §§4–6, PDF pp.3–6; Security and Privacy §§1–3, PDF pp.11, 14–18; Event Management §§1–2, PDF pp.19–20. Accessed 2026-09-25.
3. [Cyber insurance coverage & products](https://www.chubb.com/us-en/business-insurance/products/cyber-insurance/cyber-insurance-products.html). Chubb; Cyber insurance coverage; First party coverage; Third-party liability coverage; Cyber crime (by endorsement); Products and services. Accessed 2026-09-25.

More answers: [Cyber Insurance FAQ](https://spot.insure/insurance-faq/cyber).

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