Businesses are more interconnected than ever
As businesses become increasingly reliant on technology, they face growing risks from internet-based threats, IT infrastructure vulnerabilities, and the challenges associated with managing sensitive data.
Cyber Insurance helps mitigate these risks by covering third-party liabilities and a range of first-party losses that can arise from cyber events.
It also provides rapid access to specialist lawyers, forensic investigators, and IT and media consultants, offering essential support in the event of a data breach, ransomware attacks, or other damaging cyber incident.
Preferred risks
- Professional services - architects, accountants, legal services, real estate, consultants
- Labour hire/recruitment
- Retail/wholesale/importing - including online retail
- Manufacturing
- Mining
- Advertising and marketing
- Design
- Construction
- Software development and sales
- Trade services - builders, electricians, plumbers, carpenters
- Not-for-profit and religious organisations
Coverage options
Our Cyber Insurance policy provides the following key coverage elements:
Third party claims
Business interruption
Response costs
Reimbursement of the insured’s immediate expenses for managing an incident, including:
- IT forensic costs
- Legal expenses
- Public relations expenses
- Credit monitoring and identity theft prevention services
Data restoration
Costs incurred to restore or replace affected data and software.
Cyber extortion
Reputational harm
Loss of income due to an adverse media event.
Social engineering fraud
Please review our policy wording for the full policy terms and conditions.
500+
occupations available on WebRater
$5m
primary limits
$10m
excess limits

Enhanced cyber coverage for New Zealand business
DUAL includes several carefully tailored additional enhancements and extensions beyond these commonly available cyber insurance covers, ensuring we can offer our clients the broadest possible coverage and support.
Key extensions include:
- Triggers for covered events affecting both on-premises and third party or cloud hosted systems
- Cover for business interruption losses triggered by human error and system failure
How to get a quote
WebRater
Instant quotations and bindings are now available through the WebRater for organisations with revenue of up to $50m, and for limits of up to $2m.
Cyber underwriting team
Our dedicated cyber underwriters can offer primary limits of up to $5m and excess limits of up to $10m for organisations with annual revenue up to $1b.
Dedicated and experienced incident response and claims service
Knowing who to call when a cyber event occurs is critical, so every DUAL Cyber policy comes with access to hotline support provided 24 x 7 through our dedicated Cyber Incident Management team (CIMT) and is backed by a panel of specialist service providers.
All DUAL insureds also receive the benefit of claims support from our experienced in-house claims team.
In the event of a claim or loss, contact the CIMT.
P: +64 48310 243
P: 1 844 502 9237
Meet the Head of Cyber Insurance

Marc Karapanovic
Senior Underwriter/Cyber Lead