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Cyber Liability Insurance in the US - Market Research Report (2015-2030)

Gavin Ross Gavin Ross New York, United States Last Updated: December 2025 NAICS OD4778

Revenue

$7.7bn

2025

$7.7bn

Past 5-Year Growth

Profit

$X.Xbn

Employees

10,038

Businesses

226

Wages

$X.Xbn

Cyber Liability Insurance in the US industry analysis

Over the past five years, cyber liability insurance moved from a niche product to a core element of corporate risk management, driven by rapid digitalization, a surge in ransomware incidents and tighter data‑protection oversight. During this window, industry revenue has grown at a CAGR of 18.1% to $7.7 billion over the five years to 2025, including an increase of 6.1% in 2025 alone, capturing both early breakneck expansion and a more recent moderation as competition intensified and rate increases slowed. Market penetration among smaller organizations still remains modest, so much of the growth reflects rising take‑up, higher limits and broader coverage rather than a fully saturated client base.​

Trends and Insights

  • Growth has been rapid but is starting to level off. The market expanded quickly as cyber incidents escalated and coverage mainstreamed, but rising competition and moderating rate increases are now translating into slower, more volatile revenue patterns.
  • Primary and excess coverage are evolving to handle larger, more complex cyber losses. Organizations are moving from basic endorsements toward dedicated primary and excess programs that bundle incident response and demand stronger security controls, reshaping how risk is transferred and priced.
  • Cyber insurers concentrate in regions that combine strong local demand with operational advantages. They place offices in areas with growing businesses, sector clusters and favorable costs so they can stay close to clients, brokers and specialized talent while managing expenses.
  • Market structure reflects rising competition and easier capital access. More carriers, reinsurance support and niche specialists have entered, so business that once flowed to a small group of incumbents now spreads across many participants, keeping market share relatively unconcentrated.
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Industry Statistics and Trends

Market size and recent performance (2015-2030)

Industry revenue has grown at a CAGR of 18.1 % over the past five years, to reach an estimated $7.7bn in 2025.

Trends and Insights

Rapid growth and mainstream adoption of cyber liability

  • Over the past five years, cyber liability has moved from a niche add‑on to a mainstream line of coverage, as businesses across sectors rely more heavily on cloud services, online platforms and interconnected systems to run core operations, serve customers and generate revenue.
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Cyber Liability Insurance in the US
Revenue (2015-2030)
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Industry outlook (2025-2030)

Market size is projected to grow over the next five years.

Trends and Insights

Growing digital dependency is heightening cyber exposures

  • Over the next several years, more organizations in banking, healthcare, government and other data‑rich sectors are expected to digitize records and services, increasing the amount of sensitive and regulated information held in online systems and third‑party platforms.​

Biggest companies in the Cyber Liability Insurance in the US

Company
Market Share (%)
2025
Revenue ($m)
2025
Profit ($m)
2025
Profit Margin (%)
2025
Chubb Limited
591.4
145.4
24.6
The Travelers Companies, Inc.
565.0
94.4
16.7
AXA XL
375.4
39.5
10.5

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Products & Services Segmentation

Cyber Liability Insurance in the US
Products & Services
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Industry revenue is measured across several distinct product and services lines, including Primary policies, Excess policies and Endorsement policies. Primary policies is the largest segment of the Cyber Liability Insurance in the US.

Trends and Insights

Primary cybersecurity insurance policies face rising demand from escalating cyber risk

  • A primary cybersecurity insurance policy is the main layer of financial protection that responds first to cyber incidents such as data breaches, ransomware and business interruption, paying from the first dollar of loss or after a deductible and defining the organization’s core risk-transfer structure.
  • More insights available in the full report

Table of Contents

About this industry

Industry definition

This industry underwrites (i.e., assumes risk and assigns premiums) cyber liability insurance, which is used to protect businesses’ and working professionals’ lost income or liabilities related to business interruptions, network security, internet liability, electronic communications, intangible assets and online content liability.

What's included in this industry?

Products and services covered in the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States include Underwriting property and theft (first-party) insurance and Underwriting cyber liability (third-party) insurance.

Companies

Companies covered in the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States include Chubb Limited, The Travelers Companies, Inc. and AXA XL.

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Related Terms

Related terms covered in the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States include data breach, underwriting and cyber attack.

Industry Code

NAICS 2017

NAICS 524126 - Cyber Liability Insurance in the US

Performance

Get an indication of the industry's health through historical, current and forward-looking trends in the performance indicators that make or break businesses.

Analyst insights

Growth has been rapid but is starting to level off. The market expanded quickly as cyber incidents escalated and coverage mainstreamed, but rising competition and moderating ...

In this chapter (4)

  • Current Performance
  • Outlook
  • Volatility
  • Life Cycle

Key metrics

  • Annual Revenue, Recent Growth, Forecast, Revenue Volatility
  • Number of Employees, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Employee
  • Number of Businesses, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Business
  • Total Profit, Profit Margin, Profit per Business

Charts

  • Revenue, including historical (2015-2024) and forecast (2025-2030)
  • Employees, including historical (2015-2024) and forecast (2025-2030)
  • Businesses, including historical (2015-2024) and forecast (2025-2030)
  • Profit, including historical (2015-2025)
  • Industry Volatility vs. Revenue Growth
  • Industry Life Cycle

Detailed analysis

  • Trends in supply, demand and current events that are driving current industry performance
  • Expected trends, economic factors and ongoing events that drive the industry's outlook
  • Key success factors for businesses to overcome volatility
  • How contribution to GDP, industry saturation, innovation, consolidation, and technology and systems influence the industry's life cycle phase.

Products and Markets

Learn about an industry's products and services, markets and trends in international trade.

Analyst insight

Primary and excess coverage are evolving to handle larger, more complex cyber losses. Organizations are moving from basic endorsements toward dedicated primary and excess pro...

In this chapter

  • Products & Services
  • Major Markets

Key metrics

  • Largest market segment and value in 2025
  • Product innovation level

Charts

  • Products & services segmentation in 2025
  • Major market segmentation in 2025

Detailed analysis

  • Trends impacting the recent performance of the industry's various segments
  • Innovations in the industry's product or service offering, specialization or delivery method
  • Key factors that successful businesses consider in their offerings
  • Buying segments and key trends influencing demand for industry products and services

Geographic Breakdown

Discover where business activity is most concentrated in an industry and the factors driving these trends to find opportunities and conduct regional benchmarking.

Analyst insights

Cyber insurers concentrate in regions that combine strong local demand with operational advantages. They place offices in areas with growing businesses, sector clusters and f...

In this chapter (1)

  • Business Locations

Charts

  • Share of revenue, establishment, wages and employment in each state
  • Share of population compared to establishments in each region in 2025

Tables

  • Number and share of establishments in each state in 2025
  • Number and share of revenue each state accounts for in 2025
  • Number and share of wages each state accounts for in 2025
  • Number and share of employees in each state in 2025

Detailed analysis

  • Geographic spread of the industry across North America, and trends associated with changes in the business landscape
  • Key success factors for businesses to use location to their advantage

Competitive Forces

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Analyst insights

Market structure reflects rising competition and easier capital access. More carriers, reinsurance support and niche specialists have entered, so business that once flowed to...

In this chapter (4)

  • Concentration
  • Barriers to Entry
  • Substitutes
  • Buyer & Supplier Analysis

Key metrics

  • Industry concentration level
  • Industry competition level and trend
  • Barriers to entry level and trend
  • Substitutes level and trend
  • Buyer power level and trend
  • Supplier power level and trend

Charts

  • Market share concentration among the top 4 suppliers from 2020-2025
  • Supply chain including upstream supplying industries and downstream buying industries, flow chart

Detailed analysis

  • Factors impacting the industry’s level of concentration, such as business distribution, new entrants, or merger and acquisition activity.
  • Key success factors for businesses to manage the competitive environment of the industry.
  • Challenges that potential industry entrants face such as legal, start-up costs, differentiation, labor/capital intensity and capital expenses.
  • Key success factors for potential entrants to overcome barriers to entry.
  • Competitive threats from potential substitutes for the industry’s own products and services.
  • Key success factors for how successful businesses can compete with substitutes.
  • Advantages that buyers have to keep favorable purchasing conditions.
  • Advantages that suppliers have to maintain favorable selling conditions.
  • Key success factors for how businesses can navigate buyer and supplier power.

Companies

Learn about the performance of the top companies in the industry.

Analyst insights

Chubb relies on scale and relationships to hold its position. Its long history, broad commercial footprint and willingness to adjust pricing in exchange for lower systemic ex...

In this chapter

  • Market Share Concentration
  • Companies
  • Company Spotlights

Charts

  • Industry market share by company in 2021 through 2025
  • Major companies in the industry, including market share, revenue, profit and profit margin in 2025
  • Overview of Chubb Limited's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2019 through 2025
  • Overview of The Travelers Companies, Inc.'s performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2019 through 2025
  • Overview of AXA XL's performance by revenue, market share and profit margin from 2019 through 2025
  • Overview of revenue, market share and profit margin trend for one additional company

Detailed analysis

  • Description and key data for Chubb Limited, and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description and key data for The Travelers Companies, Inc., and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description and key data for AXA XL, and factors influencing its performance in the industry
  • Description, key data and performance trends for one additional company

External Environment

Understand the demographic, economic and regulatory factors that shape how businesses in an industry perform.   

Analyst insights

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners was created to address the regulation need for multistate insurers. A major step in this process is uniform financial repo...

In this chapter

  • External Drivers
  • Regulation & Policy
  • Assistance

Key metrics

  • Regulation & policy level and trend
  • Assistance level and trend

Charts

  • Regulation & Policy historical data and forecast (2015-2030) 
  • Assistance historical data and forecast (2015-2030) 

Detailed analysis

  • Demographic and macroeconomic factors influencing the industry, including Regulation & Policy and Assistance
  • Major types of regulations, regulatory bodies, industry standards or specific regulations impacting requirements for industry operators
  • Key governmental and non-governmental groups or policies that may provide some relief for industry operators.

Financial Benchmarks

View average costs for industry operators and compare financial data against an industry's financial benchmarks over time. 

Analyst insights

Cost structures rely heavily on external specialist services. Insurers pass significant premium to reinsurers and incident‑response vendors, while keeping internal wage and d...

In this chapter

  • Cost Structure
  • Financial Ratios
  • Key Ratios

Key metrics

  • Profit margin, and how it compares to the sector-wide margin
  • Average wages, and how it compares to the sector-wide average wage
  • Largest cost component as a percentage of revenue
  • Industry average ratios for days' receivables, industry coverage and debt-to-net-worth ratio

Charts

  • Average industry operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2025
  • Average sector operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2025
  • Investment vs. share of economy

Data tables

  • Industry Multiples (2018-2023)
  • Industry Tax Structure (2018-2023)
  • Income Statement (2018-2023)
  • Balance Sheet (2018-2023)
  • Liquidity Ratios (2018-2023)
  • Coverage Ratios (2018-2023)
  • Leverage Ratios  (2018-2023)
  • Operating Ratios (2018-2023)
  • Cash Flow & Debt Service Ratios (2015-2030)
  • Revenue per Employee (2015-2030)
  • Revenue per Enterprise (2015-2030)
  • Employees per Establishment (2015-2030)
  • Employees per Enterprise (2015-2030)
  • Average Wage (2015-2030)
  • Wages/Revenue (2015-2030)
  • Establishments per Enterprise (2015-2030)
  • IVA/Revenue (2015-2030)
  • Imports/Demand (2015-2030)
  • Exports/Revenue (2015-2030)

Detailed analysis

  • Trends in the cost component for industry operators and their impact on industry costs and profitability 

Key Statistics

Industry Data

Data Tables

Including values and annual change:

  • Revenue (2015-2030)
  • IVA (2015-2030)
  • Establishments (2015-2030)
  • Enterprises (2015-2030)
  • Employment (2015-2030)
  • Exports (2015-2030)
  • Imports (2015-2030)
  • Wages (2015-2030)

Top Questions Answered

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What is the market size of the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States in 2025?

The market size of the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States is $7.7bn in 2025.

How many businesses are there in the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States in 2025?

There are 226 businesses in the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States, which has grown at a CAGR of 2.5 % between 2020 and 2025.

How may import tariffs affect the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States?

The Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States is unlikely to be materially impacted by import tariffs with imports accounting for a low share of industry revenue.

How may export tariffs affect the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States?

The Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States is unlikely to be materially impacted by export tariffs with exports accounting for a low share of industry revenue.

Has the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States grown or declined over the past 5 years?

The market size of the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States has been growing at a CAGR of 18.1 % between 2020 and 2025.

What is the forecast growth of the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States over the next 5 years?

Over the next five years, the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States is expected to grow.

What are the biggest companies in the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States?

The biggest companies operating in the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States are Chubb Limited, The Travelers Companies, Inc. and AXA XL

What does the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States include?

Underwriting property and theft (first-party) insurance and Underwriting cyber liability (third-party) insurance are part of the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States.

Which companies have the highest market share in the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States?

The company holding the most market share in the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States is Chubb Limited.

How competitive is the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States?

The level of competition is high and steady in the Cyber Liability Insurance industry in the United States.

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