While digital ecosystems and their data centers drive global growth, they also introduce diverse and interconnected risks that traditional insurance approaches can struggle to address.
To meet these needs, we go beyond the traditional and generic by focusing on the complex and systemic risks across the sector. Calling on our risk management framework, you'll have a fully integrated view of your critical risks, their related impacts on your operations and, crucially, your customers.
Whether you’re an operator, constructor, developer, energy provider, technology developer and designer or financier, we can help you:
- Stay ahead of complex risks with specialists who combine industry expertise, analytics and research to expose the interdependencies and emerging threats others may miss
- Leave no critical area exposed with our risk management framework, covering physical, financial, climate, cyber, legal, supply chain, operational and emerging risks
- Access global expertise to manage cross-border risks, protecting your business and supply chain wherever you operate
This differentiated approach is why we’re trusted by the world’s biggest digital infrastructure and data center organizations.
Managing digital infrastructure risks with Willis
Our eight-point risk management framework highlights digital infrastructure and data center risk challenges and potential impacts, allowing you to identify, quantify and mitigate the risks you face:
Emerging and strategic risks
Identify systemic and interconnected risks, AI-driven demand, geopolitics (multiple vulnerabilities across assets and people), technological innovation, as well as insurability and policy exclusions.
Physical damage to property and equipment
Understand power access and outage risks. Assess vulnerabilities to nat cat exposures using risk analytics for early risk identification and mitigation. Consider physical damage from multiple causes, as well as damage to equipment and cargo.
Financial risks impacting operations and reputation
Quantify your financial exposure to operational downtime or redundancy. Understand loss of revenue, working capital impacts, scheduling delays, private equity, M&A risks and insurance gaps.
Climate, environmental and third-party liability risks
Understand and quantify natural disasters, climate, physical and transition risks, including chronic risks such as drought and heat stress. May encompass pre-construction hazard, third-party, environmental and construction liability.
Cyber and data-related risks
Address threats such as malware and ransomware attacks, data breaches and privacy liability. May include system failure and insider threats.
Compliance and legal risks
Understand regulatory requirements, including data protection and cybersecurity regulation violations, licensing issues, possible audit failures and professional error and omission risks, amongst others.
Supply chain risk
Identify potential physical loss or damage to equipment and machinery, consider hardware shortages, credit risks related to supply chain, vendor lock-in and third-party / contractor failures and related vulnerabilities.
Operational risk
Manage a wide range of risks including power source challenges, transition risk from the construction phase to operational start-up, shared fate risk, continuity planning failures, people risk and human error or poor change management.
