Marsh, a global leader in insurance broking and risk management and a wholly owned subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies (NYSE: MMC), announced the launch of a new cyber insurance policy that provides catastrophic protection for large companies seeking to better manage the growing threat of a cyber-related data disruption or unplanned technology outage.

An annual research report released recently by BDO Seidman, LLP, a leading accounting and consulting organization, identifies the most common risk factors among the 100 largest U.S. public technology companies as strong competition and consolidation (97 percent, also ranked as the primary risk factor in 2008 with 92 percent) and failure to develop new products or services (91 percent, ranked fifth last year with 84 percent).