Well, who knew that you could buy insurance for cyber-extortion?

The bad news is that your company just wired a six-figure payment to an extortionist's offshore bank account in exchange for a pledge from the criminal - whatever that's worth - to spare your network from a threatened distributed denial-of-service attack.

The good news is someone at your company had the foresight to buy insurance that covers this kind of unnatural disaster.

I had no idea. Makes sense, but wow.