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High-profile data breaches at insurance companies, healthcare providers, major retailers, government agencies – and his vanquished opponent’s own aides -- illustrate a need for action.

The TAP application allows commercial insureds to activate response teams.

What the candidates said about insurance over the course of the campaign.

Underwriting is at the core of the insurance business. Its evolution to incorporate other critical functions means that underwriters in the future will be well positioned to contribute greater business value to their companies.

However, most companies have yet to fully take advantage of newer digital technologies, study finds.

Taking pride in operational excellence speaks volumes to the technology challenges many insurers face as they evaluate aging systems that can’t perform to the customers’ expectations.

Admiral's quick reworking of attempt to leverage Facebook data reveals how far the industry still has to go to earn trust.

Growth in spending is driven by increased investments in software and IT services, the researcher finds.

Organizations, on average, face more than a hundred focused and targeted breach attempts every year, study finds.

A majority of business leaders lack confidence in their ability to measure the effectiveness and impact of data, study finds.

CalcFocus’ illustration engine will be fully integrated into Sapiens’ core suite.

Women insurance leaders gathered in Chicago for 10th annual fall meeting honoring winners and facilitating discussion on insurance leadership, technology, and more.

The St. Louis-based company aims to increase efficiencies around its cargo loss reporting within its businesses.

SMA research finds that as the number of insurtech companies rises, carriers themselves become less sure that they know what's on the horizon.

Many carriers are either undergoing or have completed core replacement projects, while at the same time facing a talent crunch.

While the core Watson technology isn’t trained using customers’ proprietary data, it has received large chunks of information in various industries, from health care to weather to financial services.

The Hartford leads in ranking of auto claims satisfaction; more customers are checking claim status online.

Initial implementation of ISCS’ cloud software will go live in Texas, Louisiana and Florida.

The EIS and Amazon Web Services combination serves the benefits business unit.

Finding and retaining IT talent starts at a very young age, according to these industry execs.

Enterprise data protection efforts may not be fully aligned with IT modernization initiatives driven by cloud computing, study finds.

The means used to mount the October 21 attack highlights vulnerabilities that insurers must recognize as they build their IoT plans and initiatives.

Fleury is credited with putting in place strong leadership and in growing the Unum cybersecurity team through savvy techniques.

Riczko recently embarked on a leadership role in a transformation of Westfield’s small commercial lines underwriting capabilities.

The increased focus on digitalization in insurance means talented technologists have lots of opportunities to apply their innovations. That’s something that makes Esurance such a great fit for Nandini Easwar, the company’s director of quality assurance and IT compliance.

Insurance IT budgets are largely unchanged year-over-year; a missed opportunity, says industry expert.

The industries making the biggest investments in security solutions in 2016 will be banking, followed by discrete manufacturing, federal/central government, and process manufacturing.

The Northeast insurer will implement its new platform in a phased roll out.

One-third of organizations are planning to adopt big data in the next 12 months, study finds.

The Munich Re subsidiary has bought Meshify outright, following a strategy of making investments in other IoT companies.

The upgrade will provide Midwest Builders’ Casualty with easier integration capabilities of other third-party vendor technology.

More than half of businesses currently require employees to complete privacy training

The company has promoted Joel Kneisley to the top tech position.

Evacuations could push storm damage to $10 billion to $15 billion mainly in losses related to economic disruption.

Brad Breau joins Tokio Marine's HCC unit as CIO.

The Silicon Valley organization is connecting insurance technology startups with carriers.

The mix of vehicles with autonomous and semi-autonomous features, and the evolution of the artificial intelligence systems guiding the automation, mean insurers are in for a long period of change.

It may be surprising that there was automated underwriting 25 years ago.

The insurer has expanded in the U.S. and abroad, looking to underwrite more efficiently using big data and technology.

Native American-focused insurer completes cloud deployment of new core suite

Hugh Tamassia is charged with building out the insurer's IT infrastructure.

Company revenues, however, are expected to increase, study finds.

Insurer's conversion to Salesforce prevents end users from having to improvise ways to cobble together data.

The workers' compensation insurer implements new underwriting and billing tools.

Verisk Insurance Solutions joins Guidewire PartnerConnect and augments the software provider's policy admin system.

The surplus lines insurer has selected new software for Insurity and its subsidiary Oceanwide.

Commercial insurer's tech leader talks underwriting transformation, data center strategy, and what insurers can learn from startups.

The companies announced integration for P&C forms.

Guidewire ClaimCenter will replace the mutual insurer's previous third-party claims management system.