Data and information management

Victims could includes millions of people who aren’t Anthem members, but used their Blue Cross or Blue Shield insurance in states, including Texas and Florida, where Anthem operates partnerships.

Is your budget for security larger than Google, Amazon or Microsoft?

Along with Logiq3, MSG Global's acquisition of Tindal Associates brings it more than 100 life insurance customers.

Swiss Re and Allianz Life are giving their underwriting staff robust analytics tools that drive costs down and improve the customer experience.

Why are chief data officers (CDOs) in high demand – and how might their roles evolve within large enterprises worldwide? Some intriguing answers surfaced in “Dawn of the Chief Data Officer (CDO)” – a survey and research report from Experian. The survey involved 254 CIOs worldwide. Here are 10 key takeaways.

Matthew Eagle will be responsible for providing thought and resource leadership across the EMEA and AsiaPac regions and developing catastrophe modeling and analytics propositions.

Allstate and XL Group are among the growing number of insurers with executive teams devoted to cleaning and organizing data to facilitate enterprise analytics initiatives.

Four tips on how to handle system users who are reluctant or openly resistant to change.

However, research from the New York Department of Financial Services found that actual data loss is not a common outcome of compromised systems.

Blue Yonder, founded in 2008, claims it has assembled the largest team of top data scientists in Europe. Here’s a peek inside the company’s Karlsruhe, Germany headquarters – which combines people, process, and plenty of data center horsepower.

Survey by Employers Holdings shows that companies need to create healthier environments.

All of Agile’s principal leadership now has moved into the Majesco organization.

Widespread use of mobile devices is driving insurers and other financial services firms to increase spending to protect data.

Fifty-five percent of P&C insurers surveyed by Towers Watson said that predictive analytics implementations have had a positive effect on customer retention.

IBM is in transition mode -- pushing beyond traditional hardware, software and IT services to more aggressively promote cloud, mobile, social and big data offerings.

Amazon Web Services now commands 28 percent of the cloud infrastructure market, followed by Microsoft, IBM, Google and Salesforce.com.

The costs to deal with the breach won’t hurt this year’s earnings outlook, in part because the company has its own insurance to cover such incidents.

Companies need to start encrypting personal information, especially important data such as Social Security numbers, and storing it more securely.

The HHS Office for Civil Rights Web site of large breaches lists more than 90 major incidents of hacking, which have become much more prevalent during the past two years. Here are the 10 largest healthcare hacking incidents to date.

Individuals affected by the Anthem health information breach should be wary of emails or calls they receive.