Data and information management

The updated model reflects a reduction in large-scale event attack frequency for cities in Canada, Denmark, Ireland, Italy and the United Kingdom.

Can a tech startup digitally assemble the pieces of a comprehensive, employer-provided health plan?

The Hot Wheels: America’s 10 Most Stolen Vehicles report reveals a 50-50 split between domestic and imported cars.

Enterprise Management Associates' research director discusses big data research, trends and implications of big data, including use cases across industries and markets.

As the insurance industry moves into a more data-centric world, data governance becomes more critical for ensuring the data is consistent, reliable and usable for analysis.

As more consumer and household goods are equipped with connected sensors, opportunities for risk mitigation and pricing are on the rise.

Today's technologically advanced homes are altering how insurers use real-time telemetric data for the assessment of risk and prevention of loss.

Gartner warns enterprise application development teams against using traditional practices.

MEM also worked with Risk Control Technologies to integrate Guidewire PolicyCenter and ClaimCenter data into the loss prevention system.

Companies that endure data-security breaches pay a huge price, and that price is rising. As insurers such as Chubb, Ameritas Life, OneBeacon and Allianz Global Assistance conduct more business online, the tactics and strategies they employ to protect systems, data and users are evolving as well.

Just days before this issue, which contains our security cover story, went to press, we got some interesting news: 1.2 billion unique usernames and passwords and 542 million email addresses were reportedly stolen from 420,000 websites, according to The New York Times. The websites ranged from Fortune 500 companies down to small online retailers.

The VP of Strategy & Data Governance at TIAA-CREF shares ways to reduce the effort required to make data fit for use and ultimately integrate data governance into the operational DNA of the organization.

Marketing and IT remain far apart on how much weight each puts on the need for collaboration and interaction, but the gap is closing fast, according to a report from Accenture.

Six questions that need to be asked before signing on with an outside service.

The latest version of the firm’s risk and capital management decision-making application is designed to enable insurers to better understand the drivers of risk, assess options and deploy capital efficiently.

Legal & General and Patriot National are among the winners of Novarica's annual awards honoring best practices in insurance industry IT initiatives and strategy.

While better reporting and actuarial analysis help to support financial decisions, improved analytics and decision making greatly assist the rest of the organization.

At CNA, a new CEO and a shift toward managed services drove changes in the insurer’s security posture, including dialogues with competitors and business partners, and subjecting the company to a cyber-insurance risk assessment.

Kory Jensen now is SVP, IT infrastructure for the Insurance holding company; plus three other management-level IT positions filled.

Project is intended to consolidate data and analytics tools, improve data quality and the efficiency of analysts.