Data and information management

Amid failures and breaches, public and private sector groups are at early stages of fending off breakdowns and hacks; existing standards often neglected.

LITTLETON, Colo. – You can scale the outside wall of the Qwest CyberCenter here and drop down the other side into this industrial equivalent of a fortress, as a couple of national security spooks did a few years ago. But, like trying to scale a castle in the Middle Ages, you might just end up in a moat, inside.

While it’s widely understood that the fortunes of the insurance industry are intrinsically linked with the economy at large, a new study the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) quantifies that connection.

Revolutionary violence, insurrection, strikes and war join terrorism as key threats to businesses, says reinsurance intermediary Aon.

The Economical Insurance Group has been named the winner of the 2011 Technology Innovation Award by the Insurance and Accounting Systems Association and Ward Group.

A.M. Best, Fitch Ratings, Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s (S&P’s) released ratings updates. The following are some of the most recent:

Former Vice President Al Gore touched on everything from Moore’s Law to Minnie Pearl while pondering the impact of technology on the insurance industry, during his keynote address at the 2011 Insurance and Accounting Systems Association conference in Nashville.

When I heard that former Vice President Al Gore was speaking at this year’s IASA Educational Conference and Business Show, I expected political posturing and bloviation mixed with carefully chosen fuzzy bits of science. I was not disappointed.

The thunderstorms that struck the United States from May 20 to 27 will result insured losses to residential, commercial, and industrial properties, as well as automobiles , of between $4 billion and $7 billion.

Cover-All Technologies introduced a suite of data collection and analysis software that can draw information from nearly any existing source in an insurance company.

StoneRiver is launching a new launch page.

With an eye on cost efficiencies, including negotiations with health insurers, employers are making employees’ health habits a top concern.

Organizations need to defend their data assets against internal threats, not only disaffected workers but also trusted administrators who hold the keys.

45,800 jobs were added to the IT sector in the past 12 months, but the financial services industry has seen a decrease of 25,000.

Core systems renewal and improving the customer experience help optimism hold the lead over pessimism.

Borders of the office are being redefined forever by collaboration and engagement on Web platforms

Insurers contemplating integrating mobile platforms into their enterprises must take heed of this disturbing trend and make tough calls.

Australia’s largest insurer looks to expands into U.S. forced-placed insurance market.

Insurers fail to pay timely benefits because life and annuities business units’ motives for discovery of insureds’ demises differ and their separate blocks are administered on siloed platforms.

Risks rise as employees increasingly use personal mobile devices for enterprise purposes.