Data and information management

Report of Internet traffic hijacking highlights danger.

Willis Re has established a long-term relationship to develop solutions for risk scenarios using services from SpatialKey, a provider of SaaS-based location intelligence technology. The reinsurance broker will use SpatialKey to help its insurance clients better assess the composition of their portfolios and identify their exposure to natural and man-made hazards, including hurricanes, terrorism, tornados, and wildfires, the solution provider says.

With a firm foundation for cloud computing laid in 2010, Forrester analysts predicts 2011 will be a landmark year for technology.

While IT grunt work may be outsourced, the need for talented managers and professionals who understand both business and technology sides remains.

Banks seeking laundry list of carve-outs that would give financial institutions so many exceptions from the rule that it might as well not exist at all.

The data analysis and BI app is pre-integrated with the InsPro Enterprise solution suite for life and health policy management.

Moody's says the industry regained some of the ground it lost in early 2009.

As climate researchers turn verbal somersaults to explain their findings, insurers will remain perplexed over future weather patterns.

John Bowman argued that Dodd-Frank made his agency the scapegoat for the financial crisis, could spell doom for the thrift charter.

Study: major companies, including insurance companies, saved median $271M annually from better top-end investments.

The outcome of the current administration's efforts to clamp down on Internet privacy may create a positive spin for President Obama—and migraines for insurers simply trying to conduct business.

S&P revises outlook on CIGNA Corp., Moody's affirms Liberty Mutual Group Inc. ratings and A.M. Best assigns ratings to Unitrin’s “Automatic Shelf” Registration.

Insurers executing a reinsurance program are faced with getting it right the first time.

S&P report ponders consequences of interest rate risk to insurance industry.

Risks can be mitigated by utilizing stronger data security programs, Ernst & Young report says.

Despite barbarians at their gates, Moody's reports that P&C insurers remain financially sound.

Insurers, among others, warned the Financial Stability Oversight Council that designating companies as systemically important could do more harm than good.

As studies confirm the promise and limits of traditional safe driving initiatives, technology may provide an answer.

The feds say it will be a “secure” system, but definitions of security vary.

A new Celent report profiles 28 vendors serving Europe, the Middle East and Africa, noting that cost isn’t most important issue for insurers.