Data security

Some see too many agencies, each with its own agenda.

Insurers looking to create smartphone applications may want to first examine findings from a study of mobile apps and security threats on both iPhone and Android devices.

Many insurers are now securing their databases by "data masking," which removes confidential data elements and replaces them with usable, fictitious data.

An ex-employee and a co-conspirator are charged with stealing close to $1 million from the supplemental insurer over a year and a half.

Fitch downgrades AEGON N.V. and AEGON Americas, affirms Pacific Life; S&P reacts to AIG’s board chairman change.

Hard drives were stolen from a facility the health insurer had leased from a call center, impacting almost 1 million members.

The commercial satellite risk protection covers satellite replacement, and protects against operational risk.

The first ripples from regulatory reform are already being felt.

Insurers’ position strong in spite of some valuations being reviewed for credit quality, Fitch Ratings reports.

The latest version, which includes 4-D structural knowledge of hurricanes, is designed to consider building characteristics such as roof age and type, window protection and glass percentage.

Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield’s catastrophe model development center, released the first functional typhoon model to assess all of Asia.

Creating a council to detect systemic risks and building a consumer financial protection bureau are just two of the major challenges now facing regulators, says a panel of experts.

Conning Research says premium rebound will lag economic recovery.

Federal Insurance Office and rule-making phase are front-of-mind as Obama signs landmark legislation.

"All told, these reforms represent the strongest consumer financial protections in history," the President said.

ISO and Atmospheric and Environmental Research team to deliver instant online weather forensic data through ISO ClaimSearch.

The tech companies collaborated on an ERM framework designed to help carriers comply with the 2012 Solvency II regulations.

How the Fed's new authority will be exercised is unknown, but it embodies a major shift in the thinking about, and approach to, functional oversight since previous legislation on the topic.

Recent study notes low customer satisfaction among corporate risk managers as carriers and brokers retrench to improve their own bottom lines.

Fitch affirms Aetna and Lloyd’s of London ratings; A.M. Best upgrades NAICO; S&P lowers ratings on Cincinnati Financial Corp.'s operating insurance companies.