Data security

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Many insurers are focused on ransomware risk protection even though other new vulnerabilities are emerging from remote work. Recent statistics point to a troubling increase in ransomware and phishing, web application attacks and other emerging cybercrime tactics.

A new report, IT’s Changing Mandate in an Age of Disruption conducted by the Economist Intelligence Unit, supported by Appian, suggests that to continue with various digital transformations and increase adaptability for the future, some IT improvements must be made.

Chief executives from across the business world are set to join President Joe Biden for a discussion Wednesday on how industry and the federal government can partner to improve cybersecurity in the face of debilitating ransomware and cyberattacks.

With cyberattacks on the rise and demand for coverage surging, the $3 billion industry of protecting companies against hackers is at an inflection point.

A trove of company data was stolen, and CNA officials were locked out of their network, according to sources.

Cybersecurity is top priority for the life insurer, says tech leader.

Laura Deaner joins the company from S&P Global.

Emerging consumer attitudes toward privacy threaten to overturn long-standing industry assumptions about customer data and personalization.

With the growing vulnerabilities and uncertainty of our highly globalized and connected world, actions in one place can spread rapidly to have global effects.

PaymentSource's Daniel Wolfe sits down with Carey O'Connor Kolaja, AU10TIX's new CEO to discuss the rise in synthetic fraud, the fastest-growing financial crime, and how payments security has been changed by the pandemic.

Folksam Group, which oversees about $50 billion in insurance assets, said it shared client data with Facebook, Google, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Adobe, according to a statement on Tuesday.

New research finds that it's become harder than ever to acquire new customers — and equally challenging to engage newly acquired ones.

The coronavirus outbreak is impacting the cyber risk landscape, with reports of maritime and offshore energy companies having faced a 400% increase in attempted cyber-attacks since the pandemic began.

Helping insurers to use new and emerging sources of data to streamline or improve operations and processes, reduce costs, and boost efficiency.

Attackers are always growing smarter, more creative and more aggressive, and environments are always growing more complex.

Artificial intelligence will shape the technology landscape of the 2020s, but unintended consequences pose big risks, according to a new report from ISACA.

Even though the threats emerging in the New Year won’t be any less intense, complicated or difficult to manage, 2020 is likely to be the year of simplified security.

Delta Dental of Arizona is alerting some patients that their information may be at risk after it identified suspicious activity in an employee’s email account.