Data security

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Most companies don't take IT security measures beyond what is required by industry standards or government regulation, says study.

Automakers including General Motors Co., Ford Motor Co. and Toyota Motor Corp. agreed to keep meeting regularly to exchange information and identify emerging safety issues.

About two-thirds of IT leaders surveyed think the cloud is as secure, or more secure than on premises software.

Insurers are adapting slowly but surely to a more digital marketplace, but regulators are keeping a close eye on data security and privacy concerns after high-profile breaches.

As digital processes continue to evolve, security remains one of the top priorities for IT executives.

Following several high-profile data breaches in 2015, insurers are ensuring they have a secure backbone for their innovation efforts.

More than two-thirds of organizations say there is a global shortage of skilled cyber security professionals.

As carriers employ drones, IoT devices, and wearables, they must understand and address the potential exposures from theft of the related information.

Chuck Ruzicka last led the technology organization in the agency markets division of the carrier.

Identification and response gaps by the health plans during the attacks were revealing, according to Deloitte, who conducted the test raid.

Rogers joined the company in 2008 as the Director of Information Security for Great American’s Annuity Group.

Research from The Insurance Research Council finds customers skeptical of insurers' ability to safeguard their personal information if they use telematics devices for usage-based insurance.

Some privacy advocates worry that the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act could do the opposite of what policymakers intended, flushing more of consumers' sensitive information out into the open than ever

Some business groups say that proposed rules requiring insurers to purchase certain data protection technologies are unfair to firms from outside the country.

SecurityScorecard will monitor cyber risk across the insurer's IT value chain.

Whether Excellus BlueCross BlueShield learned that it had suffered a cyber attack because the organization or a contractor was looking for signs of hacking, or learned from a law enforcement agency is not clear, as the company isn’t saying much about the incident outside of formal announcements.

The insurer said it “learned that cyber attackers had executed a sophisticated attack to gain unauthorized access to our information technology systems.” The pertinent words here are “learned” and “sophisticated;” other organizations hacked have used the same terms.

Rochester, N.Y.-based Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield was hacked at least twice going back to 2013.