Risk

Enabling insurance for driverless cars will be key to scaling up the technology, said Nissan Motor Co. in a statement.

Researchers examined the security of a large swath of technology domains being developed in industry and maturing over the next five years.

Report also reveals that organizations are altering security practices and policies due to greater reliance on cloud computing and mobile technology.

Security needs to be part of all application and data activities up and down enterprises.

Only one-third of organizations are actively preparing for the negative impact IoT could have on their business, study finds.

Compromised credentials still cause almost a quarter of all data breaches, the Cloud Security Alliance finds.

Every insurer is a potential target of a cyber-attack, and most security studies warn that the majority are overly confident in their defenses. Knowing how safe and secure your organization really is may depend on how you answer these critical questions.

Cyber thieves like to try to gain access to sensitive data through third parties, placing greater emphasis on the part of insurers to vet vendor relationships.

How insurers can ensure that sensitive data accessed by third parties is well protected.

U.S. agencies and regulators are trying to make the auto industry more aware of cyber threats and quicker in acting to plug security gaps.