Security risk

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High-profile data breaches at insurance companies, healthcare providers, major retailers, government agencies – and his vanquished opponent’s own aides -- illustrate a need for action.

What the candidates said about insurance over the course of the campaign.

Organizations, on average, face more than a hundred focused and targeted breach attempts every year, study finds.

While the core Watson technology isn’t trained using customers’ proprietary data, it has received large chunks of information in various industries, from health care to weather to financial services.

Enterprise data protection efforts may not be fully aligned with IT modernization initiatives driven by cloud computing, study finds.

The means used to mount the October 21 attack highlights vulnerabilities that insurers must recognize as they build their IoT plans and initiatives.

Fleury is credited with putting in place strong leadership and in growing the Unum cybersecurity team through savvy techniques.

The company has selected investment management software from Eagle Investment Systems.

The industries making the biggest investments in security solutions in 2016 will be banking, followed by discrete manufacturing, federal/central government, and process manufacturing.

The software will help customers monitor thunderstorm exposure.

More than half of businesses currently require employees to complete privacy training

The mix of vehicles with autonomous and semi-autonomous features, and the evolution of the artificial intelligence systems guiding the automation, mean insurers are in for a long period of change.

States should continue to license human drivers, enforce traffic laws, inspect vehicles for safety and regulate insurance and liability.

The new regulations will apply only to banks and other financial services companies licensed by the state of New York.

Vulnerability to ransomware will only get worse as organizations invest more in cloud-based applications, report finds.

Security issues and cost overruns persist in a number of enterprise deployments of mobile devices and applications.

Secure configurations of devices and improved patch management can limit the risk, and those steps are crucial because many IoT devices were created with low cost taking priority over security.

The vendor wasn't aware its systems were compromised until four months after the hack.