Startup Crop Pro Insurance plans to help growers minimize risk using digital data and technology.

Insurer plans to leverage large swath of data to re-evaluate risk as autos modernize.

These very specialized organizations need robust systems to support their operations, but many are under-resourced.

Researchers have seen at least three cyber espionage operations using this technique, says Alexey Shulmin of Kapersky Lab.

Partnership follows several other collegiate partnerships aiming at developing analytics talent.

More than half of firms think those that don’t keep up with technology advances will go out of business or be absorbed by a competitor within four years.

Underwriting procedures are being handled in an entirely new way, impacting everything from data gathering to data analysis.

Algorithms and AI are very good at identifying patterns of behavior that predict certain outcomes, which can be used to sort people by the expected cost of care.

Carriers are starting to recognize scientists focused on behavior, speech and social networking will be valuable in the long term as new data sources emerge.

The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2017 calls for Internet-connected devices to be patchable, meet minimum data safety standards and have changeable password capability.

Insurers that obsess about the technology are focused on the wrong thing.

Salaries can approach $160,000 for a candidate with the right experience says Sam Brown at Empiric.

Partnership will give Farmers' claims pros access to unmanned aerial vehicles fully loaded with analytics software.

Forensic study finds an employee of a business associate of the insurer accessed PHI.

The acquisition adds drone-as-a-service capabilities to Genpact's suite of claims services.

Ease of communicating biological data can impact access control and underwriting, experts say.

The rampant proliferation of easy-to-use hacking tools and number of bad actors willing to deploy them means that everyone needs to 'up their game' to stay safe.

The 10 honorees of Digital Insurance's 12-year-old program are leading their companies through a transformative time for the industry.

Not all data insights generate value to an organization, and some can be downright counter-productive.

But challenges of implementing the technology include regulatory issues, incomplete data, lack of skilled employees and executive support.