Widespread use of mobile devices is driving insurers and other financial services firms to increase spending to protect data.

John Huff was elected Sunday to fill the spot vacated by now former Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Michael F. Consedine

Fifty-five percent of P&C insurers surveyed by Towers Watson said that predictive analytics implementations have had a positive effect on customer retention.

IBM is in transition mode -- pushing beyond traditional hardware, software and IT services to more aggressively promote cloud, mobile, social and big data offerings.

Amazon Web Services now commands 28 percent of the cloud infrastructure market, followed by Microsoft, IBM, Google and Salesforce.com.

ClaimsVISION will serve as the city’s single and centralized workers’ compensation claims system to provide highly automated and streamlined claims processing.

The upward trend in IT jobs continues as the economy continues to strengthen, according to an analysis by IT consulting firm Janco.

All 56 states and territories under NAIC's purview are expected to join in the effort to figure out what happened at Anthem and how to prevent similar events in the future.

He is described as prioritizing "technology to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of license applications, renewals, complaints, enforcement actions and board and commission nominations."

The costs to deal with the breach won’t hurt this year’s earnings outlook, in part because the company has its own insurance to cover such incidents.

Companies need to start encrypting personal information, especially important data such as Social Security numbers, and storing it more securely.

Hackers are increasingly targeting organizations that house medical data -- and the consequence of a breach are steep. Here’s what CIOs need to know about the biggest insurance data breach and what they should be doing to protect sensitive files.

The HHS Office for Civil Rights Web site of large breaches lists more than 90 major incidents of hacking, which have become much more prevalent during the past two years. Here are the 10 largest healthcare hacking incidents to date.

Individuals affected by the Anthem health information breach should be wary of emails or calls they receive.

Early in its investigation of a major cyber attack, health insurer Anthem shared much of what it knew with other health industry stakeholders, all of whom participate in the HITRUST Cyber Threat Intelligence and Incident Coordination Center.

When the country’s second-largest health insurance company is hacked leaving the personal information of 80 million people vulnerable to identity theft, it’s a watershed moment that cannot be ignored. There is no doubt that this data breach is a wake-up call for a healthcare industry that is lacking when it comes to information security.

The most common vector of cyberattack is still poor habits by associates, says Joseph Smith, former CIO of Arkansas Blue Cross and Blue Shield.

The home and auto insurer sued Morgan Stanley and other lenders in 2011, alleging they sold packages of risky home loans while claiming they conformed with “conservative” underwriting standards.

A Manhattan federal judge on Monday denied Coventry’s request that he throw out the bulk of Lavastone’s claims, including those alleging racketeering, fraud and breach of implied good faith, in an abbreviated decision.

Two of the state’s most-powerful lobbies, the insurance industry and trial lawyers, are gearing up for a fight over a push to ease penalties against companies that deny homeowners their hail-damage claims.