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Getting ready for artificial general intelligence with examples

IBM Big Data Hub

Regardless, these are examples of narrow AI. Image (55%): Gen AI can simulate how a product might look in a customer’s home or reconstruct an accident scene to assess insurance claims and liability. AGI examples However, once theoretical AGI achieves the above to become actual AGI, its potential applications are vast.

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Don’t Wanna Pay Ransom Gangs? Test Your Backups.

Krebs on Security

Experts say the biggest reason ransomware targets and/or their insurance providers still pay when they already have reliable backups is that nobody at the victim organization bothered to test in advance how long this data restoration process might take. That’s why tabletop exercises are incredibly important.

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New York Department of Financial Services Issues Guidance Regarding Life Insurers’ Use of External Consumer Data in Underwriting

Data Matters

On January 18, 2019, the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) issued Circular Letter 2019-1 (the Circular Letter), addressing insurers’ use of external consumer data and information sources in underwriting for life insurance. Unlawful Discrimination.

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Cybersecurity Standards for the Insurance Sector – A New Patchwork Quilt in the US?

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

In the past two years, multiple state bills that have been introduced in the US to provide for cybersecurity requirements and standards to the insurance sector, with recent legislative activity taking place in particular within the States of Ohio, South Carolina, and Michigan. NYDFS: Setting a new bar for state cybersecurity regulation.

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Time and tide waits for no man – IoT in Insurance

CGI

Time and tide waits for no man – IoT in Insurance. This old saying could also be applied for what is happening in the insurance market with IoT and that given the drive behind IoT in both the consumer and business markets. For example, car insurance could be varied between theft and fully comprehensive when the Car is not being used.

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U.S. and Foreign Cybersecurity and Intelligence Agencies Recommend Measures to Counteract Threat of Russian Cyberattacks

Data Matters

Another example is the inclusion of remediation details for old vulnerabilities (including some dating back to 2018) and CISA stating that the Russian state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (“APT”) actors have used these “common but effective” vulnerabilities for attacks.

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RSAC insights: CyberGRX finds a ton of value in wider sharing of third-party risk assessments

The Last Watchdog

Back in the mid-1990s, big banks and insurance companies came up with something called “bespoke assessments” as the approach for assessing third party vendor risk. So much time and energy was put into the administrative exercise of just requesting data and responding to questionnaires,” Kneip says. “By Visibility boost.

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