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Mitigating the impact of climate change in insurance and other financial services  

IBM Big Data Hub

As the effects of climate change intensify, extreme weather events are becoming increasingly frequent and severe. The US experienced 25 extreme weather events in 2023, each causing losses of over USD 1 billion, with a total cost of USD 73.8 These climate events have a huge potential impact on financial institutions.

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Turning climate risks into business opportunities 

IBM Big Data Hub

Climate change causes extreme weather events across the world that endanger people’s lives and disrupt the businesses on which they depend. The United States saw 25 climate disaster events in 2023 with losses of more than USD 1 billion each. These events included floods, severe storms and a drought.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

They can also help businesses predict future events and understand why past events occurred. By infusing AI into IT operations , companies can harness the considerable power of NLP, big data, and ML models to automate and streamline operational workflows, and monitor event correlation and causality determination.

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The Importance of “Legacy” in Colleges and Universities

Rocket Software

North Carolina Central University, NC Agricultural and Technical State University, Alcorn State University, Tennessee State University and East Carolina University. Most schools don’t teach it and don’t want to, yet recent events have shown that this viewpoint will become a bigger issue, especially with COBOL programming. .

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The Economy of Things: the next value lever for telcos

IBM Big Data Hub

And what is the role telecommunications service providers play in enabling and scaling the EoT? Register for our LinkedIn Live event on telcos and the Economy of Things The Economy of Things has arrived The EoT is enabled by artificial intelligence, data, IoT and blockchain, bringing liquidity to the IoT.

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CISA issues proposed rules for cyber incident reporting in critical infrastructure

Data Protection Report

For example, government contractors or subcontractors with reporting obligations to the DOD or DOE for cyber incidents, or financial services entities that are already required to report cyber incidents to their primary federal regulator would be considered “covered entities” under the CIRCIA.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

Source (New) Agriculture USA Yes Unknown Precision Technologies Group – Holroyd Source (New) Engineering UK Yes Unknown A.G. Source (New) Manufacturing Japan Yes Unknown Midland Industries Source (New) Retail USA Yes Unknown Rosen’s Diversified, Inc.