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Life insurance policy administration system migrations: keys for staying on course

CGI

Why do so many life insurance carriers continue to live with outdated legacy administration platforms? The answer is that migrations are difficult and can go off course without the right people, governance, methodology and tools in place.

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How to Decrypt Ransomware Files – And What to Do When That Fails

eSecurity Planet

The bad news is it doesn’t work most of the time: Paid ransom decryption tools and keys don’t always work. Free decryption tools don’t always work. Paid decryption tools don’t always work. First, call the cyber insurance company that issued the organization’s cybersecurity policy. Ransomware Decryption Tool Options.

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What Is Integrated Risk Management? Definition & Implementation

eSecurity Planet

For example, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) regulates personal health information and imposes fines for data breach or data inaccessibility. IRM and other risk management tools can offer vendor-specific risk frameworks; however, tools provide only a partial solution.

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IMS Ecosystem: Beyond Transaction Manager, Database and Tools

Rocket Software

The mission-critical technology powering banking, airlines, insurance companies, the hospitality industry, delivery services, and more, IBM Information Management System, better known as “IMS,” processes an estimated 265 billion transactions today. Of course, none of this is free.

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UK Honey Bees and Insurance; an existential threat in the wings?

CGI

UK Honey Bees and Insurance; an existential threat in the wings? There is of course one difference between the hive and the Insurance sector – the ability to respond. There is of course one difference between the hive and the Insurance sector – the ability to respond. Wed, 09/05/2018 - 04:28.

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. The 9/11 attacks cost insurers and reinsurers $47 billion. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

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MY TAKE: Can Hollywood’s highly effective ‘source-code’ security tools help make IoT safe?

The Last Watchdog

Related: HBO hack spurs cyber insurance market. Of course pirating still happens. Over the past couple of decades, some amazing advances in locking down software code have quietly unfolded in, of all places, Hollywood. Makes sense, though. But Hollywood has shelled out multi millions to support the advance of source-code security.

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