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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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HardBit ransomware gang adjusts their demands so the insurance company would cover the ransom cost

Security Affairs

Recently emerged HardBit ransomware gang adjusts their demands so the insurance company would cover the ransom cost. For those who have cyber insurance against ransomware attacks. But since the sneaky insurance agent purposely negotiates so as not to pay for the insurance claim, only the insurance company wins in this situation.

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Best Practices Q&A: Guidance about what directors need to hear from CISOs — from a board member

The Last Watchdog

Related: The ‘cyber’ case for D&O insurance Vanessa Pegueros knows this all too well. Thus, presenting a sky-is-falling scenario to justify a fatter security budget, “does not resonate at the board level,” she said in her talk. Here’s that exchange, edited for clarity and length. Compliance brings visibility to a topic.

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How to make sure your cyber insurance policy pays out

IT Governance

Cyber insurance is big business these days. With the ever-present danger of data breaches and cyber attacks, organisations must be sure that they have the financial backing to respond appropriately. The most common reasons that insurers reject cyber insurance claims are organisations’ failure to.

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Adventures in cyber litigation: Frozen crypto-assets and the role of cyber insurance

Data Protection Report

Given the level of interest in the case, we have prepared a deeper-dive into the facts and the implications of the decision, with a focus on the important role played in the case by cyber insurance. Until recently, there had not been an example of a cyber insurer actively participating in a recovery action. The context.

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Unemployment Insurance Fraud and Identity Theft: Up Close and Personal

Lenny Zeltser

The most likely way in which you’ll learn that you’ve fallen victim to the identity theft-based unemployment insurance scam is by receiving an unsolicited debit card in the mail. I wrote this article to help other victims of this unemployment insurance fraud and identity theft scam.

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A guide to the GDPR for insurance companies

IT Governance

A report published by research and consultancy company Celent highlights the challenges that the GDPR presents to insurers. Insurers are data controllers: a person, public authority, agency or body that determines the purpose of processing personal data. Steps insurers should take to become GDPR compliant.