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Insurance and Ransomware

Schneier on Security

Here’s one more contribution to that issue: a research paper that the insurance industry is hurting more than it’s helping. However, the most pressing challenge currently facing the industry is ransomware. To date, the UK government has taken a light-touch approach to the cyber insurance industry.

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NYDFS issues significant guidance on insurers using AI or external data

Data Protection Report

On January 17, 2024 the New York Department of Financial Services (“NYDFS”) published a Proposed Insurance Circular Letter (“Proposed Circular”) regarding the use of artificial intelligence systems (“AIS”) and external consumer data and information sources (“ECDIS”) in insurance underwriting and pricing. Actual Actuarial Validity.

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The Financial Service and Insurance Industries Need Intelligent Document Processing; Here’s Why

Rocket Software

Analyst firm IDC recently published a Vendor Spotlight report featuring ASG Mobius Content Services (Mobius) and its applications in the financial service and insurance industries. IDP Trends in the Financial and Insurance Industries. Challenges to Effective IDP.

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The risks and limitations of AI in insurance

IBM Big Data Hub

In my previous post , I described the different capabilities of both discriminative and generative AI, and sketched a world of opportunities where AI changes the way that insurers and insured would interact. Usage risk—inaccuracy The performance of an AI system heavily depends on the data from which it learns.

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Is Artificial Intelligence relevant to insurance?

IBM Big Data Hub

In this first of two posts, I investigate the anatomy of artificial intelligence and its impact on insurance. Academia is in an uproar over originality of authorship, and governments have even started to outlaw its general use. It offers customers and the insurer’s system to interact in a human-like manner.

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U.S. Treasury Department Seeks Public Comment On Potential Federal Cyber Insurance Program

Data Matters

Treasury Department is seeking public comment on the need and scope for a potential federal insurance response to catastrophic cyber incidents, akin to the one put in place for terrorism insurance after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The request, published by the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) in the U.S. Background.

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Cyber Insurers Pull Back Amid Increase in Cyber Attacks, Costs

eSecurity Planet

The explosion of ransomware and similar cyber incidents along with rising associated costs is convincing a growing number of insurance companies to raise the premiums on their cyber insurance policies or reduce coverage, moves that could further squeeze organizations under siege from hackers. Insurers Assessing Risks.

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