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Cyber Insurance and the Changing Global Risk Environment

Security Affairs

When security fails, cyber insurance can become crucial for ensuring continuity. Our reliance on digital technology and the inherited risk is a key driving factor for buying cyber risk insurance. If the technology were to become unavailable, the resulting business impact could be mitigated with cyber insurance.

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How insurers drive success in the digital transformation race with modern data management

Reltio

The insurance industry is facing unprecedented disruption. Insurance carriers have been called to transform customer experience, business offerings, and operations. As an insurer, your current business models are being challenged by new thinking, new competitors, and new ways of working.

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Insurers need to formalize IoT strategy

Information Management Resources

Four out of five carriers don't have a plan for collecting, analyzing or securing the flood of data from connected devices, according to LexisNexis survey.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

Kapczynski Erin: Could you share your thoughts on the role of artificial intelligence, machine learning and the growth of IoT devices in both cyber defense and cyberattacks? Erin: Do you think cyber insurance should play a bigger role in companies’ cybersecurity strategies? Byron: It’s an important risk management tool.

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The Ongoing Cyber Threat to Critical Infrastructure

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Over the past decade, once siloed, Operational Technology (OT) systems have become increasingly connected to the internet, as water and energy systems become powered by intelligent IoT sensors and government operations are deep-rooted in data. It’s extremely important that leaders look at these strategies in earnest.

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Protecting Medical Data Against a Cyber-Attack Pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Patient records were always valued by attackers for launching sophisticated insurance fraud schemes, purchasing medical supplies or drugs, or committing other types of fraud including identity theft. Increasing the use of advanced IoT devices. 40% are implementing a Bring-Your-Own-Key (BYOK) strategy, and 31% use a cloud-based service.

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Microsegmentation Is Catching On as Key to Zero Trust

eSecurity Planet

The idea of walling off the most critical assets in a network is a particularly good fit for critical infrastructure and industrial IoT, in which a wide range of legacy devices simply aren’t able to run traditional EDR software. Critical Infrastructure, IIoT a Good Fit. “The companies are reliant on the perimeter.”