Latest Cyber Headlines
All the headlines from our Cyber Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Avoiding A Victim Mentality: How to Protect Your Agency from Spam and Viruses
Jun 6 2005 // Small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs) are bigger targets for spam and viruses than they think-and the insurance industry is more at risk than most. For an act to be deemed malicious or damaging, there has to be a...
Protecting Agency Security Takes Center Stage
Jun 6 2005 // High profile cases of identity theft have been all over the general press in recent weeks. We have seen from these cases just how devastating an impact these security breaches can have on the reputations of the firms...
For Agents Facing Evil Internet Wizards, Security is a Matter of Liability as Well as Downtime
Jun 6 2005 // Viruses, Worms and Hackers, Oh My! In 2001, Boston-area independent agent Peter Anderson noticed that his agency’s network server was dramatically losing hard disk space. The last time he’d checked it, there...
Assurex Global Appoints Three Senior Executives
Mar 30 2005 // Columbus, Ohio-based Assurex Global has announced the appointment of three senior executives to its leadership team: Kelli K. Black, executive vice president and COO; Curt C. Anderson, vice president, finance; and Paul H....
Cyber Risk
Mar 21 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: ISO introduced a new line of insurance to cover cyber risk. The new program includes policy contract forms, underwriting rules, loss costs (projections of future claims) and an advisory application...
ChoicePoint: ‘Insurance Industry Databases Were Not Compromised’
Mar 7 2005 // ChoicePoint’s Clue Auto, Clue Property and Current Carrier insurance industry databases were not in any way involved or compromised by the fraud ring that obtained data from other ChoicePoint databases of public...
Cyber Risk
Feb 21 2005 // Nuts & Bolts: This new program from ISO includes policy contract forms, underwriting rules, loss costs (projections of future claims) and an advisory application supplemented by an advisory underwriting guide. While...
AIU Underwrites ScanAlert’s Japan Hacker Coverage
Oct 5 2004 // Napa Calif.-based ScanAlert announced that AIU Insurance Japan, a division of AIG and the largest foreign-affiliated P/C insurer in Japan, is underwriting a new hacker insurance program for all “HACKER SAFE”...
Right This Way! Hotels Make Room for Risk Management
Aug 23 2004 // In the months after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. hospitality industry took a one-two punch. Travel and tourism plummeted as worried Americans canceled vacation plans and cautious businesses cut back on trips....
Is It Time to Take Your Agency Wireless’
Jul 5 2004 // Wireless can make sense because you can be mobile while still being connected to the agency’s network. Now the information is at the producer’s fingertips. The insurance industry seems to have embraced wireless...
Is It Time to Take Your Agency Wireless’
Jun 21 2004 // The insurance industry seems to have embraced wireless communications for its method of out-of-the-office computing. It is a hugely popular means of transmitting data, with millions of wireless Internet subscribers’...
Assurex Technology Gives Risk Mgrs.24/7 Capability
Apr 20 2004 // Assurex Global, the world’s largest privately held risk management, commercial insurance and employee benefits broker group, announced the launch of new software to enhance communication and information-sharing among...
NAIW Dallas to Present Cyber Crime Class
Apr 7 2004 // NAIW Dallas Inc. announced they are sponsoring NAIW’s newest education program—Cyber Crime: The Hidden Exclusions. The program was developed exclusively for NAIW, will take place May 28 in Dallas at the Wyndam...
The Strange Saga of Near North National Group’s Michael Segal
Jan 26 2004 // Powerful Friends, Enemy Insiders and Embezzlement Charges We are destroyed as of today,” Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John...
The Strange Saga of Near North National Group’s Michael Segal
Jan 26 2004 // Powerful Friends, Enemy Insiders and Embezzlement Charges We are destroyed as of today,” Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John...
The Strange Saga of Near North’s Michael Segal
Jan 12 2004 // We are destroyed as of today,” Michael Segal, owner of Chicago-based Near North National Group, told me several weeks ago in his 20th-floor office in the John Hancock Tower. The group’s subsidiary, Near North...
PLUS Convention Highlights D&O, E&O Concerns For Agents/Brokers
Dec 1 2003 // The Professional Liability Underwriting Society’s 16th annual convention, held Nov. 9-11 in Philadelphia, featured a broad range of discussions on timely issues facing insurers, agents, brokers and the lawyers who...
Assurex Global Elects Board and Officers
Nov 14 2003 // Columbus, Ohio-based brokerage giant Assurex Global announced the appointment of new directors and officers to the its board of directors for 2004. Officers include Chairman Gregory S. Belton of Hunter Keilty Muntz &...
AIA Warns All Businesses on Dangers of Cyber Threats
Sep 8 2003 // The proliferation of the “MS Blaster” worm recently clearly demonstrates just how vulnerable both private and public sector entities remain to an ever-growing variety of cyber threats, according to the American...
AIA Warns All Businesses on Dangers of Cyber Threats
Aug 15 2003 // The proliferation of the “MS Blaster” worm this week clearly demonstrates just how vulnerable both private and public sector entities remain to an ever-growing variety of cyber threats, according to the...
