Updated: July 30, 3 p.m. EDT Microsoft Corp. said it has started to resolve an outage affecting its Azure cloud service. The issue resulted from an unexpected usage surge, according to a status page with live updates on the incident. …
Hackers are selling data about consumers of the LendingTree Inc. subsidiary QuoteWizard after the company detected unauthorized access on a cloud database hosted by Snowflake Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter. There have been several listings of …
New research indicates members of the Fortune 500 could suffer direct financial losses in excess of $20 billion due to a partial outage of third-party cloud services, according to Parametrix. The findings highlight how the disruption of third party cloud …
To compete for top IT talent, the insurance sector will need to evolve. Jay Rabinowitz, vice president of financial services and insurance at Workday, predicts that IT and data scientists at insurance companies will be recruited away by tech firms …
Drivers’ private information can be compromised when stored in the cloud for usage-based insurance (UBI) programs, according to researchers. Using connected-device, or telematics, functions in vehicles, UBI programs determine a consumer’s or fleet’s insurance premium rate by considering several driving …
Howden, the London-based international broking arm of Hyperion Insurance Group, and cyber insurance technology specialists Insurisx Inc. have launched a technology-based platform, designed to help clients of all sizes improve security and resilience from potential cyber attacks. The companies said …
RMS, the Newark, Calif.-based catastrophe risk management firm, announced it has named Sanjiv “Sunny” Sharma as senior vice president of cloud operations and information technology. Sharma joins from Rocket Fuel, a digital advertising firm, where he led the global engineering …
STARS, a business unit of Marsh that provides risk, safety, and claims management software, analytics and services, previewed STARS | ONE, an alpha version of its next-generation risk management platform to 350 global customers and partners at its recent annual …
San Francisco-based cloud software firm Vlocity has launched an app designed for the insurance industry. The new Vlocity industry app allows large enterprise and medium-size businesses to connect with their customers, partners and employees in a manner consistent with the …
CloudInsure, a cloud insurance platform designed to specifically address privacy and security liabilities within the cloud environment, has formed an agreement with independent (re)insurance broker Lockton to provide risk management products for clients exposed to hazards associated with cloud technologies. …
