Smart Home Product Security Risks Can Be Alarming January 3, 2019 By TAMARA DIETRICH, The Daily Press Say you’re on your laptop at Starbucks, minding your own business, when an acquaintance of yours across the room isn’t...
How Big Tech Flirted with Insurance in 2018 January 2, 2019 By Andrew G. Simpson The almost weekly headlines about insurers and venture capitalists investing in insurtechs and tech-savvy insurance startups sometimes blocked the view...
Travelers Teams with Amazon to Offer Smart Home Products, Insurance Quotes October 16, 2018 The Travelers Companies Inc. is teaming up with Amazon to offer smart home kits, insurance quotes and risk management information...
Home Security Camera’s Face Recognition Even Knows Family Dog February 23, 2018 By Stephen Nellis A team of engineers that worked on self-driving cars and helped invent Google Street View wants to help people guard...
Munich Re, Aviva Ventures Invest in UK Connected Home Insurer Neos May 30, 2017 Neos, a UK connected home insurer, announced last week it has secured a £5 million (roughly $6.4 million) series A...
How ‘Exposure Data Tracking’ Is Taking Over Personal Lines Insurance May 12, 2017 By Joseph S. Harrington, CPCU, ARP Today’s insurers want to be there for their customers—literally. With sensors of various kinds in policyholders’ cars, homes and personal...
Connected Homes Heighten Need for Personal Cyber Insurance January 27, 2017 Eight out of ten U.S. consumers have a home data network and more than a third of them connect entertainment...
U.S. Claims Home-Networking Firm D-Link Poses Hacking Risk January 6, 2017 By Kartikay Mehrotra A U.S. consumer protection watchdog sued a Taiwan-based maker of home-networking equipment over claims that lax security left its products...