Data Firm Palantir’s Partnership with Japan’s Sompo Insurance Targets Health, Cyber November 18, 2019 By Jane Lanhee Lee and Sam Nussey Silicon Valley data analytics company Palantir Technologies Inc. has established a joint venture with Japanese insurance holding company Sompo Holdings...
FBI Warns on Rise in Sophisticated Cyber Crimes November 14, 2019 By Andrew Selsky On Dec. 14, 2018, Aaron Cole was about to buy a new house and received an email that he thought...
Cyber Insurance Will Reshape Cybersecurity October 11, 2019 By Asaf Lifshitz Cybersecurity is broken. It’s a bold statement, but given the increasing frequency of cyber breaches, along with the presence of...
CFC Acquires Cyber Incident Response Provider, Solis Security, in Austin October 8, 2019 CFC, a UK-based specialist insurance provider and pioneer in emerging risk, has expanded its in-house cyber incident response capabilities with...
New York Files Suit Against Dunkin’ Donuts Over Security Breaches October 1, 2019 Dunkin’ Donuts violated state law by not notifying almost 20,000 customers, including more than 2,000 in New York, about cyberattacks...
As Breaches Rise, So Do Cybersecurity Pros’ Paychecks August 8, 2019 By Anders Melin It took a $650,000 salary for Matt Comyns to entice a seasoned cybersecurity expert to join one of America’s largest...
A Year after GDPR, How Can U.S. Insurers Prepare for Data Privacy Regs Closer to Home? July 30, 2019 By Elizabeth Blosfield More than a year after the European Union implemented its General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), U.S. insurers are examining what...
Viewpoint: What Insurance Industry Should Acknowledge About Small Business Cyber July 30, 2019 By Josh Ladeau The 2018 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report cited that 58% of cyber-attack victims were small businesses, and the 2019 Symantec...
The Evolution of Cyber Liability Exposure and Coverage July 29, 2019 By Patrick Wraight On July 25, Insurance Journal’s Academy of Insurance hosted a webinar by Joe Harrington, entitled The Evolution of Cyber Liability....
U.K. Networks Could Become Less Secure if Huawei Is Banned, MPs Say July 19, 2019 By Kitty Donaldson Barring Huawei Technologies Co. from operating in the U.K. could lower security standards and make networks less resilient to malicious...