The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 30, 2019

Turn the corner into 2019 and we find Citigroup, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo and HSBC Life Insurance among a host of firms hitting the crisis button after their customers’ records turned up on a database of some 24 million financial and banking documents found parked on an Internet-accessible server — without so much as password protection.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) held its Summer 2021 National Meeting (Summer Meeting) August 14-17, 2021. Highlights include, among others, adoption of revised risk-based capital bond factors for life insurers, amendments to SSAP No. NAIC Adopts Revised Risk-Based Capital Bond Factors for Life Insurers.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 11, 2023

AI and ML technologies can sift through enormous volumes of health data—from health records and clinical studies to genetic information—and analyze it much faster than humans. One example comes from a study in Nature Medicine, which found that up to 70% of patients don’t take insulin as prescribed.

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Adam Levin

JUNE 30, 2020

While there’s no shortage of examples of ransomware attacks, a recent study by data protection firm Veritas suggests an even bigger problem that few, if any, companies are prepared for: Customers are increasingly laying the blame on companies, specifically their CEOs, rather than on the hackers perpetrating the attacks.

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IBM Big Data Hub

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

According to a recent IBV study , 64% of surveyed CEOs face pressure to accelerate adoption of generative AI, and 60% lack a consistent, enterprise-wide method for implementing it. All Granite foundation models have been trained on enterprise-focused datasets curated by IBM. for clients and partners to work with.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

According to a recent market study 1 , 71% of individuals surveyed said double and triple extortion tactics have grown in popularity over the last 12 months, and 65% agree that these new threats make it tougher to refuse ransom demands. Invest in security awareness training to inform all personnel and familiarize them with ransomware threats.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Insurers struggle to manage profitability while trying to grow their businesses and retain clients. Large, well-established insurance companies have a reputation of being very conservative in their decision making, and they have been slow to adopt new technologies.

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Adam Levin

JULY 8, 2020

Far from being jealously guarded assets with Fort Knox-level security, a new study of Forbes Global 2000 Companies suggests many domain names are imminently hackable. Regardless of how secure you believe your company to be, regular security training for employees is a must (even if you are the only employee).

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AIIM

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In addition to this, recruitment costs, training expenditures, productivity loss and negative reviews from clients are just a few examples of what the wrong person in the wrong place can do. Following the insurance companies’ footsteps, employers gather health-related data of their staff and candidates.

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erwin

MARCH 30, 2020

Free Resources : Check out the erwin Rapid Resource Center for free access to our online product training and other materials to help you navigate the COVID-19 crisis. Privately it will come from hospitals, labs, pharmaceutical companies, doctors and private health insurers. Managing and Governing Data From Lots of Disparate Sources.

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Collibra

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Learn how Definity Financial, a group of innovative property and casualty insurance companies, put their organization on the fast track to data intelligence with the power of Collibra Data Catalog and Google Cloud. Ensure data quality: It’s essential to ensure your data catalog has accurate, up-to-date, trustworthy data.

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Reltio

JANUARY 29, 2020

These home warranties have been a boon for the insurance industry because this segment grows 3.1% chance to incur a service visit for their home appliance based on a 2018 study. This also seems to be in line with a 5-year failure analysis study by Consumer Reports. Failure by Design or Ignorance?

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Records breached: 512,000 documents, with details of insurance investigations, vehicle registration certificates, notices of car seizures and payment card details. Records breached: Exact numbers unknown, but names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, health insurance information and class lists were exfiltrated.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 22, 2016

million settlement with the Minnesota Attorney General for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) and its implementing regulations, and various Minnesota debt collection and consumer protection laws. provide training to its employees regarding its HIPAA policies and procedures.

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Collibra

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Organizations need to be vigilant about their data use because consumers have a unique and protective relationship with their health information; in fact, RSA Archer conducted a study on data security and found that 61% of American consumers are concerned about the security of their medical information.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 23, 2021

The PIPL includes a specific obligation on data controllers to adopt corresponding encryption or deidentification technologies, and to adopt access controls and training. Training : organisations must provide data privacy training. Additional safeguards must be applied for sensitive personal information and processing by CIIOs.

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Collibra

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

As training data, it can also produce skewed ML models. According to a study, about 80% of the time of a data engineer is spent on updating, maintaining and assuring the quality of the data pipeline. For example, an insurance service provider can work out the range of risk factor evaluation and include it in business rules.

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Data Matters

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Finally, DOT will undertake a “study of the workforce impacts of automated vehicles” in collaboration with the Departments of Labor, Commerce, and Health and Human Services. consider test driver training and licensing procedures for test vehicles. Second, AV 3.0 State, local, and tribal governments. The private sector.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Yet, unpatched vulnerabilities provide attackers with open opportunities to cause great damage – with studies showing unpatched vulnerabilities estimated to account for 30-60% of all breaches! These will combine to save time by helping new IT employees grasp the status and expectations of the organization with less training.

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KnowBe4

MAY 9, 2023

New school security awareness training can help any organization sustain that line of defense and create a strong security culture. Find your weak passwords: [link] [Eye Opener] HTML Phishing Attacks Surge by 100% In 12 Months The Cyberwire reported: "Barracuda released a study indicating that HTML attacks have doubled since last year.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The Attorney General’s proposed regulations are thick with important provisions, and businesses should study the full regulations carefully. HIGHLIGHTS. Require businesses that provide financial incentives for different types of products or services based on the value of the consumer’s information (e.g.,

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Rocket Software

MARCH 17, 2022

For example, a large healthcare insurance provider may want to increase claim automation rates or operational first pass rates from 65% to 85% within the calendar year. How much do the software, robots, training, initial implementation and automation discovery cost? Think about acquisition cost. Understand the competitive landscape.

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Cyber Info Veritas

MAY 16, 2018

In school, you were taught to “compete” against those who got the better GPA and SAT to secure an entry into college and the same process repeats in your undergraduate studies when looking to be accepted into a graduate school. I also got my own Liability insurance. You can get a quote from an insurance company.

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The Texas Record

MAY 1, 2020

Training series have been clarified and expanded. 1.1.043 Training Materials now includes class rosters, sign-in sheets, etc. description explains that this series is only for training of non-personnel 3.3.030 Internal Training Administration Records now includes class rosters, sign-in sheets, etc. What’s missing?

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. For example, The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) requires security features such as encryption to protect patients’ health information.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The Attorney General’s proposed regulations are thick with important provisions, and businesses should study the full regulations carefully. Recordkeeping and Training (§ 998.317). Highlights. free vs. paid streaming), to quantify the value of consumers’ information and disclose the value and methods used to calculate it.

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KnowBe4

MAY 31, 2023

The next layer in your defense should be a user that's properly educated using security awareness training to easily identify financial fraud and other phishing-based threats, stopping them before they do actual damage. Get a look at THREE NEW FEATURES and see how easy it is to train and phish your users. By Jacqueline Jayne.

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AIIM

JANUARY 23, 2020

This is the first part of a 3-part series on the Ethical Use of Data for Training Machine Learning Technology by guest authors Andrew Pery and Michael Simon. Moreover, such systems have been proven to be wildly inaccurate, as recent studies in the UK show, up to 96 percent. Part 1: Bad Things Can Come from Non-neutral Technology.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 11, 2023

So it can be argued that those who guard against that should be formally trained, knowledgeable. But I am not formally trained. My CISSP cert was the product of studying and a lot of very hard work. My CISSP cert was the product of studying and a lot of very hard work. And you know, I'm not an insurance guy.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 30, 2023

VAMOSI: Does Mark typically work with insurance? LANCE : we work closely with insurance. It had its own recruiters, HR, Fiance, and in addition to engineers, there’s a team of customer support members. By no means. Does that mean that there was no ransomware occurring? So the earlier the better. work very closely.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

And it gives them the ability to do so much younger in life than many others do and with much less formal education; I care much more about skills than degrees in tech people, but my doctor / lawyer / pilot better have a heap of formal qualifications from many years of study behind them!

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In defeating feature fatigue, researchers from the University of Maryland presented participants in a controlled study with models of a new audio and video player that differed only in the number of features offered. A second study presented participants with a list of 25 features on a new audio or video player.

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

There are many customer acquisition, engagement, and retention models, as well as studies describing the costs of finding new customers versus retaining them. Archival services imply long-term storage of content such as pension records, life insurance policies, real-estate transactions, magazines, and much more.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This becomes very onerous if you are doing a long study. In some studies it is not possible to seek consent, either because a very large sample size is needed to generate a robust result, and that would be practically difficult to obtain, or because seeking consent would introduce bias. I am sure that many noble Lords use statins.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 6, 2023

A new, HUGE, very important, fact has been gleaned by Barracuda Networks which should impact the way that EVERYONE does security awareness training. CONTINUED] at KnowBe4 blog: [link] [Live Demo] Ridiculously Easy Security Awareness Training and Phishing Old-school awareness training does not hack it anymore. make up only 0.1%

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KnowBe4

MARCH 14, 2023

In another case, a doctor input his patient's name and their medical condition and asked ChatGPT to craft a letter to the patient's insurance company. Your employees need to be stepped through new-school security awareness training so that they understand the risks of doing things like this. link] Let's stay safe out there.

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Role Model Software

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The Dreyfus Model of Skill Acquisition and studies since then have identified the different levels of expertise and the implications of each. I know of one company in the insurance industry that has 95% or more of its developers having less than 5 years of development experience. It is easy to find a Novice and many do.

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