CTO / Technology
CEO Viewpoint: Winning the War for Talent to Harness the Full Power of Predictive Analytics
The reputation of the insurance industry has long been that it follows behind other industries in the use and implementation of technology. Across numerous other industries, big data and analytics ...
Guy Carpenter’s Satellite Imaging Service Assisting Insurers with UK Floods
Reinsurance specialist Guy Carpenter & Co. recently launched a satellite-based catastrophe evaluation service, GC CAT-VIEWSM, which it is already using to provide clients affected by the recent ...
OECD Wants Broker, Insurer Data Included in Tax Evasion Crackdown
Accounts at brokers and insurers need to be included along with banks in a plan designed to share data among governments to crack down on tax evasion, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and ...
RMS(one) To Be Available in April; ARA Putting Hurricane Model on Platform
On Tuesday, RMS announced that it will release version 1.0 of RMS(one), the company's exposure and risk-management platform, on Apr. 15, 2014. All RMS catastrophe models, as well as select models ...
Netflix’s House of Cards and Other Big Data Case Studies
How did program developers at Netflix know that viewers of the BBC television series "House of Cards" also enjoyed movies starring Kevin Spacey and directed by David Finch? They analyzed big data to ...U.S. Releases Guidelines for Improved Corporate Cybersecurity
The U.S. government on Wednesday released the final version of standards meant to help companies in nationally critical industries better defend against cyber attacks, and officials now face the ...U.S. to Unveil Voluntary Guidelines for Corporate Cybersecurity
The U.S. government is expected on Wednesday to release the final version of voluntary standards meant to help U.S. companies in nationally critical industries better protect themselves against cyber ...
‘The Mask’ Revealed; Researchers Find Cyber Spies Targeting Govt. Agencies, Energy Cos .
A computer security software firm has uncovered what it calls the first cyber espionage campaign believed to be started by a Spanish-speaking country, targeting government agencies, energy companies ...