Ponemon Institute

• RIMS Rocks Los Angeles: Seen & Heard on the Floor

  May 1, 2013

  The RIMS 2014 Annual Conference and Exhibition, held in Los Angeles on April 21-24 brought together the world’s top risk management professionals. Keynote speaker Simon Sinek, author and leadership expert, addressed the General Session with a speech in which he utilized aspects of human biology to illustrate what motivates people...

• Just One-third of Small Businesses Suffering Data Breaches Notify Customers: Survey

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360  |  March 29, 2013

  More than half of small U.S. businesses surveyed by the Ponemon Institute were found to have experienced at least one data breach in the entire span of their operations, but only a third notified customers of the situation.

• Survey: Just 1/3 of Small Businesses Experiencing Data Breach Notify Customers

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360  |  March 8, 2013

  More than half of small U.S. businesses surveyed by the Ponemon Institute were found to have experienced at least one data breach in the entire span of their operations, but only a third notified customers of the situation.

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  Could Nationwide’s Security Breach Happen to Any Insurer?

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  December 11, 2012

  The security breach of Nationwide Insurance last week is the last thing anyone in the business world wants to announce. There’s a level of trust associated with any company that consumers choose to do business with, but despite the best efforts of those companies and their security teams, the attack...

• Safe and Sound

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  December 11, 2012

  There’s much to be excited about in insurance technology today, but the tools that carriers and their customers are attracted to also create new challenges for security teams. Keeping processes seamless and protecting customer data have put security teams into the spotlight.

• Cyber Coverage: Protecting Against the ‘Hack Attack’

  By Anya Khalamayzer, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 19, 2012

  Cybercrime, including identity fraud, is the world’s fastest-proliferating criminal threat. According to Interpol, cybercrime, which used to be committed by expert individuals, is now perpetrated by organized syndicates that target big and small businesses alike. The crime-enforcement association estimates that, to date, such organizations have stolen up to $1 trillion...

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  Wi-Fi and Mobile Devices Add to Cybercrime Cost and Confusion

  By Shannon Frech, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 12, 2012

  Travelers’ enterprise cyber lead weighs-in on “the human element” and offers advice for companies seeking to mitigate the risk of a cyber attack.

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  Security and Insurers: Safe and Sound (for Now)

  By Robert Regis Hyle, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  November 8, 2012

  Other than sharing common products, the differences between the top tier of insurance carriers and their smaller rivals can be enormous. Those differences are even more apparent when looking at the issue of security. Larger insurers have a target on their back that the mid-tier don’t have to deal with,...

• Changing Cyber Coverage

  By Steve Haase, Allen Cross  |  July 29, 2012

  Because cyber liability coverage and state and federal legislation constantly change to address risks of an increasingly mobile world, navigating the market and convincing clients they need cyber coverage are difficult.

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  10 Tips When Considering Cyber Insurance

  By Rick Kam, CIPP, Jeremy Henley, CHPC  |  March 28, 2012

  In the last of a three-part series, our experts detail how to advise businesses on buying insurance coverage for data breaches.

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  Healthcare Data Breaches: Handle with Care

  By Rick Kam, CIPP, Jeremy Henley, CHPC  |  March 20, 2012

  In the second of a three-part series on cyber liability, the authors examine the 5 reasons why medical records are especially vulnerable to data breach.

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  RIMS Report Examines Cyber Management through ERM

  By Caroline McDonald, PropertyCasualty360.com  |  February 6, 2012

  With both public and private sector organizations reeling in the wake of the hacking of VeriSign and other security companies, risk managers are more aware than ever of cyber risk and the need for best practices in managing it, according to the Risk and Insurance Management Society.

• After ‘Year of the Data Breach,’ Carriers Increase Capacity, Competition for Cyber Risks

  By Michael P. Voelker  |  February 2, 2012

  As cyber risks increasingly become a top-of-mind issue for a wide spectrum of businesses, the market for policies is wide open—and the competition intense.

• Media Companies, Like Much of Corporate America, See Increasing Need for Cyber Coverage

  By James Murdock  |  January 13, 2012

  As traditional media companies adapt and attempt to thrive within the rapidly changing digital space, they are discovering—sometimes painfully—that their insurance coverage also must evolve.

• Dishing Up Cyber Risk

  By Heidi A. Strommen  |  December 1, 2011

  As cyber criminals focus on small and mid-sized businesses with less network securities in place, restaurants have become a growing target for cyber crime. Learn how to protect your restaurant customers.

• Private "I"

  By Paul Miskovich, Edward Seidl  |  August 1, 2011

  Learn how to insure clients against privacy losses when dealing with hackers, identity thieves and lawsuits.