One of the most soul-destroying events that can happen to a company is for a bean counter to be appointed as CEO with a vision that involves cost cutting and not much else. While I am one of the first to hold true to “In God we trust, all others bring data”, I have seen too many companies damaged from a CEO overly focused on cost cutting. A CEO that is dumped within a few years. 

Don’t get me wrong. A focus on costs is important and sometimes dramatic cost cutting is essential, however, as with a

A strategy is of itself a hypothesis. Something that is proved true or false over time.  For more on this, read one of my most popular blogs here: A strategy is but a hypothesis.

In proving your hypothesis, you eventually find out if you are spending on a failed strategy or if you are investing in a successful one.

The key to shifting from spending to investing is to set up your strategy, from the start, so you can measure your spend and your return on your investment each step of the way. This al

We need data we can trust so that we can build trust using data. However, it is not as easy as it sounds. 

It seems like 2017 broke records for all the wrong reasons…one of them being the worst year for data breaches in history.

According to reports, hacking was the most common way to collect this data, but almost 70% of exposures occurred due to accidental leaks or human error. This came down to more than 5 billion records. There were several well-known public leaks, too, including the Amazon Web Services misconfiguration. More than half of the businesses using this service were affected, including c

Connected Claims Europe 2018 returns to London this October (29^th & 30^th) to welcome 250+ senior insurance claims executives. The event is focussed on uncovering how insurers are taking steps to re-engineer the claims function to raise operational efficiency and improve customer experience.

Now is the time for claims to realise the potential that technology offers to satisfy the high expectations of the modern client and drive operational efficiency. The claims process is changing for the better

The insurance industry is entering an age of disruption and digital transformation. Bespoke products and personalized outreach will soon be the new norm, and insurance carriers will see pivotal changes powered by AI solutions.

With new technologies enabling both operational efficiency and a superior customer experience, from artificial intelligence to drones and mobile customer communication methods, we are proud to announce that nominations have opened in 2018 Insurance Nexus Canadian Awards. T

AI and machine learning are proving to be the only methods in which organizations will meet customer demands at scale and as the race to win customers’ heart becomes tighter than ever, carriers are having to compete with tech giants for AI’s vital ingredients: talent and data.

Which is why the Insurance Analytics Canada Summit (Sep 25-26, Toronto) is bringing together the industry’s heavyweights to discuss how AI and advanced analytics can be utilized to deliver unparalleled performance, business

Over 40% of insurance carriers in Canada have not yet seen a clear return from their investments into advanced analytics (Canada’s First Insurance Analytics & AI Survey, Insurance Nexus, 2018).

Which is why Insurance Nexus is bringing Fernando Moreira (Senior Vice President of Global Insurance, Scotiabank) and Jean-François Larochelle (Director Data Lab, Intact) to discuss how to successfully deploy analytics into underwriting, distribution and claims processing, including their results and the c

According to a brand-new survey from Insurance Nexus 94% of respondents agreed that AI is going to deeply transform the insurance industry.

The message is clear. AI is going to hit insurance big time – so you need to ensure you’re prepared for the future. 

One way to do this is to check out our newly released “Insurance AI & Analytics Innovation Survey”, where we quizzed 250 of the brightest minds in the European insurance community. By reading it, you’ll get the low-down on the latest trends in a

After a hugely successful two days in 2017, Insurance Nexus are delighted to announce that our Insurance Analytics Canada Summit will be returning to Toronto in 2018, September 25-26, at the Westin Prince Hotel.

Written by insurance carriers, for insurance carriers, Insurance Analytics Canada is Canada’s largest analytics summit and the only conference to focus exclusively on new strategies for embedding AI and advanced analytics in insurance. Over 300 C-level attendees will learn from the exper

According to a brand-new survey from Insurance Nexus 94% of respondents agreed that AI is going to deeply transform the insurance industry.

The message is clear.  AI is going to hit insurance big time – so you need to ensure you’re prepared for the future. 

One way to do this is to check out our newly released “Canada's first insurance analytics and AI survey”, where we quizzed 250 of the brightest minds in insurance.  By reading it, you’ll get the low-down on the latest trends in analytics, AI a

Enrique Suarez Presenting:

OneBankAssure: Customer Intimacy Through Machine

Learning

By:

MIT CISR

Chief risk officers and heads of operational risk responded to a survey held by Risk.net and identified their top risk concerns. Their number one concern was IT disruption, while their second highest concern was data compromise. Why is cybersecurity risk on everyone’s mind?

For one thing, technology is an inescapable reality of every business. Even the smallest of mom and pop shops have an electronic system to make credit card transactions, while larger corporations rely on immense data centers t

What’s worse than a vendor that suffers a data breach that exposes your sensitive customer information? The answer: A vendor that waits almost six months to tell you about it.

That’s the issue that both Sears and Delta Air Lines are facing after a malware attack on each of the company’s online chat services vendors. Hundreds of thousands of customers’ payment information was accessed, including payment card account numbers, expiration dates, names, and addresses, reports Gizmodo. Sears and Delta

On Sunday April 1, Retail group Hudson’s Bay disclosed that it was the victim of a security breach that compromised data on payment cards used at Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor stores in North America.

As many as 5 million cards may have been compromised, which would make the breach one of the largest involving payment cards over the past year.

Customers, investors, and regulators learned of this breach not through any press release issued by the company itself, but through news of the data a

Many Internet users are wondering why so many applications and websites need to know our geolocation without special need. And, more importantly, what is being done with this information?

The question is: how to access popular websites, but at the same time block geo-tracking of your laptop or smartphone?

10 useful tips to protect your geolocation data

The below information gives you an idea of ​​what you can be done to make sure that your geolocation is not being tracked. Some methods in this list

Facebook’s market capitalization dropped as much as $60 billion after reports emerged that Cambridge Analytica, the data consulting firm used by the Trump Campaign, was given the data of around 50 million Facebook users without their consent.

The Cambridge Analytica scandal is the latest in a series of risk management failures that have plagued the social networking company, which has been grappling with its role in the dissemination of fake news propaganda during the 2016 U.S. presidential elect

Have you ever thought about how a data breach could affect you personally? What about your business? Either way, it can be devastating. Fortunately, there are ways that you can protect your personal or business data, and it’s easier than you think. Don’t assume that protecting yourself is impossible just because big corporations get hit with data breaches all of the time. There are things you can do to get protected.

• All of your important accounts should use two-factor authentication. This helps

Introduction

In a conventional security thinking, IT Security at most of the enterprises follow old ‘Industrial Security Model’ where its considered that assets are held within a perimeter and users must enter the perimeter physically or logically (LAN/VPN) to access the assets and the perimeter is guarded by a gatehouse / guard. In other words, this model is called perimeterised computer network where data and applications is attached to the network and is protected by firewalls with access lis

Do you have employees who bring mobile phones to work and use those devices on the corporate network? Do they store company data on these “Bring Your Own Devices (BYOD)”?? Does your company have a policy in place for this?

First, the moment a person brings in their personal phone to work, there is a fusion of personal and business tasks that occur. And, equally as bad, company issued devices are used for personal use as much, if not more than the employees own devices. Not sure you believe this?