Worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach US$81.6 billion this year, an increase of 7.9% over 2015, according to the latest forecast from Gartner, Inc., an information technology research and advisory company based in Stamford, Conn. Consulting…
A security analyst team at AppRiver, a cloud-based cybersecurity company based in Gulf Breeze, Fl., has quarantined 4.2 billion emails containing malware in the second quarter of 2016, “pointing to a continued increase in malware traffic this year.” The emails…
Impact Forecasting announced on Tuesday that it has launched ELEMENTS 10, its complete catastrophe modelling platform, which includes new flood models for Canada. ELEMENTS 10 offers the ability to run insurers’ own or third-party model, plus access to new flood…
By 2020, a corporate “no-cloud” policy will be as rare as a “no-Internet” policy is today, according to a new report from information technology research and advisory company Gartner, Inc. Cloud-first, and even cloud-only, is replacing the defensive no-cloud stance…
The increased adoption of cloud-based services among enterprises is the primary driver for growth in the global critical infrastructure protection market, according to global market research company Technavio. Research analysts at Technavio predicted on Wednesday that the global critical infrastructure…
IBM Security has announced that eight universities – including three in Canada – will help train its Watson computer system on the “language of security” as part of a year-long research project. Watson for Cyber Security, a new cloud-based version…
Worldwide spending on security related to the Internet of Things (IoT) will reach US$348 million in 2016, a 23.7% increase from 2015 spending of US$281.5 million, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company based in…
Kanetix Ltd. has partnered with ClientDesk Inc. to offer a new insurance solution to insurance providers, intermediaries and their customers – a mobile self-service technology for policyholders that allows insurance providers to connect with their clients via a mobile app.…
Enterprise cloud adoption has matured in recent years, but employees using cloud apps continue to display “reckless technology habits” that put their employers at risk, according to a study released on Wednesday by a North American IT solutions and managed…
SAN DIEGO — Catastrophe modelling firm AIR Worldwide has launched what it calls the first open source deterministic cyber risk scenario, a move meant to help individual companies and the insurance industry as a whole better understand aggregated risk from…
Risk Management Solutions, Inc. (RMS) announced on Thursday that it has released the “first ever” app to model ‘cat-in-a-box’ deals. The cloud-based app extends the ability to independently assess and underwrite parametric contracts from a small group of cedant, brokers…