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Ontario-based Pen Underwriting Canada launches cyber insurance product

February 15, 2017 by Canadian Underwriter

Burlington, Ont.-based Pen Underwriting Canada Limited announced on Wednesday that it has created a comprehensive cyber solution to respond to the “increasing threat that cybercrime poses for corporations.” Backed by A+ rated capacity, the specialist cyber product is designed for

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IBM’s famed Watson computer ‘gets a job’ fighting cybercrime threat

February 13, 2017 Kevin Bissett - THE CANADIAN PRESS

FREDERICTON – A year after IBM began teaching its Watson computer system to fight cybercrime, the company is making the platform available for use. “Now he gets a job and makes us some money,” quipped Caleb Barlow, vice-president of IBM

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Police investigating possible cyber threat against Ontario’s Hydro One: company

January 4, 2017 The Canadian Press

TORONTO – Ontario’s Hydro One says it is assisting Canadian law enforcement agencies in an ongoing investigation into a possible cyber threat against the electricity distributor. The company’s chief security officer, Rick Haier, says they were contacted by the RCMP

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U.S. prosecutor’s office paid bitcoin ransom in cyberattack

December 6, 2016 Joe Mandak - THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

PITTSBURGH – A state prosecutor’s office in Pennsylvania was among hundreds of thousands of victims of a now-shuttered international cybercrime operation, paying nearly $1,400 in a bitcoin ransom to free up its infected computer network, authorities disclosed Monday. Federal prosecutors

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Ed launches global cyber academy

November 4, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Ed, the global reinsurance, wholesale and specialty broker, announced on Friday the launch of what it is calling the insurance industry’s first global cyber academy. The Ed Cyber Academy, which will be led by Peter Hacker, the company’s group chief innovation officer,

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Commercial insurers in Canada face challenges, opportunities: Kadow

September 12, 2016 Angela Stelmakowich, Editor

CALGARY — Current trends around ownership of brokers by insurers is “basically leaving the mid- to large end of the commercial market to fight over,” Ulrich Kadow, chief agent, Canada for Allianz Global Corporate & Specialty Americas (AGCS), said in

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Global cybersecurity market to grow from US$122.45 billion to US$202.36 billion by 2021: report

August 10, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

The global cybersecurity market is set to grow from US$122.45 billion in 2016 to US$202.36 billion by 2021 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 10.6%, according to a recent report from Research and Markets. The Cyber Security Market

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Economic crime in global financial services sector has increased, despite compliance investments: PwC

July 27, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Despite “significantly increasing investment in compliance and being continuously under the scrutiny of regulators,” economic crime in the global financial services sector has increased slightly, showing new thinking is needed to make investment in compliance deliver more value and tackle

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Global insurers can now register for “cyber-safe” .insurance domain name

May 5, 2016 by Canadian Underwriter

Early registration for the “cyber-safe” .insurance domain name opened on Wednesday via Instra Corporation, the corporate domain name retailer subsidiary of London, United Kingdom-based CentralNic plc. The protected domain space for the insurance industry “promises enhanced security for tens of