Tech

Hitting the Target

How data, strategy and technology can help you drive growth from your existing cutomer base during a hard market

March 9, 2020

4 min read

Canadian military equipment vulnerable to cyberattacks, officials say

OTTAWA – Canada and the United States are working together to make their high-tech military equipment less hackable, top defence officials said in Ottawa Thursday, but they have a lot of work to do. Speaking to the Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence, Ellen Lord, the U.S. undersecretary of defence for acquisition and sustainment, suggested […]

By Jason Contant | March 6, 2020

3 min read

What happens when insurance, technology and healthcare collide?

The convergence of healthcare and technology could have a knock-on effect for the Canadian property and casualty insurance industry, a specialty insurer said recently. “For healthcare providers, they can largely model what the risks have been for the last 100 years because they haven’t changed,” Tim Boyce, healthcare team leader with London, U.K.-based CFC Underwriting […]

By Jason Contant | March 5, 2020

2 min read

How high-tech venture capital funding leads to better cyber insurance pricing

Recent advances in cybersecurity, driven in part by a spike in venture capital funding, are helping insurers price cyber more accurately, an insurance industry consultant suggests. “There is a huge advancement around the use of artificial intelligence and advanced analytics techniques to better identify, detect, and prevent cyber intrusions,” said Keegan Iles, national insurance consulting […]

By Greg Meckbach | March 4, 2020

2 min read