by Jeff Yates, ACT Executive Director Recent headlines have underscored the importance of agents having written security plans to protect the privacy of their clients’ personal information. Not only could…
The matrix below lists insurance carriers that have reported to ACT that they support TLS email encryption for their agencies provided the agency has also enabled TLS on their mail…
Q1 What is TLS? TLS (Transport Layer Security) is an encryption process that functions similar to SSL (i.e. https://) which is used by Internet sites to encrypt and protect transmissions…
Agents should consult with their local counsel to customize these sample disclaimers so that they fit their websites and social media sites, are positioned at the appropriate places on the…
Executive Summary The current disparity of carrier handling of passwords within the real-time environment is reducing the benefits of real-time workflows and is discouraging some agency employees from using Real…
by Jeff Yates, ACT Executive Director American citizens are becoming increasingly concerned with the privacy of their health and other personal information. Clients want to know that their agents and…
by Jeff Yates, ACT Executive Director Laptops, Windows based portables, and smart phones allow agents and brokers to stay in touch with their customers and offices and to have access…
by Jim Rogers, The Hartford Email is now entrenched within business workflows and is how a significant amount of business is transacted between agents and carriers. The words shared between…
This Plan for Agency is intended to create effective administrative, technical, electronic and physical protections to safeguard the personal information of the Agency’s Clients and employees, the Agency’s proprietary and…
by Jeff Yates, ACT Executive Director High profile cases of identity theft have been all over the general press in recent weeks. We have seen from these cases just how…
