What is Cybercrime? Like traditional crime, cybercrime covers a broad scope of criminal activity and can occur anytime and anyplace. What makes it different is that the crime is committed…
By Danielle Johnson, Director of IT, InsurBanc The consumerization of IT revolution — sparked by the iPhone — has shifted the IT culture so that the users are the ones…
By Jeff Yates, ACT Executive Director The Internet and mobility revolutions have enabled agents and their clients to live in an electronic world where the parties can work and communicate…
by Bill Murray, CISSP IT Risk, Security & Compliance Manager Westfield Group Highlights of Report The federal Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act requires independent agencies and brokers to proactively implement administrative, technical, and…
More and more of us are using our computers while we are on trips and are making use of the ever increasing number of wireless hotspots that are popping up…
by Sabrena Sally, CPCU Not a day goes by without my email containing an invitation to join a social networking site. Whether used for business contacts, maintaining contact with friends…
by Sabrena Sally, CPCU Over 40% of agencies insured through the IIABA-Swiss Re E&O program now have their own website, having grown from 19% in 2006. Having a good website,…
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…