Author: Russ Banham

You’re a hacker, and you have two targets in mind. One is the website of a large multinational company. The other is the website of a small law firm. The…

The alternative reinsurance market is on steroids, bulking up to represent an estimated 12 percent of the global reinsurance market, according to estimates from Aon Benfield. This may seem like…

Every chemical, oil and gas company is beset by assets that fail to attain full production potential due to downtime. If a particular asset’s availability is 97 percent, that remaining…

One would think the insurance industry—the most data intensive of all businesses—would be leading all others in applying predictive analytics to better price and market its products and services. Think…

The attackers struck unexpectedly and with devastating results. Earlier this year terrorists disabled the electronic shut-off systems on the furnaces at a steel mill in Germany, shutting down the facility…

Companies that communicate an authentic employment brand have much to gain in today’s hot talent market. Kenco is no different from the many other companies that were founded by people…

There are many reasonable and compelling factors driving the ongoing consolidation of the property/casualty insurance industry, from a sheer overabundance of capital to an overwhelming need to reduce expenses. Another…

UNLEASHING THE POWER OF PREDICTIVE MODELING INTO BROADER USES SHOWS GREAT POTENTIAL IN AN INDUSTRY THAT HAS BEEN SLOW TO ADOPT DATA ANALYTICS. The insurance industry’s use of predictive data…

Driverless cars are headed your way soon. No one predicts that fully autonomous cars will clog streets and highways until at least the next generation of drivers. But within two…

Shadow IT is a growing menace—an insidious covert activity undermining a CIO’s ability to run an efficient, safe and coordinated IT department. It’s also may be the best thing that…