The Importance of Mobile Security [ Source: Sprint ]
August 2008- Sprint's head of mobile security, Mark Hasse, talks to Insurance and Technology about the role of security for mobile workers. Especially as Insurance agents and field workers take new mobile platforms and laptops out of the enterprise, there are concerns about losing or compromising sensitive financial and customer information. Hasse talks about the need for awareness, the important topic of securing data at rest, and the encryption solution.

The Hidden Dangers of Everyday Information Transfer [ Source: Sterling Commerce ]
December 2008- Every day financial services organizations share megabytes, gigabytes or even terabytes of data with their business partners around the world using protocols such as FTP, HTTP, S-HTTP, SFTP, and FTPS. If there’s no apparent service outage, security breach or audit failure, most organizations assume these protocols are doing a secure and effective job of file transfer. But each of these protocols has serious flaws that are quietly making it harder for financial services organizations ...

Best Practices in Encryption, Key Management and Tokenization [ Source: nuBridges ]
July 2010- Protecting sensitive and business-critical data is essential to a company’s reputation, profitability and business objectives. Companies know they can’t afford a data breach – customer churn, loss of business, brand damage, fines and litigation. In today’s global market, where business data and personal information know no boundaries, traditional point solutions that protect certain devices or applications against specific risks are insufficient to provide cross-enterprise data security. As enterprises seek to protect data from ...

Best Practices in Data Management [ Source: SAS ]
May 2007- As part of the ERM Global Program, this white paper should be used to establish SAS expertise and leadership in data management, particularly in relation to the development of an enterprise risk management strategy.   

The Security Stack: A Model for Understanding the Cybersecurity We Need [ Source: CSC ]
January 2012- Information security is no longer a mere compliance matter or the cost of doing business. It has become the primary business challenge that financial organizations must address.<br><br> In the new era of cybersecurity threats, highly sophisticated adversaries seek not only to do harm but also to reside in the background undetected, so they can access your intellectual property, operational resources and mission-critical data. <br><br> ...

A New Approach to Compensation Management for Insurance Companies [ Source: Varicent ]
September 2011- Insurance companies are looking for solutions that drive top line revenue growth, increase operational efficiencies, retain and reward top producers and reduce overall financial risk.<br><br> Compensation Management is a highly complex process and vital to the success of an insurance company’s distribution channel strategy. In addition to operational efficiencies, improving compensation management systems can increase producer mindshare and align the channel’s priorities with organizational objectives.

Strengthen your Governance Risk and Compliance Program [ Source: SAP ]
September 2011- Read how insurance companies can gain added value through governance, risk and compliance, which embed rules, processes and controls in keeping their operating policies and strategic objectives. This provides greater transparency into daily operations helping identify potential risks and address them quickly.

Financial Data at Risk in Development: A Call for Data Masking [ Source: Informatica ]
November 2010- This Informatica sponsored study, conducted by the Ponemon Institute, surveyed 437 senior IT professionals in the financial services industry whose organizations have been engaged in application testing and development in order to better understand if the risk of using real data in development is being addressed.

An overlooked privacy risk for financial services organizations is the vulnerability of personal and business information used for testing and application development. During the test and development phase ...

Enterprise Case Management : A Structured framework for holistic management in financial services [ Source: SAS Institute ]
January 2010- Enterprise Case Management significantly reduces the time and effort of investigating fraud and resolving customer service cases. By automating workflows, it unites departments at an enterprise level, and offers comprehensive reporting and management dashboards on demand. It helps eliminate significant day-to-day manual effort, evolving a more comprehensive, enterprise-wide view of risk management across the organization’s risk departments. The solution is adaptable for most any business process that requires tracking of cases across functions and ...