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Arctic Wolf Expands Cyber JumpStart Program to Help Business Improve Insurability

With the support of its insurance parners, Arctic Wolf opens free Cyber JumpStart program directly to businesses to manage cyber risk and advance insurability and business resilience.

Posted: Aug 04, 2024

Quility Acquires Ninja Technologies LLC

The sales-enablement platform plans to re-brand Ninja and add it to its growing suite of offerings under the Switchboard umbrella.

Posted: Aug 04, 2024

Ascot Names Ian Grayson CIO for U.K. and Bermuda

Grayson is responsible for developing and executing a technology transformation strategy and driving innovation and growth to support Ascot’s UK and Bermuda platforms.

Posted: Aug 04, 2024

Reflecting on CrowdStrike: Disaster, Recovery—The Day After

Moving workloads to cloud providers has advantages, but single-threading through environments or vendors can swap one type of risk for another.

Posted: Aug 01, 2024

EagleView Hires Mark MacDonald as VP, Enterprise Business Development

The former Nay SEAL comes to EagleView after managing regional sales and product innovation at Sherwin-Williams.

Posted: Aug 01, 2024

CrowdStrike Outage: Policyholder Guidance and Insurance Implications

While many such failures, including this one, are unlikely to reach catastrophic levels, the failure of more ubiquitous software products very well could.

Posted: Aug 01, 2024

Trium Adds Lloyd’s Market Experience to its Syndicate Board

Trium has named Hanna Metsanvirta, formerly of Tokio Marine Kiln and MS Amlin, Underwriting Performance Director, and Active Underwriter for Syndicate 1322.

Posted: Jul 31, 2024

Applied Launches Epic Dashboards within Applied Epic

The new embedded data analytics capability provides interactive data visualization capability transforms vital business performance data for specific agency roles.

Posted: Jul 30, 2024

MAPFRE Names Leire Jiménez Group Chief Innovation Officer

Jiménez, who remains CEO of MAWDY, developed her career of over 20 years at both the national and international levels in markets such as the U.K., France, and Asia.

Posted: Jul 30, 2024

CLARA Analytics’ Claims DocIntel Pro Boosts Actionable Document Intelligence

The new solution combines best-in-class GenAI with proprietary AI tools that identify salient details, assess the risk of escalation, and offer actionable recommendations to claims managers.

Posted: Jul 30, 2024

Gradient AI Secures $56 Million in Series C Funding

Led by Centana Growth Partners, the funding will be used to enhance and extend Gradient AI’s range of product solutions and expand customer success and sales functions.

Posted: Jul 29, 2024

iPipeline Names Steve Cover CTO

Cover is tasked with spearheading digital innovation in life insurance and wealth management industries, enhancing value to clients and driving sustained product differentiation.

Posted: Jul 29, 2024

KYND Launches U.S. Cyber Risk Analysis for Insurers

The British solutions provider brings simple, actionable platform to U.S. for easier, more proactive cyber risk portfolio management and resilience.

Posted: Jul 29, 2024

GenAI Solutions Can Bridge the Insurance Talent Gap

Insurance processes can be manually intensive, time-consuming work, and when the workload exceeds your talent pool, something needs to be done to bridge the gap. GenAI is that bridge.

Posted: Jul 28, 2024

Applied Systems Collaborates with Sonata Software

The platform engineering and enterprise modernization company will help Applied Systems to accelerate connectivity and integrations of extended applications.

Posted: Jul 28, 2024

Resilience Names Killian Brady Chief Underwriting Officer

As the company plans for its next phase of growth, Brady will lead underwriting for Resilience’s middle market and large enterprise clients across its Cyber and Tech E&O portfolios.

Posted: Jul 28, 2024

Cowbell Secures $60 million Series C Funding from Zurich Insurance Group

The company will scale up operations to advance global SME cyber adoption, using the capital to fuel growth with new products, geographies and resilience services.

Posted: Jul 25, 2024

Journey From Software to SaaS: Alec Miloslavsky, CEO, EIS

Miloslavsky discusses the current insurance technology market and its challenges, and how EIS’s journey to SaaS positions the company for continued success.

Posted: Jul 25, 2024

Insurance and IT Outages: What Can We Do After the CrowdStrike Incident?

(Image credit: Shutterstock.) Early Friday morning, July 19, 2024, CrowdStrike’s IT infrastructure went down due to a defective software update, and brought many businesses’ systems down with it; the impact rippled across the world, grounding planes...

Posted: Jul 24, 2024

Liberty Mutual Names Julie Haase EVP and CFO

The company’s current Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Chris Peirce will retire at the end of 2024.

Posted: Jul 24, 2024

Blink Parametric Launches Flight Disruption Solution with Heymondo

The solution will be underwritten by global insurance, reinsurance and services MAPRE subsidiary MAWDY.

Posted: Jul 24, 2024

Ivans Announces Latest Release of Distribution Platform

Enhanced carrier dashboards featured in the latest release increase visibility into agency submission trends and growth opportunities.

Posted: Jul 24, 2024

Laris Motorsports Insurance Selects BriteCore as Core Platform to Accelerate Growth

The company seeks to expand its proposition of bringing comprehensive and affordable coverage to motorsports racing owners.

Posted: Jul 23, 2024

Applied Systems Acquires AI Platform Company Planck

The strategic acquisition was made with the aim of significantly expanding and accelerating the delivery of AI capabilities across Applied’s global product portfolio.

Posted: Jul 23, 2024

John Tuttle Named President of Acrisure

The Vice Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange will join Acrisure as President effective Sept. 1, 2024.

Posted: Jul 23, 2024