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How Insurance Companies Use Data To Measure Risk And Choose Rates

Smart Data Collective

Here is the type of data insurance companies use to measure a client’s potential risk and determine rates. Traditional data, like demographics, continues to be a factor in risk assessment. Teens and young adults are less experienced drivers and, therefore, at risk for more car accidents. Demographics. This includes: Age.

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Streaming Market Data with Flink SQL Part II: Intraday Value-at-Risk

Cloudera

These interactions are captured and the resulting synthetic data sets can be analysed for a number of applications, such as training models to detect emergent fraudulent behavior, or exploring “what-if” scenarios for risk management. Value-at-Risk (VaR) is a widely used metric in risk management. Intraday VaR. Citations. [1]

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AI, cybersecurity investments and identity take center stage at RSA 2024

CIO Business Intelligence

For many, this spring’s RSA show was an energized, optimistic experience, similar to the pre-pandemic years of 2017-2019. It was truly a good use of time attending the 33rd RSA Conference in San Francisco, along with over 40,000 attendees, networking with the leading minds in the cybersecurity industry.

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Swiss energy services company uses machine learning to see the future

CIO Business Intelligence

But because electricity consumption was easy to gauge, there was no urgency for measuring current and low voltage power flows. That changed in 2017 when Swiss voters approved an energy act that would reduce the country’s dependency on fossil fuels by 2050. Without real-time power measurements, estimated power values were being used.

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Vendor Security is Key to Preventing Future Data Breaches

Smart Data Collective

Unfortunately, there are often many weak links in the data security infrastructure, which can increase the risks of data breaches. However, the Identity Theft Resource Center reports a 68% increase in data breaches at corporations in 2021, surpassing the previous record rise of 23% in 2017.

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LayerX Security Raises $24M for its Browser Security Platform, Enabling Employees to Work Securely from Any Browser, Anywhere

CIO Business Intelligence

Yet, these fundamental work activities expose organizations to a wide range of security risks, like data leaks, identity and password theft, malicious browser extensions, phishing sites and more. Today’s modern enterprise employees rely heavily on browser-based services and SaaS applications.

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When natural disasters strike Japan, ?ita University’s EDiSON is ready to act

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2017, the university created its Education and Research Center for Disaster Risk Reduction and Redesign that focuses on disaster relief – including disaster medicine, prevention education, and reconstruction design. So far, the solution has increased details about disaster-response risk by 40% over traditional methods.

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