Global insurance broking and risk management firm Marsh has completed the acquisition of Alexander Forbes' stake in Nigerian insurance broker Femi Johnson & Company (FJC). Marsh intends to merge the newly-acquired business with its ...
More than half (58%) of European mid-sized firms refuse to do business with a company that had suffered a data breach, despite the fact that 41% believe data loss is just an inevitable part of daily business, a new study has revealed. The ...
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Microsoft took a two-year-old contest and turned it on its head to come up with a new reward program that will pay security researchers up to $100,000 for demonstrating novel attack tactics against Windows 8.1. In a broad announcement ...
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Microsoft on Wednesday backpedaled from a long-standing refusal to pay bug bounties when it announced a temporary program for the beta of Internet Explorer 11 (IE11). The Internet Explorer 11 Preview Bug Bounty will start June 26, the day ...
Aon, the UK's largest insurance broker and provider of risk management services, has selected Azzurri Communications to help manage its telecommunications services. The firm will use Azzurri's Intelligent Telecoms Expense Management ...
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Security monitoring – the type involving traditional security information and event management (SIEM) – can be done in some public cloud environments, according to Gartner. And if you're using public cloud services, it's time to ...
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Enterprises are under heavy pressure to change their approach to IT security because of a "nexus of forces" that include big data, social networking, mobile and cloud computing, according to Gartner. Ray Wagner, managing vice president of ...
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Brown & Brown of New York has completed acquisition of certain assets of The Rollins Agency for an undisclosed amount. With annual revenues of approximately $5.5m, The Rollins Agency has been providing a range of insurance products and ...
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Businesses that receive a court order for data similar to the one reportedly?handed to Verizon?by an intelligence agency have no choice but to comply and to take comfort in their immunity from lawsuits, an expert says.? In April, the ...
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Global insurance broking and risk management company Marsh has entered into an agreement to purchase Franco & Acra Tecniseguros, an insurance adviser in the Dominican Republic, for an undisclosed sum. Following completion of the deal, the ...
The development of a grassroots LNG industry in western Canada's British Columbia will be a key factor in companies finalizing plans to invest in new petrochemical ventures in neighboring Alberta, industry officials and producers said late ...
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CastleLine has signed a strategic agreement with Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services to offer a suite of innovative products and services to mortgage industry customers. As part of the agreement, the companies will leverage their ...
Hub International Mountain States, a subsidiary of insurance brokerage firm Hub International, has completed acquisition of the assets of Beartooth Insurance for an undisclosed sum. Located in Montana, Canada, Beartooth Insurance is a ...
Travelers has enhanced its Public Entity Management Liability (PEML) policy to offer limited special expenses coverage reimbursement for finding a replacement for a key public sector employee in case of death or disability leading to ...
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Arthur J Gallagher & Co, an Illinois-based insurance brokerage and risk management services firm, is gearing up to acquire Bollinger, a New Jersey-based brokerage firm with over $100m in revenue. Sources close to the deal were quoted by ...