The Internet has opened up new possibilities for growth in insurance. The tradeoff, however, comes in the area of security, where insurers now have more data subject to greater privacy risk than ever before.

Technology has allowed for growth in insurance, but it has created new risks that require a specific management plan.

Institutional ignorance represents one of the largest hurdles for insurers who need to deal with data privacy.

Evaluating potential for loss and magitude of harm helps establish risk categorization, a central piece of any insurer's security program.

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Bear Stearns and LehmanBrothers executives that survived the collapses of their firmsand found new jobs should get bigger bonuses than their peersat Goldman Sachs Group Inc, a compensation consultantsaid Thursday.

world's largest listed hedge fund group, fell more than 27percent on Thursday on fears of further client redemptions,while other asset managers also reported gloomy results.

Fidelity National Property & Casualty Insurance Group (St. Petersburg, Fla.) has signed on to offer SceneExchange, Scene Genesis' (Pittsford, N.Y.) Web portal that enables insureds to choose an auto body shop online for repair of their damaged vehicle. Initially, SceneExchange

Agora-X, LLC, which is creating a new electronic trading and negotiation platform for commodities, has submitted a petition to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) to enable the clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) contracts in major agricultural commodities including wheat, corn

Moving to compete with new-technology systems vendors, CSC introduced a Java EE-compliant version of its POINT IN policy administration solution for P&C insurers. Announced in late September at the company's Connect 2008 Conference in Lake Buena Vista, Fla., POINT IN

With its data center bursting at the seams in 2006, Indianapolis-based ILM Group ($56 million in premium income) sought to consolidate its Microsoft (Redmond, Wash.) server environment by joining the VMware (Palo Alto, Calif.) virtualization wave. "There were numerous inefficiencies,"

Five financial trade associations unveiled an industry survey which examined more than 400 firms' views of participation in the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). The survey was sent to members of Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), American Securitization

Sundaram Business Services ('SBS') and BNP Paribas Securities Services have signed a joint-venture agreement to provide securities services in India. The new joint-venture will be called Sundaram BNP Paribas Securities Services. The joint venture, which is 49 per cent owned

CorrectNet, Inc., a provider of information delivery and client reporting services for many of the world's largest investment management firms, has added ten new institutional clients and expanded support for eight global data centers to boost infrastructure for clients. The