Remote workers: Greater flexibility, greater risk
With simple passwords more vulnerable than ever, a growing number of CUs are deploying multifactor authentication techniques to bolster security.
Data and information management
Benefits Think Insurers must take the lead on cyber protection in digitalization
Sometimes, in an attempt to gather data or introduce simplicity using a technology solution, businesses and brokers can inadvertently expose themselves to elevated levels of cyber risk.
Jeff Canfield
Argo Group
The human side of tech: Investing in tools that better the employee
Companies may need to rethink their tech strategy if they want to remain competitive, one expert says.
Benefits Think Don’t let your employees jeopardize your trade secrets
Courts place the burden on employers to use reasonable measures to protect their proprietary information.
Jonathan Michael Thomas
Foley & Lardner LLP
Benefits Think New data strategies for today’s benefit managers
Self-funded clients require new standards in data warehousing and analytics to support next generation healthcare strategies.
Ryan Olmstead
Catalyst for Payment Reform
Benefits Think New data strategies for today’s benefit managers
Self-funded employers require new standards in data warehousing and analytics to support next generation healthcare strategies.
Ryan Olmstead
Catalyst for Payment Reform
Benefits Think Tackling the technology talent gap and re-skilling at scale
Digital technologies play an important role in helping to curate knowledge, enable virtual collaboration and uncover what behaviors enable employees to learn faster and more effectively.
Gianni Giacomelli
Genpact
14 top paying big data jobs
Software architects, data warehouse architects and data scientists lead the pack for top salaries among the professionals working on big data projects.
Nearly three-quarters of firms now victims of email-based cyber attacks
The most common effects cited were loss of employee productivity, downtime and business disruption, and damage to the reputation of the IT team.
Data breaches are putting client data at risk. Here’s what advisers can do
Independent brokerages and agencies are “low-hanging fruit” for cybercriminals, one expert says.
Shared service centers play increasingly strategic role for many companies
Emerging technologies such as cloud, robotic process automation and single-instance enterprise resource planning, are putting SSCs at the forefront of enterprise transformation.
14 top paying big data jobs
Software architects, data warehouse architects and data scientists lead the pack for top salaries among the professionals working on big data projects.
Skills gap, confusion holding back AI projects
Artificial intelligence is hailed for its ability to improve internal processes, but opportunities to use the technologies have been slow to take hold.
White Paper The next chapter of enterprise analytics — and how payers can prepare
The next chapter of enterprise analytics — and how payers can prepare
Benefits Think Concerned about cybersecurity? Here’s how to protect 401(k) plans
Consolidating retirement accounts using auto-portability can protect data.
Spencer Williams
Portability Services Network and Retirement Clearinghouse
Benefits Think Concerned about cybersecurity? Here’s how to protect 401(k) plans
Consolidating retirement accounts using auto-portability can protect data.
Spencer Williams
Portability Services Network and Retirement Clearinghouse
Workers are going mobile. Their access to analytics needs to follow
The business world is increasingly mobile, and if organizations don’t provide easy access to data analytics capabilities for mobile users, they might be missing out on huge opportunities.
Benefits Think Why humans still hold the advantage in decision automation
While machines can and will magnify our thinking and apply it to data faster and more accurately than we can, they still can’t think for us.
Chuck Densinger
Elicit
Benefits Think Is artificial intelligence sexist and racist?
When tech tools rely on data that is inaccurate or biased, they can inadvertently discriminate against women or minorities.
Jonathan Michael Thomas
Foley & Lardner LLP
Overcoming cultural fears remains top challenge with AI adoption
To take full advantage of AI’s opportunities, employers must understand and overcome lingering doubts from their employees.