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Cyber Insecurity: A Boon for Insurers

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We’ve written plenty about data breaches. Within the last year, valuable data has been stolen from Target , the University of Maryland at College Park , the California Department of Motor Vehicles , and the Internal Revenue Service. Do you have good cyber insurance? By ShannonPerry.

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Tech Moves: Seattle tech vet joins insurance tech startup; Cyemptive Technologies adds exec

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Former Microsoft and Amazon Alexa engineering leader Sonny Patel was named CTO and CPO of insurance tech startup Socotra. Socotra Photo) — Sonny Patel was hired by San Francisco-based insurance tech startup Socotra as CTO and CPO. Founded in 2015, Socotra sells cloud-based tools for insurance tech companies.

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This AI understands doctor’s notes: Truveta’s new model finds meaning in messy healthcare data

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Truveta chief technology officer Jay Nanduri (left) and CEO Terry Myerson. Truveta Photos) Healthcare data holds great potential to improve medicine, but mining it is not easy. The model “normalizes” the messy data, so that texts like “Acute COVID-19″ and “COVID19 _ acute infection” mean the same thing.

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Rackspace’s CTO takes a broad view of sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Srini Koushik has been passionate about the environment for 35 years and now, as a board member of the nonprofit SustainableIT.org and CTO of cloud services provider Rackspace Technology, he wants to help enterprises achieve sustainability in the cloud.

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New CIO appointments in India, 2022

CIO Business Intelligence

He has assisted the top management in planning IT strategies and leveraging technologies for rationalizing manpower, enhancing organizational productivity, and improving the efficiency of operations. Amit Goel joins Blox as CTO. Real estate buying platform Blox has appointed Amit Goel as its chief technology officer, based in Mumbai.

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How to leverage data to create a more intelligent organization

CIO Business Intelligence

Can you deliver meaningful results on a data project within one or two quarters? That’s a requirement for nearly any initiative undertaken by Petco Chief Data and Analytics Officer Rakesh Srinivasan, who invests the talent and resources to achieve results quickly.

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The rise of the chief transformation officer

CIO Business Intelligence

Yet unlike his peers, Wiedenbeck’s dual roles — the top technology executive as well as the transformation lead at Ameritas — are often at odds. As chief technology officer, Wiedenbeck is driving automation and IT modernization to reduce complexity and technical debt.