

Are your smart devices making your home safer? Insurers aren't convinced.
They may give you some peace of mind, but is that how they make your insurers feel? It turns out that insurance firms aren’t quite so convinced of the value of your smart home safety gadgets. As per a recent Wall Street Journal report, despite the burgeoning popularity of connected devices like smart security cameras and smoke detectors, insurance agencies aren’t convinced that these homes are also safer. In fact, the Journal reports, “The average cost of insuring a home was


Cyber Risk Meets Its Match
Since 2013, the U.S. Intelligence Community’s annual worldwide threat assessment to Congress has highlighted cybersecurity as the top national security threat. In September 2015, the Director of National Intelligence, James Clapper, testified that “cyber threat cannot be eliminated; rather, cyber risk must be managed.” But how is a nation—let alone any company targeted by hackers—supposed to manage this pervasive risk when there has traditionally been no mechanism to reliably