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2001
Conference Highlights
Learning to Risk
Manage Your Client's Internet
and Technology Risks & Exposures
May 1-3, 2001
Radisson Hotel O'Hare Chicago,
Illinois
Workshop Information
AIG netAdvantage
Stuart
Kohn
Stuart will discuss
AIG’s netAdvantage Suite of Internet and network security
liability insurance coverages and how they
are designed to meet the needs of IT
risk managers.
Completing a Cyber
Application Michael
Simms
Don’t let the
application become a major stumbling block in closing your
Cyber Insurance sale. Michael will explain
how to properly complete the application
and will help you understand what the markets are requiring
and why.
Computer Vulnerabilities
and Hacking David
French
David will review
various computer and network vulnerabilities present in systems
and applications used by virtually all corporations doing business
on the Internet. He will explore the most
common vulnerabilities that allow potential
intruders to gain access to a company’s internal network and sensitive
data, and take a detailed look at the tools
and techniques used to find these vulnerabilities.
In addition, David will outline a number of precautions and
measures companies can take to help prevent Internet connected
systems and internal networks from being compromised
by potential intruders.
Cyber Business
Insurance Policies; Critical Coverage Provisions Dick
Clarke
Dick will compare
the policies currently available in the marketplace against
his list of 10 critical areas of insurance.
He will also tell you why traditional business
insurance doesn’t cover the named perils specified in specialized
cyber business insurance policies.
Dealing with Internet
Security, Threats and Protection Scott
Charney
This new information
age has made us increasingly dependent on computers, networks, and
the information they contain. Yet each week we hear of new
attacks on the confidentiality, integrity and availability of computer
systems, from economic espionage to distributed
denial of service attacks.
Each poses a
serious threat to ebusinesses but, like all other business risks,
these too are capable of being intelligently
managed. Scott Charney’s presentation will
detail the threats, and discuss effective steps companies can
take to protect their systems.
The e-Risk ™ Advantage Product Brian
Brown
The e-Risk™ Protection
Program from The Fidelity and Deposit Companies is
an innovative, comprehensive solution that helps you assess all
forms of electronic risk, from doing
business on the Internet to data storage, and provides
the protection a company needs to cover its e-risks. F&D is
rated
A+ by A.M. Best
as part of the Zurich U.S. pool. E-Risk provides protection
for Loss of Business Income Coverage, Public
Relations Coverage, Development Cost
Coverage for Loss of Intellectual Property (proprietary software
or information), Impairment or Interruption
of Service Liability Coverage
(even providing
coverage if service is impaired or interrupted due to errors
made by authorized personnel) and Electronic Publishing Liability.
How to Research
a Prospect on the Net Jeff
Sartin
Jeff will give
you insight on the tools and resources available to research
potential customers on the Internet. You will
learn how to access general business
information about the prospect as well as how to identify technical
information about how they are doing business
on the web.
Information Security
Technology Solutions Chris Ellerman
Chris is a recognized
expert in the design and implementation of information security
systems. This workshop will cover the different categories of
security technologies and trends in the market
today. An in depth discussion will
show how to use these technologies to secure information systems,
while enabling businesses to increase revenue
and reduce costs.
Information Security
Risks and Protective Measures Abe
Barkin
Abe will explain
why information security is needed and why every business
initiative must address the new business fundamentals
of confidentiality, integrity and availability.
Maintaining trust and credibility are critical success factors.
Many security issues will be discussed, including disgruntled employees,
organized hacking, business competitors, political
groups, and foreign governments.
An Informed Approach
to Insuring IT Businesses Scott
Schleicher
Scott Schleicher,
VP of Sales at ISG International’s CCBsure Insurance Pro-gram,
explains what to look for when placing coverage
for Information Technology companies.
He will discuss the advantages of CCBsure’s unique approach
to insuring IT businesses, coverage elements, underwriting criteria
and pricing guidelines.
Marketing, Publicizing&Promoting
YourITInsurancePractice Nancy
Flynn
According to
noted ePolicy expert and veteran publicist Nancy Flynn, it is
not difficult to grow an Internet & Technology
Insurance Practice. But be-fore you
can sell IT Insurance, you must educate clients and prospects about
the scary—and potentially costly—world of
CyberSpace. Learn how to put eDisaster
stories to work as super-effective selling tools. Because IT Insurance
is a new and relatively unknown product, you
have a tremendous opportunity to establish
yourself as the IT Insurance specialist in your market...but
you must act now! Learn
the secrets of establishing brand and taking
control of a market. Spread the Word—FREE. Pitch your story properly,
and you’ll have the media coming to you repeatedly
for news about IT Insurance.
Why spend money
advertising when you can spread the word through free
publicity, while simultaneously positioning your firm as the market’s
leading source of credible and reliable
IT Insurance information.
MediaPro
Product Bernie Kurtzweil
Bernie will discuss
the Media Pro Product and its coverages and how they are
designed to meet the needs of IT risk managers.
No Business Is
Safe from eRisks Nancy
Flynn
Your ability
to offer more than IT Insurance, your ability to deliver ePolicy
guidance and eSecurity tips, can help distinguish
you in the marketplace, build your
consulting practice, and sell IT insurance products. Don’t miss
this opportunity to learn from Nancy Flynn,
one of the nation’s leading authoritieson ePolicy and eCommunication.
Learn the basics of eMail, Internet,
and Software Policy development and implementation—and how
you can market ePolicies to your clients as
a value-added service. Learnhow employers can reduce
the risk of sexual harassment and racial discrimination lawsuits
simply by controlling eMail content—and how you can leverage
this advice to sell EPLI insurance. Learn the basics of eRisk management
and computer security—and enhance your credibility
and comfort level on sales calls.
Risk Managing Technology
Exposures Susan Reppetto
Learn to identify
and analyze risks and exposures,including first, and third-party,
internal and external, products and their
limits available. Susan will also review
and discuss the marketing process and different client exit strategies
and how they will impact a Risk Management
Program (including pre-IPO planning). Learn
about the "life cycle" of a Technology Company as it pertains
to the Risk Management Program.
Shortening the
Sales Cycle Lawrence E. Harb
Are you quoting
more business than you are selling? Everyone is anxious to
learn how to shorten the sales cycle. This
session will show you who the buyers are
and who the real decision makers are. In addition, once you understand
the sales cycle, then you can learn how to
shorten it to your advantage.
St. Paul Technology
Specialty Insurance Products Jonathan
Brod Farber
Jon will explain
the coverage features, appetite and underwriting criteria
for St Paul’s Technology Specialty Insurance
Products. Products to be discussed include
VisionPak: Risk Solutions For Emerging Hi-tech Companies.
Jon will also review packaging of property
and Liability Coverages with access to Specialty Coverages and risk
management advice over the internet; Cybertech+,
which combines Errors and Omissions and Media Liability; Premier
Computer Network Security Protection (Networker),
which covers Business Interruption
and Extra Expense due to denial of services, Computer Systems
Fraud, Telecommunications Theft, Dependent Properties, Post
Loss Security, Public Relations Crisis Management,
Surrender and Ransom and Rewards. Errors
And Omissions: Coverage for financial loss to third party
due to error, and Media Liability: Coverage
for the unintended inclusion of intellectual
property of others in the Insured’s products or services or in the
products or services of the Insured’s customers.
Why You
Need Cyber Insurance Stuart
Kohn
Stuart will give
a general overview of the insurance risks posed by the new
cyber economy. He will tell you why traditional
insurance isn’t enough to cover these
risks, and will present some of the solutions the insurance industry
has developed to meet and manage those risks.
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