Blog: To beat fraud, insurers have to tear down internal walls to future-proof their business
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The insurance industry continues to treat cyber attacks and fraud as two independent problems. However, Dennis Toomey, global director of counter fraud analytics and operations at BAE Systems, argues they are in fact one and the same – and until the sector treats them as such, it will always be playing catch-up.
Dennis Toomey, global director of counter fraud analytics and operations at BAE SystemsThe criminal threats facing insurers are sophisticated, global and ever growing
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