CNA Blog— From the Experts

Regardless of where your operations are located, it’s important to plan for multiple loss scenarios in preparation for the upcoming hurricane season. Here are four perspectives to consider for this season.

Risk managers play a critical role in helping to evaluate COVID-related risk exposures and plan for the recovery process.

It’s critical that companies know how to identify social engineering fraud – and how to prevent this growing threat from affecting their business.

COVID-19 has presented many new challenges to law firms, from shelter-in-place orders to temporary closures to a remote workforce. Law firms must remember the fiduciary duties owed to clients and their ethical duties as defined by their jurisdiction’s rules of professional conduct.

Even when excellent nursing care is provided, patient comorbidities or system failures may result in an inadequate patient outcome. Understanding the conditions that lead to a claim help nurses to develop techniques to mitigate risk and minimize the potential for litigation.

In this post, we’ll discuss recent changes we’ve seen in the tools, tactics and procedures used by ransomware attackers, and share new information on detection avoidance, decryption tools and industries that may face the highest risk.

According to the American Bar Association’s 2019 Profile of the Legal Profession, almost 75 percent of lawyers were working remotely at least some of the time. As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to shape how we work and legal technology grows more accessible, one should only expect this percentage to rise.

Management liability exposures are a major blind spot for many private companies and nonprofits – one that can place an entire organization at risk.

Opening a door by using a retinal scan or clocking into work using a fingerprint scan was once the stuff of science fiction. Yet today, biometric technology is a part of everyday life, from enabling us to open our cell phones, to scanning a fingerprint on a biometric timeclock, to using a retina scan to gain access to a baseball stadium.

More than ever before, companies of all sizes are allowing employees to work remotely. Unfortunately, some organizations are not fully prepared for this sudden change to a remote workforce. Telecommuting can potentially put your company at increased risk of a cyberattack.