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White Papers
The dirty dozen: preventing common application-level hack attacks
Aug 2009
As organizations have grown increasingly dependent on online software, the risk of malicious attacks has also become far more serious. Such attacks can bring a business to a standstill, cost a...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
FLIPS: Hybrid Adaptive Intrusion Prevention
Jan 2009
Intrusion detection systems are fundamentally passive and fail-open. Because their primary task is classification, they do nothing to prevent an attack from succeeding. An Intrusion Prevention...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
Expiring Terrorism Insurance Act Threatens to Leave Businesses Exposed
Jun 2006
The federal government's agreement to back companies that offer terrorism insurance expires at the end of the year, bringing the prospect of sky-high premiums and scarce coverage for local...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Terror Insurance Lures a Few
Jun 2006
Bay Area companies are buying terrorism insurance in greater numbers than counterparts in some parts of the country - excluding hot spots such as New York City and Washington, D.C. - but sales are...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Insurance: Half U.S. Businesses Lack Terrorism Insurance
Jun 2006
The total insured-property losses from the September 11 terrorist attacks are expected to hit more than $40 billion, according to the Insurance Information Institute, a nonprofit organization...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Terrorist Attacks Put Reinsurance Lobbyists on Alert
Jun 2006
Terrorism seems to be on everyone's mind following the July 7 attack on the London underground. It is certainly on the mind of Massachusetts' insurance companies, which along with their national...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Insurance Companies Rank St. Louis Low Terrorism Risk
Jun 2006
When it comes to insurance loss estimates in the event of a potential terrorist attack, St. Louis ranks on the same level as major metropolitan areas such as Miami, Denver and Dallas. It also...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Targeted Trojans: The silent danger of a clever malware
Nov 2010
This paper will discuss the history and progression of the modern Trojan attack. It will explore the methodology used by hackers in selecting a target and developing a compelling attack and will...
Provided by Symantec
-
White Papers
Regulating The Market For Terrorism Insurance
Apr 2008
Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, interest in the impact of terrorism on the insurance industry has surged. Even with the catastrophic human losses and physical destruction, the attacks...
Provided by Northwestern University
-
White Papers
The Market for Terrorism Insurance: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Risk Financing Solutions
Feb 2008
When they occurred the 9/11 terrorist attacks constituted the most costly event ever in the history of insurance, raising the question of what are the most effective ways for a country to recover...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
-
White Papers
Government Support For The Terrorism Insurance Industry: Where Do We Go From Here?
Apr 2008
Federal government support for the terrorism insurance industry has a very brief history. The terrorist attack(s) on September 11, 2001, radically altered the way the U.S. insurance industry...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Protectivity Versus Productivity And Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence From Selected Countries
Oct 2008
This paper tries to cast light on the effects of terrorism on some macroeconomic variables at the international level. Using the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) investigate the effects of...
Provided by Ohio University
-
White Papers
Betting On Catastrophe: The Private Sector And Anti-Terrorism Spending For Physical Security
Dec 2007
The cost of protecting U.S. private sector critical infrastructure assets is estimated at $10 billion per year. This qualitative research examined the incentives and obstacles for the willing...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University
-
White Papers
Large-Scale Disasters And The Insurance Industry
Mar 2008
The author investigates the impact of the 20 largest - in terms of insured losses - man-made or natural disasters on various insurance industry stock indices. They show via an event study that...
Provided by University of Dortmund
-
White Papers
Government Support For Terrorism Insurance
Jun 2009
This paper examines the recent market for terrorism insurance, detailing the history and goals of the United States Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in all its iterations. Reinsurance,...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Insurance And Stability The Reform Of Insurance Regulation
Oct 2009
Risk pooling provides customers with cost-effective protection against the financial consequences of various perils, which would otherwise have required them to accumulate large amounts of...
Provided by Zurich
-
White Papers
Geopolitical Risk & Terrorism
Mar 2008
Geopolitical risk and terrorism are increasing concerns for organizations which operate or aspire to operate across regional boundaries. Moreover, businesses without such global aspirations would...
Provided by Arup
-
White Papers
War And Terrorism Insurance: Plans For Long-Term International Stability And Affordability
Mar 2009
Insurers in the most exposed classes of business, who were entitled to cancel cover for such risks at short notice, began to do so. Reinstatement, when available, was obtainable only for reduced...
Provided by International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics
-
White Papers
Introduction: Terrorism, Risk And The Global City
Aug 2009
After the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington the fortification and militarization of globally significant cities has proceeded at an unparalleled pace, particularly given the perceived threat...
Provided by Ashgate Publishing
-
White Papers
Counter Terrorism Risk Management
May 2010
The threat of terrorism throughout the world is rising. Extremist groups are global and may target 'Western' businesses anywhere in the world. They aim for sensational destruction and loss of...
Provided by Aon
-
White Papers
Center For Terrorism Risk Management Policy
Oct 2007
The paper tells here was supported by CTRMP as part of its larger research program focused on terrorism risk, insurance, and other economically focused issues related to terrorist threat....
Provided by RAND
-
White Papers
Managing Terrorism Risks
Nov 2008
Protecting employees and corporate assets is the responsibility of operating managers throughout any corporation. In most organizations, few people are fully cognizant of exposures such as...
Provided by Chubb
-
White Papers
Federal Legislation And The Insurance Industry: A Rising Tide
Nov 2010
The McCarran-Ferguson Act was a federal law passed by the U.S. Congress in response to the U.S. Supreme Court holding in the case of United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association, which...
Provided by Starphire Technologies
-
White Papers
Invisible Security: The Impact Of Counter-Terrorism On The Built Environment
Apr 2008
Since the dawn of urbanization, cities have provided rich pickings for bandits, petty criminals, protesters and terrorists, feeding off the city's economic, social and political wealth. To...
Provided by Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
-
White Papers
The Impact Of Crime On Business: A Model For Prevention, Detection & Remedy
Jun 2009
Since the nineteenth century, sociologists have studied the relationship between economic business cycles and increases in crime. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, crime may be a factor...
Provided by Academic and Business Research Institute
-
White Papers
Categorizing Horror: Marine Insurance Coverage And Terrorism
Feb 2008
The attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 resulted in the largest loss in the history of insurance. Whilst acts of terrorism are nothing new,...
Provided by PAUL MYBURGH
-
White Papers
Terrorism Threat Assessment And Management
Jul 2009
The dynamic adaptive nature of terrorism requires a systematic and methodical intelligent strategy for terrorism threat assessment and management. Unwitting weaknesses in approach and deficiencies...
Provided by Center Of Excellence-Defence Against Terrorism
-
White Papers
President's Working Group On Financial Markets: Terrorism Risk Insurance Analysis
Aug 2010
The Coalition to Insure against Terrorism ("CIAT") files these comments in response to a request by the President's Working Group on Financial Markets ("PWG"). CIAT is a broad coalition of...
Provided by CRE Finance Council
-
White Papers
Sentinel Security Life Insurance Company Agent Anti Money-Laundering Policy
Feb 2007
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools required intercepting and Obstruct Terrorism Act was enacted in order to better protect the financial services industry from...
Provided by Sentinel Security Life Insurance
-
White Papers
Terrorism Insurance Update: January 2008 (TRIPRA)
Jan 2008
With only five days left before the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act was set to expire on Dec. 31, 2007, President George W. Bush signed into law legislation that reauthorizes the federal backstop for...
Provided by William Gallagher Associates Insurance Brokers
-
White Papers
Are You Prepared for the Financial Impact of Retained Terrorism Losses? TRIEA Retention Terrorism Reinsurance Facility
Aug 2006
The need for a TRIEA Retention Terrorism Reinsurance Facility has never been more urgent. Though the federal government provides a backstop, the retained portion for carriers is climbing. Rating...
Provided by Towers Perrin
-
White Papers
Designing Institutions To Deal With Terrorism In The United States
Jan 2008
The explosion in the 21st century of terrorist activities by Islamic radicals in the United States, Europe and Asia requires reforming the institutions for domestic CounterTerrorism (CT) and new...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Terrorism And Business
Jul 2007
Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in politics and in rational choice analyses of terrorism. However, there are two strategies that are superior to deterrence. The...
Provided by University of Zurich
-
White Papers
The Effects Of Terrorist Activities On Foreign Direct Investment: Nonlinear Evidence
May 2011
In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and terrorist incidents that took place in Turkey for the period from 1991:12 to 2003:12. This research...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
BSMR: Byzantine-Resilient Secure Multicast Routing in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Mar 2007
The work discussed in this paper identifies vulnerabilities of on-demand multicast routing protocols for multi-hop wireless networks and discuss the challenges encountered in designing mechanisms...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
On the Detection of Signaling DoS Attacks on 3G Wireless Networks
Jan 2007
Third Generation (3G) wireless networks based on the CDMA2000 and UMTS standards are now increasingly being deployed throughout the world. Because of their complex signaling and relatively limited...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
TCP Flow Analysis for Defense Against Shrew DDoS Attacks
Mar 2007
The shrew or RoS attacks are low-rate DDoS attacks that degrade the QoS to end systems slowly but not to deny the services completely. These attacks are more difficult to detect than the flooding...
Provided by University of Southern California (Marshall)
-
Webcasts
When No Press is Good Press - July 2011
Jul 2011
Yesterday's approaches to combating malware are no longer sufficient. Already this year we've seen an extraordinary number of high-profile security breaches. Whether you're a small business or a...
Provided by Symantec
-
White Papers
LITEWORP: Detection and Isolation of the Wormhole Attack in Static Multihop Wireless Networks
Jun 2007
In multihop wireless systems, such as ad-hoc and sensor networks, the need for cooperation among nodes to relay each other's packets exposes them to a wide range of security attacks. A...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Flow-Cookies: Using Bandwidth Amplification to Defend Against DDoS Flooding Attacks
Jan 2008
Distributed Denial-of-Service flooding attacks against public web servers are increasingly common. Websites without the ability to over-provision or rely on a CDN are often overwhelmed by such...
Provided by Stanford University
-
Webcasts
When No Press is Good Press - July 2011
Jul 2011
Yesterday's approaches to combating malware are no longer sufficient. Already this year we've seen an extraordinary number of high-profile security breaches. Whether you're a small business or a...
Provided by Symantec
-
White Papers
The Effects Of Terrorist Activities On Foreign Direct Investment: Nonlinear Evidence
May 2011
In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and terrorist incidents that took place in Turkey for the period from 1991:12 to 2003:12. This research...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
-
White Papers
Terrorism And Business
Jul 2007
Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in politics and in rational choice analyses of terrorism. However, there are two strategies that are superior to deterrence. The...
Provided by University of Zurich
-
White Papers
Designing Institutions To Deal With Terrorism In The United States
Jan 2008
The explosion in the 21st century of terrorist activities by Islamic radicals in the United States, Europe and Asia requires reforming the institutions for domestic CounterTerrorism (CT) and new...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
-
White Papers
Terrorism Insurance Update: January 2008 (TRIPRA)
Jan 2008
With only five days left before the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act was set to expire on Dec. 31, 2007, President George W. Bush signed into law legislation that reauthorizes the federal backstop for...
Provided by William Gallagher Associates Insurance Brokers
-
White Papers
Sentinel Security Life Insurance Company Agent Anti Money-Laundering Policy
Feb 2007
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools required intercepting and Obstruct Terrorism Act was enacted in order to better protect the financial services industry from...
Provided by Sentinel Security Life Insurance
-
White Papers
President's Working Group On Financial Markets: Terrorism Risk Insurance Analysis
Aug 2010
The Coalition to Insure against Terrorism ("CIAT") files these comments in response to a request by the President's Working Group on Financial Markets ("PWG"). CIAT is a broad coalition of...
Provided by CRE Finance Council
-
White Papers
Terrorism Threat Assessment And Management
Jul 2009
The dynamic adaptive nature of terrorism requires a systematic and methodical intelligent strategy for terrorism threat assessment and management. Unwitting weaknesses in approach and deficiencies...
Provided by Center Of Excellence-Defence Against Terrorism
-
White Papers
Categorizing Horror: Marine Insurance Coverage And Terrorism
Feb 2008
The attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 resulted in the largest loss in the history of insurance. Whilst acts of terrorism are nothing new,...
Provided by PAUL MYBURGH
-
White Papers
The Impact Of Crime On Business: A Model For Prevention, Detection & Remedy
Jun 2009
Since the nineteenth century, sociologists have studied the relationship between economic business cycles and increases in crime. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, crime may be a factor...
Provided by Academic and Business Research Institute
-
White Papers
Invisible Security: The Impact Of Counter-Terrorism On The Built Environment
Apr 2008
Since the dawn of urbanization, cities have provided rich pickings for bandits, petty criminals, protesters and terrorists, feeding off the city's economic, social and political wealth. To...
Provided by Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
-
White Papers
Federal Legislation And The Insurance Industry: A Rising Tide
Nov 2010
The McCarran-Ferguson Act was a federal law passed by the U.S. Congress in response to the U.S. Supreme Court holding in the case of United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association, which...
Provided by Starphire Technologies
-
White Papers
Managing Terrorism Risks
Nov 2008
Protecting employees and corporate assets is the responsibility of operating managers throughout any corporation. In most organizations, few people are fully cognizant of exposures such as...
Provided by Chubb
-
White Papers
Center For Terrorism Risk Management Policy
Oct 2007
The paper tells here was supported by CTRMP as part of its larger research program focused on terrorism risk, insurance, and other economically focused issues related to terrorist threat....
Provided by RAND
-
White Papers
Counter Terrorism Risk Management
May 2010
The threat of terrorism throughout the world is rising. Extremist groups are global and may target 'Western' businesses anywhere in the world. They aim for sensational destruction and loss of...
Provided by Aon
-
White Papers
Introduction: Terrorism, Risk And The Global City
Aug 2009
After the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington the fortification and militarization of globally significant cities has proceeded at an unparalleled pace, particularly given the perceived threat...
Provided by Ashgate Publishing
-
White Papers
War And Terrorism Insurance: Plans For Long-Term International Stability And Affordability
Mar 2009
Insurers in the most exposed classes of business, who were entitled to cancel cover for such risks at short notice, began to do so. Reinstatement, when available, was obtainable only for reduced...
Provided by International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics
-
White Papers
Geopolitical Risk & Terrorism
Mar 2008
Geopolitical risk and terrorism are increasing concerns for organizations which operate or aspire to operate across regional boundaries. Moreover, businesses without such global aspirations would...
Provided by Arup
-
White Papers
Insurance And Stability The Reform Of Insurance Regulation
Oct 2009
Risk pooling provides customers with cost-effective protection against the financial consequences of various perils, which would otherwise have required them to accumulate large amounts of...
Provided by Zurich
-
White Papers
Government Support For Terrorism Insurance
Jun 2009
This paper examines the recent market for terrorism insurance, detailing the history and goals of the United States Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in all its iterations. Reinsurance,...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Large-Scale Disasters And The Insurance Industry
Mar 2008
The author investigates the impact of the 20 largest - in terms of insured losses - man-made or natural disasters on various insurance industry stock indices. They show via an event study that...
Provided by University of Dortmund
-
White Papers
Betting On Catastrophe: The Private Sector And Anti-Terrorism Spending For Physical Security
Dec 2007
The cost of protecting U.S. private sector critical infrastructure assets is estimated at $10 billion per year. This qualitative research examined the incentives and obstacles for the willing...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University
-
White Papers
Protectivity Versus Productivity And Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence From Selected Countries
Oct 2008
This paper tries to cast light on the effects of terrorism on some macroeconomic variables at the international level. Using the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) investigate the effects of...
Provided by Ohio University
-
White Papers
Government Support For The Terrorism Insurance Industry: Where Do We Go From Here?
Apr 2008
Federal government support for the terrorism insurance industry has a very brief history. The terrorist attack(s) on September 11, 2001, radically altered the way the U.S. insurance industry...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
The Market for Terrorism Insurance: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Risk Financing Solutions
Feb 2008
When they occurred the 9/11 terrorist attacks constituted the most costly event ever in the history of insurance, raising the question of what are the most effective ways for a country to recover...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
-
White Papers
Regulating The Market For Terrorism Insurance
Apr 2008
Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, interest in the impact of terrorism on the insurance industry has surged. Even with the catastrophic human losses and physical destruction, the attacks...
Provided by Northwestern University
-
White Papers
Targeted Trojans: The silent danger of a clever malware
Nov 2010
This paper will discuss the history and progression of the modern Trojan attack. It will explore the methodology used by hackers in selecting a target and developing a compelling attack and will...
Provided by Symantec
-
White Papers
FLIPS: Hybrid Adaptive Intrusion Prevention
Jan 2009
Intrusion detection systems are fundamentally passive and fail-open. Because their primary task is classification, they do nothing to prevent an attack from succeeding. An Intrusion Prevention...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
The dirty dozen: preventing common application-level hack attacks
Aug 2009
As organizations have grown increasingly dependent on online software, the risk of malicious attacks has also become far more serious. Such attacks can bring a business to a standstill, cost a...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
Active Internet Traffic Filtering: Real-Time Response to Denial-of-Service Attacks
Jan 2008
This paper describes Active Internet Traffic Filtering (AITF), a mechanism for blocking highly Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks are an acute contemporary problem, with...
Provided by Stanford University
-
White Papers
Flow-Cookies: Using Bandwidth Amplification to Defend Against DDoS Flooding Attacks
Jan 2008
Distributed Denial-of-Service flooding attacks against public web servers are increasingly common. Websites without the ability to over-provision or rely on a CDN are often overwhelmed by such...
Provided by Stanford University
-
White Papers
LITEWORP: Detection and Isolation of the Wormhole Attack in Static Multihop Wireless Networks
Jun 2007
In multihop wireless systems, such as ad-hoc and sensor networks, the need for cooperation among nodes to relay each other's packets exposes them to a wide range of security attacks. A...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
TCP Flow Analysis for Defense Against Shrew DDoS Attacks
Mar 2007
The shrew or RoS attacks are low-rate DDoS attacks that degrade the QoS to end systems slowly but not to deny the services completely. These attacks are more difficult to detect than the flooding...
Provided by University of Southern California (Marshall)
-
White Papers
On the Detection of Signaling DoS Attacks on 3G Wireless Networks
Jan 2007
Third Generation (3G) wireless networks based on the CDMA2000 and UMTS standards are now increasingly being deployed throughout the world. Because of their complex signaling and relatively limited...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
BSMR: Byzantine-Resilient Secure Multicast Routing in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Mar 2007
The work discussed in this paper identifies vulnerabilities of on-demand multicast routing protocols for multi-hop wireless networks and discuss the challenges encountered in designing mechanisms...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
-
White Papers
Are You Prepared for the Financial Impact of Retained Terrorism Losses? TRIEA Retention Terrorism Reinsurance Facility
Aug 2006
The need for a TRIEA Retention Terrorism Reinsurance Facility has never been more urgent. Though the federal government provides a backstop, the retained portion for carriers is climbing. Rating...
Provided by Towers Perrin
-
White Papers
Insurance Companies Rank St. Louis Low Terrorism Risk
Jun 2006
When it comes to insurance loss estimates in the event of a potential terrorist attack, St. Louis ranks on the same level as major metropolitan areas such as Miami, Denver and Dallas. It also...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Terrorist Attacks Put Reinsurance Lobbyists on Alert
Jun 2006
Terrorism seems to be on everyone's mind following the July 7 attack on the London underground. It is certainly on the mind of Massachusetts' insurance companies, which along with their national...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Insurance: Half U.S. Businesses Lack Terrorism Insurance
Jun 2006
The total insured-property losses from the September 11 terrorist attacks are expected to hit more than $40 billion, according to the Insurance Information Institute, a nonprofit organization...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Terror Insurance Lures a Few
Jun 2006
Bay Area companies are buying terrorism insurance in greater numbers than counterparts in some parts of the country - excluding hot spots such as New York City and Washington, D.C. - but sales are...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
Webcasts
When No Press is Good Press - July 2011
Jul 2011
Yesterday's approaches to combating malware are no longer sufficient. Already this year we've seen an extraordinary number of high-profile security breaches. Whether you're a small business or a...
Provided by Symantec
-
White Papers
The dirty dozen: preventing common application-level hack attacks
Aug 2009
As organizations have grown increasingly dependent on online software, the risk of malicious attacks has also become far more serious. Such attacks can bring a business to a standstill, cost a...
Provided by IBM
-
White Papers
FLIPS: Hybrid Adaptive Intrusion Prevention
Jan 2009
Intrusion detection systems are fundamentally passive and fail-open. Because their primary task is classification, they do nothing to prevent an attack from succeeding. An Intrusion Prevention...
Provided by Columbia University
-
White Papers
Expiring Terrorism Insurance Act Threatens to Leave Businesses Exposed
Jun 2006
The federal government's agreement to back companies that offer terrorism insurance expires at the end of the year, bringing the prospect of sky-high premiums and scarce coverage for local...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Terror Insurance Lures a Few
Jun 2006
Bay Area companies are buying terrorism insurance in greater numbers than counterparts in some parts of the country - excluding hot spots such as New York City and Washington, D.C. - but sales are...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Insurance: Half U.S. Businesses Lack Terrorism Insurance
Jun 2006
The total insured-property losses from the September 11 terrorist attacks are expected to hit more than $40 billion, according to the Insurance Information Institute, a nonprofit organization...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Terrorist Attacks Put Reinsurance Lobbyists on Alert
Jun 2006
Terrorism seems to be on everyone's mind following the July 7 attack on the London underground. It is certainly on the mind of Massachusetts' insurance companies, which along with their national...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Insurance Companies Rank St. Louis Low Terrorism Risk
Jun 2006
When it comes to insurance loss estimates in the event of a potential terrorist attack, St. Louis ranks on the same level as major metropolitan areas such as Miami, Denver and Dallas. It also...
Provided by American City Business Journals
-
White Papers
Targeted Trojans: The silent danger of a clever malware
Nov 2010
This paper will discuss the history and progression of the modern Trojan attack. It will explore the methodology used by hackers in selecting a target and developing a compelling attack and will...
Provided by Symantec
-
White Papers
Regulating The Market For Terrorism Insurance
Apr 2008
Since the terrorist attacks of 9/11, interest in the impact of terrorism on the insurance industry has surged. Even with the catastrophic human losses and physical destruction, the attacks...
Provided by Northwestern University
-
White Papers
The Market for Terrorism Insurance: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Risk Financing Solutions
Feb 2008
When they occurred the 9/11 terrorist attacks constituted the most costly event ever in the history of insurance, raising the question of what are the most effective ways for a country to recover...
Provided by University of Pennsylvania
-
White Papers
Government Support For The Terrorism Insurance Industry: Where Do We Go From Here?
Apr 2008
Federal government support for the terrorism insurance industry has a very brief history. The terrorist attack(s) on September 11, 2001, radically altered the way the U.S. insurance industry...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Protectivity Versus Productivity And Economic Growth: Empirical Evidence From Selected Countries
Oct 2008
This paper tries to cast light on the effects of terrorism on some macroeconomic variables at the international level. Using the Generalized Method of Moment (GMM) investigate the effects of...
Provided by Ohio University
-
White Papers
Betting On Catastrophe: The Private Sector And Anti-Terrorism Spending For Physical Security
Dec 2007
The cost of protecting U.S. private sector critical infrastructure assets is estimated at $10 billion per year. This qualitative research examined the incentives and obstacles for the willing...
Provided by Case Western Reserve University
-
White Papers
Large-Scale Disasters And The Insurance Industry
Mar 2008
The author investigates the impact of the 20 largest - in terms of insured losses - man-made or natural disasters on various insurance industry stock indices. They show via an event study that...
Provided by University of Dortmund
-
White Papers
Government Support For Terrorism Insurance
Jun 2009
This paper examines the recent market for terrorism insurance, detailing the history and goals of the United States Terrorism Risk Insurance Act (TRIA) in all its iterations. Reinsurance,...
Provided by Santa Clara University
-
White Papers
Insurance And Stability The Reform Of Insurance Regulation
Oct 2009
Risk pooling provides customers with cost-effective protection against the financial consequences of various perils, which would otherwise have required them to accumulate large amounts of...
Provided by Zurich
-
White Papers
Geopolitical Risk & Terrorism
Mar 2008
Geopolitical risk and terrorism are increasing concerns for organizations which operate or aspire to operate across regional boundaries. Moreover, businesses without such global aspirations would...
Provided by Arup
-
White Papers
War And Terrorism Insurance: Plans For Long-Term International Stability And Affordability
Mar 2009
Insurers in the most exposed classes of business, who were entitled to cancel cover for such risks at short notice, began to do so. Reinstatement, when available, was obtainable only for reduced...
Provided by International Association for the Study of Insurance Economics
-
White Papers
Introduction: Terrorism, Risk And The Global City
Aug 2009
After the 9/11 attacks on New York and Washington the fortification and militarization of globally significant cities has proceeded at an unparalleled pace, particularly given the perceived threat...
Provided by Ashgate Publishing
-
White Papers
Counter Terrorism Risk Management
May 2010
The threat of terrorism throughout the world is rising. Extremist groups are global and may target 'Western' businesses anywhere in the world. They aim for sensational destruction and loss of...
Provided by Aon
-
White Papers
Center For Terrorism Risk Management Policy
Oct 2007
The paper tells here was supported by CTRMP as part of its larger research program focused on terrorism risk, insurance, and other economically focused issues related to terrorist threat....
Provided by RAND
-
White Papers
Managing Terrorism Risks
Nov 2008
Protecting employees and corporate assets is the responsibility of operating managers throughout any corporation. In most organizations, few people are fully cognizant of exposures such as...
Provided by Chubb
-
White Papers
Federal Legislation And The Insurance Industry: A Rising Tide
Nov 2010
The McCarran-Ferguson Act was a federal law passed by the U.S. Congress in response to the U.S. Supreme Court holding in the case of United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association, which...
Provided by Starphire Technologies
-
White Papers
Invisible Security: The Impact Of Counter-Terrorism On The Built Environment
Apr 2008
Since the dawn of urbanization, cities have provided rich pickings for bandits, petty criminals, protesters and terrorists, feeding off the city's economic, social and political wealth. To...
Provided by Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment
-
White Papers
The Impact Of Crime On Business: A Model For Prevention, Detection & Remedy
Jun 2009
Since the nineteenth century, sociologists have studied the relationship between economic business cycles and increases in crime. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, crime may be a factor...
Provided by Academic and Business Research Institute
-
White Papers
Categorizing Horror: Marine Insurance Coverage And Terrorism
Feb 2008
The attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001 resulted in the largest loss in the history of insurance. Whilst acts of terrorism are nothing new,...
Provided by PAUL MYBURGH
-
White Papers
Terrorism Threat Assessment And Management
Jul 2009
The dynamic adaptive nature of terrorism requires a systematic and methodical intelligent strategy for terrorism threat assessment and management. Unwitting weaknesses in approach and deficiencies...
Provided by Center Of Excellence-Defence Against Terrorism
-
White Papers
President's Working Group On Financial Markets: Terrorism Risk Insurance Analysis
Aug 2010
The Coalition to Insure against Terrorism ("CIAT") files these comments in response to a request by the President's Working Group on Financial Markets ("PWG"). CIAT is a broad coalition of...
Provided by CRE Finance Council
-
White Papers
Sentinel Security Life Insurance Company Agent Anti Money-Laundering Policy
Feb 2007
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools required intercepting and Obstruct Terrorism Act was enacted in order to better protect the financial services industry from...
Provided by Sentinel Security Life Insurance
-
White Papers
Terrorism Insurance Update: January 2008 (TRIPRA)
Jan 2008
With only five days left before the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act was set to expire on Dec. 31, 2007, President George W. Bush signed into law legislation that reauthorizes the federal backstop for...
Provided by William Gallagher Associates Insurance Brokers
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White Papers
Are You Prepared for the Financial Impact of Retained Terrorism Losses? TRIEA Retention Terrorism Reinsurance Facility
Aug 2006
The need for a TRIEA Retention Terrorism Reinsurance Facility has never been more urgent. Though the federal government provides a backstop, the retained portion for carriers is climbing. Rating...
Provided by Towers Perrin
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White Papers
Designing Institutions To Deal With Terrorism In The United States
Jan 2008
The explosion in the 21st century of terrorist activities by Islamic radicals in the United States, Europe and Asia requires reforming the institutions for domestic CounterTerrorism (CT) and new...
Provided by National Bureau of Economic Research
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White Papers
Terrorism And Business
Jul 2007
Deterrence has been a crucial element in fighting terrorism, both in politics and in rational choice analyses of terrorism. However, there are two strategies that are superior to deterrence. The...
Provided by University of Zurich
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White Papers
The Effects Of Terrorist Activities On Foreign Direct Investment: Nonlinear Evidence
May 2011
In this paper, the authors examine the relationship between Foreign Direct Investment and terrorist incidents that took place in Turkey for the period from 1991:12 to 2003:12. This research...
Provided by Munich Personal Repec Archive
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White Papers
BSMR: Byzantine-Resilient Secure Multicast Routing in Multi-Hop Wireless Networks
Mar 2007
The work discussed in this paper identifies vulnerabilities of on-demand multicast routing protocols for multi-hop wireless networks and discuss the challenges encountered in designing mechanisms...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
On the Detection of Signaling DoS Attacks on 3G Wireless Networks
Jan 2007
Third Generation (3G) wireless networks based on the CDMA2000 and UMTS standards are now increasingly being deployed throughout the world. Because of their complex signaling and relatively limited...
Provided by Columbia University
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White Papers
TCP Flow Analysis for Defense Against Shrew DDoS Attacks
Mar 2007
The shrew or RoS attacks are low-rate DDoS attacks that degrade the QoS to end systems slowly but not to deny the services completely. These attacks are more difficult to detect than the flooding...
Provided by University of Southern California (Marshall)
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White Papers
LITEWORP: Detection and Isolation of the Wormhole Attack in Static Multihop Wireless Networks
Jun 2007
In multihop wireless systems, such as ad-hoc and sensor networks, the need for cooperation among nodes to relay each other's packets exposes them to a wide range of security attacks. A...
Provided by Purdue University (Krannert)
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White Papers
Flow-Cookies: Using Bandwidth Amplification to Defend Against DDoS Flooding Attacks
Jan 2008
Distributed Denial-of-Service flooding attacks against public web servers are increasingly common. Websites without the ability to over-provision or rely on a CDN are often overwhelmed by such...
Provided by Stanford University
