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Risk managers worry about cybersecurity in self-driving cars

  Bloomberg reports that cybersecurity "is the biggest concern for companies evaluating risk in the nascent self-driving vehicle industry, according to a survey conducted by Munich Re.'' The  reinsurer found that "55 percent of corporate risk managers surveyed...

Preparations begin for Japanese emperor’s abdication

  Emperor Akihito. The Japanese government has begun work to revise the law governing the imperial family system  to permit an emperor to abdicate. Emperor Akihito wants to abdicate, government sources have said. He has been treated for prostate cancer and heart...

Expert talks about U.S.-Chinese cyber issues

  Here's a Wall Street Journal interview with  cyberspace expert Tim Maurer on the future of Chinese-U.S. cybersecurity relations and Beijing's ambitions for managing the Internet. He says data-stealing is his greatest fear for the Internet: "The vast majority of...

BGF’s John Savage cited for cybersecurity work for G7

BGF’s John Savage cited for cybersecurity work for G7

Needless to say, the colleagues of Prof. John Savage at the Boston Global Forum  (BGF) were very pleased to read the announcement below from Brown University, which we have slightly edited for clarity. John Savage is a  BGF member and  the An Wang Professor of...