Insurance companies process highly sensitive personal data including health information, financial records, and claims history. IQWorks automates privacy compliance, protects policyholder data across underwriting, claims, and distribution systems, and streamlines multi-state regulatory reporting.
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NYDFS Cybersecurity Regulation (23 NYCRR 500) breach notification deadline
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The Challenge
Insurance companies collect and process some of the most sensitive personal information in any industry. Underwriting requires detailed health histories, financial records, driving records, and property information. Claims processing generates medical records, accident reports, and financial assessments. Distribution channels including agents, brokers, and digital platforms each create additional data touchpoints.
Insurers must comply with GLBA, state insurance privacy laws, HIPAA for health insurers, NAIC model laws, and international regulations like GDPR for global operations. State insurance departments conduct regular market conduct examinations that scrutinize data handling practices.
Modern insurtech innovations including telematics, IoT sensors, and AI-driven underwriting models are creating new data flows that traditional privacy frameworks struggle to govern.
Sensitive Policyholder Data Across Systems
Policyholder data including health records, financial information, and claims history flows through policy administration systems, claims platforms, agent portals, and third-party data providers.
Multi-State Regulatory Compliance
Insurance is regulated at the state level, requiring compliance with 50+ different privacy and data security frameworks with different breach notification timelines and consumer rights provisions.
Claims Data Protection
Claims files contain extremely sensitive information including medical records, accident reports, and financial assessments that require granular access controls while enabling efficient processing.
Agent and Broker Data Governance
Independent agents and brokers access policyholder data through various channels. Ensuring data protection extends to distribution partners who may use their own systems is operationally challenging.
The Solution
IQWorks provides insurance companies with a unified data protection platform spanning the entire insurance value chain. DiscoverIQ scans policy administration systems, claims platforms, underwriting workbenches, and agent portals to build a complete map of policyholder data. ClassifyIQ identifies sensitive categories including HIPAA-protected health data, GLBA financial information, and state-specific protected categories.
ProtectIQ applies role-based data masking and encryption so claims adjusters, underwriters, and agents access only the data elements they need. SearchIQ automates consumer data requests from policyholders across all systems within state-specific timelines.
ComplyIQ maintains a multi-state compliance dashboard tracking requirements across all jurisdictions. RetainIQ enforces retention schedules that account for state-specific insurance record retention requirements and litigation hold obligations.
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Connect Insurance Systems
IQWorks integrates with policy administration systems, claims platforms, underwriting tools, agent management systems, and data warehouses through insurance-specific connectors.
Connect Insurance Systems
IQWorks integrates with policy administration systems, claims platforms, underwriting tools, agent management systems, and data warehouses through insurance-specific connectors.
Discover Policyholder Data
DiscoverIQ identifies all policyholder PII, health data, financial information, and claims records across production systems, archives, and third-party integrations.
Discover Policyholder Data
DiscoverIQ identifies all policyholder PII, health data, financial information, and claims records across production systems, archives, and third-party integrations.
Apply Multi-State Classification
ClassifyIQ tags policyholder data with applicable state-specific requirements, enabling jurisdiction-appropriate protection controls and retention policies.
Apply Multi-State Classification
ClassifyIQ tags policyholder data with applicable state-specific requirements, enabling jurisdiction-appropriate protection controls and retention policies.
Protect Claims and Underwriting Data
ProtectIQ applies role-based masking so claims adjusters see only claims-relevant data while underwriters see only underwriting-relevant data.
Protect Claims and Underwriting Data
ProtectIQ applies role-based masking so claims adjusters see only claims-relevant data while underwriters see only underwriting-relevant data.
Automate Consumer Requests
SearchIQ fulfills policyholder data access and deletion requests across all systems, respecting state-specific timelines and exemptions for active claims.
Automate Consumer Requests
SearchIQ fulfills policyholder data access and deletion requests across all systems, respecting state-specific timelines and exemptions for active claims.
Key Benefits
Key Takeaways
- Manage privacy compliance across 50+ state insurance regulatory frameworks from a single platform
- Protect sensitive claims data with role-based masking and granular access controls
- Automate policyholder data subject requests within state-specific timelines
- Discover policyholder data across policy admin, claims, underwriting, and distribution systems
- Enforce insurance-specific record retention requirements by state and record type
- Prepare for state market conduct examinations with on-demand compliance evidence
- Govern insurtech data flows including telematics and IoT data collection
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