How Vulnerable is Your Company to an Attack by Cyber Criminals?

While cyberattacks caused by sophisticated cybercriminals and the advent of artificial intelligence (AI) make headline news, human error continues to drive most cyber events. According to Harvard Business Review (HBR), more than 80% of cyber incidents are attributed to end-user error. The worldwide cost of cybercrime was estimated at $10 trillion in 2023 and is expected to more than double in the next four years. In addition, in a 2022 study by Stanford University, 90% of ransomware attacks originated through phishing emails to employees, according to an article by Maria Long, Vice President, Cyber Underwriter & Risk Management Portfolio Leader […]

Roanoke Insurance Group is excited to announce the formation of our Client Experience department. This new department will be led by Amanda Barlow, who has served our clients in a variety of capacities throughout her tenure at Roanoke. Most recently as the Regional Vice President of our Western region. Roanoke’s Kylie Reinert will join Amanda in building our Client Experience Department as Client Success Enablement Manager, which is a role she has been performing for the past year. The Client Experience team will be laser-focused on one overarching goal—to identify and implement strategies which make it easy and enjoyable for […]

By: Andrew Johnson, Account Executive, Roanoke Insurance Group Inc. The freight brokerage industry as we know it today began in the late 1970s and early 1980s, around the time of the Motor Carrier Act of 1980. Before the passage of this landmark legislation, regulations were too restrictive to make freight brokerage a viable business segment. Fast-forward to today, and most motor carriers, by authority definition, also have a freight brokerage operation. Freight brokerages fulfill a vital service in modern logistics, connecting independent carriers with loads and drastically reducing empty repositioning moves. Brokering also allows carriers to complement their assets by […]