How to Build an Effective Data Protection Strategy
Businesses today have their data distributed across the cloud, partner networks, data centers, and on-premise locations. This could include data of varying levels of sensitivity such as customer data, financial records, and other business essential information. Protecting such information requires a great deal of resources. Every company aims to minimize the heightened risks of potential…
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Jan 03, 2025
Penetration Testing vs Vulnerability Scanning Explained
If you’ve been exploring the difference between the two, a prospect that you are working with has likely requested a pen testing report. You are stuck wondering how it differs from the vulnerability report you provided. If you’re still confused, let’s clear it up for you! What is Penetration testing and vulnerability scanning? Penetration testing…
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Jan 03, 2025
Risk Management in Healthcare: Strategies for a Safer Future
The healthcare sector has seen immense efficiency gains from technology—improved patient outcomes, centralized services through third-party vendors, better data management, and a constant drive for innovation. However, beneath the benefits lie a complex web of interconnected challenges—regulatory laws, clinical issues, patient data concerns, and an under-preparedness for cyber attacks. It’s no wonder that year after…
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Dec 30, 2024
Enterprise Risk Management: Frameworks, Implementation, Cost
Every business choice you make has some inherent risk to it—some very small, such as setting your password policy right, while others are much bigger, like entering a new market. Just think about it—what if the supplier doesn’t deliver? Or what if the compliance requirements in a new geography are vastly different from what you…
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Dec 18, 2024
Measuring and Managing Risk Exposure: The Key to Resilient Organizations
Organizations that operate with a defensive mindset and try to avoid as many risks as possible can just survive. However, the ones leveraging the right risks to innovate can thrive and gain a competitive edge. The difference here lies in the mindset and understanding of the organization’s capacity to absorb risks (or risk tolerance) and…
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Dec 15, 2024
Risk-Based Internal Audit: How to Prioritize, Plan and Mitigate Risks
Your company’s sensitive information is plastered across the internet. You seemed to be locked out of your system, and the ransom to get your access back is hefty, to say the least. You’re scrambling to understand what has happened, and the alarm goes off. Don’t worry; it’s a nightmare that I painted for you, at…
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Nov 27, 2024