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Third-Party Due Diligence Best Practices
No matter your industry, business relationships with third-party vendors are the most significant risk to your information landscape. Increasingly, companies are adding more Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) vendors to streamline business processes. However, vendor due diligence becomes more complicated as you add new services. What is Third-Party Due Diligence? Third-party due diligence is the process of vetting […]
Tags: Compliance
October 7, 2024
The Key Differences between FedRAMP A-TO & P-ATO
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) helps U.S. federal agencies assess cloud service providers’ security more efficiently. It aims to protect government data and information systems and promote the adoption of secure cloud products and services by federal agencies. FedRAMP standardizes security requirements and authorizations for SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS cloud services per […]
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How to Prevent Third-Party Vendor Data Breaches
Third-party data breaches can happen at any time to any organization. This type of breach occurs when a vendor (or some other business partner) holding your company’s data suffers a breach, and your data is exposed. According to the Verizon 2022 Data Breach Investigations Report, 62 percent of all data breaches happen via third-party vendors. Even worse, IBM […]
Tags: Cybersecurity
How to Avoid the Common Risks of Implementing New Software
The first computer software program was released and executed in 1948 at the University of Manchester: a math program that computed the greatest divisor of 2 to the 18th power. It took 52 minutes to calculate the answer. Software has come a long way since then. It powers the digital economy; organizations in every industry […]
Tags: Compliance, Risk Management
October 1, 2024
Top Risks Faced by Oil and Gas Companies
Risk management programs must be tailored to a company’s specific risks, and often those risks correlate to whatever industry that company is in. Oil & gas companies are particularly challenged because they are a critical infrastructure sector with little room for error and they operate in complex environments, which means plenty of risks that demand […]
Tags: Oil & Gas, Risk Management
How to Leverage AI to Streamline GRC Compliance: The Future of Automated Auditing
How to Leverage AI to Streamline GRC Compliance: The Future of Automated Auditing Key Takeaway: Integrating AI into GRC processes transforms traditional audit approaches into real-time, proactive compliance management. It enables automated data collection, continuous monitoring, predictive risk assessment, and intelligent control mapping across compliance frameworks like HIPAA, ISO, SOC, NIST, and FedRAMP. Quick Navigation […]
Tags: GRC
September 27, 2024
What is Cybersecurity Automation?
Conventional cybersecurity management solutions are becoming outdated, unable to handle the exponential growth of sophisticated security threats. Plus, financial and talent constraints impede the ability of security teams to expand. Given those difficult circumstances, how can security teams improve their capacity to minimize data breaches even amid today’s increasingly complex attack surfaces? Enter cybersecurity automation. In this article you’ll learn why cybersecurity automation is important, different types […]
Tags: Cybersecurity
September 25, 2024
Risk Management Process For Insurance Companies
Insurance companies know how to protect their clients’ homes, cars, and businesses. But protecting those customers’ personal information is a bit harder to ensure. While the insurance industry focuses on risk-based analyses for its underwriting programs, firms must also apply those same risk management processes to securing customer information. What Are the Different Types of […]
Tags: Insurance, Risk Management
Important Disaster Recovery Scenarios to Test
However safe and resilient your company’s operations might be, there’s always the chance that something will occur to interrupt business operations. Hence, every company should have a disaster recovery plan that maps out how to respond to a disaster so that the company can return to normal operations as soon as possible. That said, companies need to do more […]
Tags: GRC
What is Cybersecurity Architecture and Why is it Important?
Cybersecurity threats abound, and the pace of cybersecurity attacks is increasing steadily year after year. At the same time, consumers are also becoming more aware of cybersecurity harms, and demanding better performance from the companies with which they do business. Regulators hear that sentiment from consumers too, and are responding with ever more stringent rules […]
Tags: NIST
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