Reciprocity

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If your company is a service organization and your customers trust you with their data, you may need to pass a SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2) audit. Compliance and certification are the goals of a SOC 2 audit. The SOC 2 compliance audit gives them that assurance. Develop a SOC 2 Audit Framework. What is SOC 2?

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Audit Gap Analysis Security Cybersecurity 52

DRI Drive

OCTOBER 2, 2023

DRI encourages Certified Professionals to actively support these valuable partner organizations. Here’s what’s coming up in your region: Information Systems Audit and […] The post Collaborative Partner News: Oct. 3, 2023 appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Audit Activation Resilience 195

Security Industry Association

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s important to promote a safe learning environment for every student and protect the teachers, staff and visitors in our schools, and SIA appreciates the many talented security professionals who are working diligently each day to enhance the safety and security of our schools and mitigate active shooter threats. More is better.

Activation 98

Activation Security Architecture Mitigation 98

Stratogrid Advisory

JANUARY 29, 2019

Not another BCM Program audit? Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 4 minutes Another Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program audit. At its core, an audit is simply an assessment used to discover which areas the business will require a focus in the future.

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Audit BCM Impact Analysis Disaster Recovery 52

Stratogrid Advisory

JANUARY 29, 2019

Not another BCM Program audit? Another Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program audit. Some organizations think of audits as tedious, and often unnecessary, accounting procedures, rather than as a powerful business tool that can be used to improve the organization’s capabilities. BCM Program Audits.

Audit 52

Audit BCM Impact Analysis Disaster Recovery 52

Zerto

AUGUST 9, 2023

As a business owner or financial executive, you are responsible for safeguarding your company’s sensitive financial information from unauthorized access and tampering. Having a provable audit trail is the primary goal of Section 404 of SOX Compliance. Storing your data in an ironclad solution is immensely beneficial.

Cyber Resilience 85

Cyber Resilience Resilience Audit Disaster Recovery 85

Bernstein Crisis Management

MAY 19, 2023

Key activities in this stage include: Risk analysis: Conducting a comprehensive analysis of the organization’s operations to identify potential threats and assess their probability and potential impact. Externally Caused Crises These crises are triggered by external forces beyond the organization’s control.

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Crisis Management Management Evaluation Authorization 200

Zerto

JULY 6, 2023

Data Protection Delivering Real-Time Monitoring and Behavior Analysis Data protection vendors have started providing the ability to monitor data activity. Data protection vendors leverage this wealth of information to proactively identify and respond to new ransomware threats, further fortifying their defense mechanisms.

Resilience 105

Resilience Audit Cyber Resilience Vulnerability 105

Reciprocity

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

SOC 2 and ISO 27001 complement each other by giving you a strategy for securing your information landscape and for demonstrating the security of your environment. Designed by the International Standards Organization (ISO), ISO 27001 spells out industry standards for an information security management system (ISMS).

Audit 52

Audit Accreditation Acceptable Risk Security 52

Zerto

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The Importance of Backup for Microsoft Azure Active Directory In today’s digital landscape, organizations rely heavily on cloud-based services to safeguard critical data and ensure business continuity. Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) plays a crucial role as the identity and access management platform for Microsoft cloud services.

Disaster Recovery 52

Disaster Recovery Audit Backup Mitigation 52

Reciprocity

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If using an ISO audit software tool to achieve ISO certification is on your compliance roadmap, here’s a quick primer to get you up to speed and jumpstart your ISO compliance efforts. The ISO 27001 family, published by the International Organization for Standardization, includes a set of standards for information security.

Audit 52

Audit Accreditation Gap Analysis All-Hazards 52

Pure Storage

JANUARY 20, 2022

By evaluating customer behavior, companies can create strategic marketing plans that target a particular customer cohort—for example, by offering personalized recommendations based on previous purchases or social media activity. With big data, companies can also identify the activities that keep current customers satisfied.

Advertising 139

Advertising Retail Marketing Audit 139

Advancing Analytics

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It acts as a central storage repository for all metadata assets, accompanied by tools for governing data, access control, auditing, and lineage. Unity Catalog streamlines the security and governance of the data by providing a central place to administer and audit data access. This makes the feature extremely valuable and effective.

Audit 59

Audit Government Architecture Security 59

Pure Storage

AUGUST 3, 2023

This can be a serious threat to audit trails and other compliance controls. Assets that are vulnerable to repudiation include logs, audit trails, and digital signatures. Information Disclosure: Information disclosure refers to the ability of an attacker to gain unauthorized access to sensitive data.

Authentication 87

Authentication Vulnerability Authorization Audit 87

FS-ISAC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

On one hand, CISOs are drowning in information, and on the other, we cannot get the info we need to make solid choices. One of my main duties included briefing the Commander on the latest research/threat intel on cyber domain adversary activity. Let me start with one of my favorite war stories.

Cybersecurity 84

Cybersecurity Strategic Internet Evaluation 84

Reciprocity

MARCH 24, 2022

Concerns over information security and data privacy are driving this change, but so are laws. Information management. It encompasses controls for cybersecurity, information technology, data security, and business resiliency. Initial vision and ad hoc activity. Approved route and ad hoc activity. Segmentation.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Management Audit Cybersecurity 52

Security Industry Association

MAY 30, 2023

This milestone highlights SIA’s long-term commitment to being ANSI accredited across the standards we develop, promote and advocate, which foster interoperability and information sharing in the security industry. Efforts like these would not be possible without the support and active participation of our member volunteers.

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Accreditation Security Architecture Audit 97

Reciprocity

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The ISO 27001 standard for management of information systems helps organizations of any size to manage the security of data assets such as employee information, financial information, intellectual property, and third-party information. 5 – Information Security Policies. 7 – Human Resource Security.

Gap Analysis 52

Gap Analysis Audit Security Asset Management 52

Security Industry Association

APRIL 10, 2024

Shellenberger, along with SIA and the Maryland Chiefs and Sheriffs Association, participated among other individuals and organizations in an informal legislative task force to develop the legislation, led by Del. Moon (D-Montgomery County) and Maryland Sen. Charles Sydnor (D-Baltimore County).

Technology 98

Technology Government Audit Security 98

Fusion Risk Management

JANUARY 31, 2024

As organizations begin to determine the impact that DORA has on their specific business, a common thread has emerged: while Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) is its own pillar in the regulation, TPRM touches on all other pillars of the regulation.

Management 52

Management Risk Management Activation Outsourcing 52

Pure Storage

JANUARY 20, 2022

By evaluating customer behavior, companies can create strategic marketing plans that target a particular customer cohort—for example, by offering personalized recommendations based on previous purchases or social media activity. With big data, companies can also identify the activities that keep current customers satisfied.

Advertising 97

Advertising Retail Marketing Audit 97

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Last-minute Compliance items and Audit remediations. ​Here are two high-value low-investment end-of-year activities to keep your Business Continuity programs on track and ready to face the unexpected in 2020! Note that an Assessment is different from an Audit. ​It’s that time of year again. Closing the books.

Audit 130

Audit Outage Evaluation Business Continuity 130

Solutions Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Description: Archer IT & Security Risk Management enables users to document and report on IT risks and controls, security vulnerabilities, audit findings, regulatory obligations, and issues across their technology infrastructure. Fusion Risk Management. Platform: Fusion Framework System. Platform: HighBond.

Risk Management 98

Risk Management Management Audit Hospitality 98

Reciprocity

APRIL 4, 2022

Chief information security officers (CISOs) wear many hats within their organizations – and those hats just seem to keep piling on. In most organizations, the CISO is the executive responsible for the security of information and data, and works closely with the chief information officer (CIO) and reports to the board of directors.

Audit 52

Audit Cybersecurity Risk Management Alert 52

LogisManager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Ransomware attacks are running rampant, and hackers are using the vulnerability of HIPAA-protected information to advance their coercion. This organization is required to submit evidence to auditors each quarter that demonstrates they are reviewing which employees have access to sensitive information within the applications they use.

Healthcare 96

Healthcare Audit Pandemic Risk Management 96

KingsBridge BCP

JUNE 22, 2021

This is a perfect opportunity to share information about the business continuity plan and who to contact should they have follow-up questions. This is the time to capture after-hours contact information, and emphasize the need to keep the information current. This is often enough to convince them! Test communication strategies.

Business Continuity 94

Business Continuity BCP Continuity Planning Audit 94

LogisManager

AUGUST 17, 2021

This collaborative group of developers, designers, lawyers and risk managers uses those insights, along with rigorous R&D, to inform the way LogicManager works. It’s no question that they’ve got a lot to share, so we’ll be publishing these insights to our blog to help you make more informed business decisions.

Audit 98

Audit Government Risk Management Alert 98

KingsBridge BCP

AUGUST 14, 2022

We develop plans for our clients, we help mentor clients on how to build their plans themselves, we review existing plans for gaps, and we audit plans. How do you know if you have just enough – or too much – information? For example, one of your steps might be to “Inform vendors of the incident and provide temporary instructions.”

BCP 89

BCP Audit Outage Continuity Professionals 89

Reciprocity

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Or if you’re a healthcare provider offering tele-medicine and accepting credit card payments, you need to implement controls protecting both electronic personal health information (ePHI) and cardholder information. Set up a mechanism for monitoring and auditing. Elements of a Strong Compliance Program.

Audit 52

Audit All-Hazards Gap Analysis Healthcare 52

LogisManager

JANUARY 4, 2022

This makes it hard to even locate, let alone compare and aggregate, risk information. With traditional GRC functions like vendor management, information security, compliance, audit and more, risk management activities can easily become unnecessarily duplicative. Step 2: Connect risk activities to strategic goals.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Management Activation Government 52

LogisManager

MARCH 19, 2024

According to an INTERPOL report , between January and April 2020, there was a significant increase in malicious cyber activities attributed to the pandemic shift to WFH. Companies are expected to establish and maintain a robust cybersecurity posture to protect their customers’ information from cyberattacks and data breaches.

Cybersecurity 59

Cybersecurity Risk Management Vulnerability Mitigation 59

Reciprocity

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Not only can an integrated risk management program save you money by avoiding business disruptions; it can also help your accounting team come audit time. Control Activities. Information and Communication. It also streamlines the audit process, so you can save time and money and improve audit outcomes. Monitoring.

Risk Management 52

Risk Management Management Audit Strategic 52

Reciprocity

AUGUST 15, 2022

Regular audits of the compliance program. So compliance risk management requires a complex web of compliance activities (from change management to compliance monitoring, and much more) to assure that all enterprise business units conform to applicable laws. Compliance Audit. Front-Line Employees.

Management 52

Management Audit Banking Risk Management 52

Pure Storage

JUNE 12, 2023

This “conversation” between the web browser and web server can contain valuable information about how a site is functioning. HTTP Archive Files, or HAR files, are files that provide a log of browser activities, or network requests, that occur while accessing a website—whether it’s Firefox, Chrome, Safari, etc. Why Are HAR Files Useful?

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Audit Activation Healthcare 52

LogisManager

MARCH 19, 2024

According to an INTERPOL report , between January and April 2020, there was a significant increase in malicious cyber activities attributed to the pandemic shift to WFH. Companies are expected to establish and maintain a robust cybersecurity posture to protect their customers’ information from cyberattacks and data breaches.

Cybersecurity 52

Cybersecurity Risk Management Vulnerability Mitigation 52

Pure Storage

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Operational Resilience Requirements in Asia-Pacific Examples from Singapore, Hong Kong, and Australia Across APAC, regulators have been active over the past several years in crafting and implementing new regulations for operational resilience. The new standard was finalized in July 2023 and comes fully into effect as of July 1, 2025.

Financial Services 59

Financial Services Resilience Audit Authorization 59

Solutions Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In this feature, Continuity ‘s CTO Doron Pinhas offers CISOs rely on information from across the organization about security, particularly from the various IT departments. Unfortunately, the information being fed to CISOs about the state of cybersecurity risk is incomplete. There is a blind spot present – a gaping hole.

Cyber Resilience 105

Cyber Resilience Backup Resilience Vulnerability 105