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Continuity Christmas Cleanup

Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

Organizations are putting a bookmark to 2019 and preparing for 2020. Last-minute Compliance items and Audit remediations. Note that an Assessment is different from an Audit. An Audit examines controls and measures a program to a documented standard. ​It’s that time of year again. Closing the books.

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Unlocking Climate Change Resilience Through Critical Event Management and Public Warning

everbridge

In the period 2000 to 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events claiming 1.23 The report “The Human Cost of Disasters 2000-2019” also records major increases in other categories including drought, wildfires , and extreme temperature events. million lives, affecting 4.2 Floods and storms were the most prevalent events.”.

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Internal Controls & Fraud Prevention

Reciprocity

By 2019, fraud events cost businesses $5.127 trillion each year. Internal Audits. Solid internal audit procedures limit the risk of fraud. Along with management reviews, internal audits are critical to assess existing anti-fraud controls and assure they remain effective and up-to-date. External Audits.

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Integrating Risk Disciplines: Business Continuity and Cyber Response

Castellan

That’s a 100% increase compared to 2019. Cyber resilience, integrated with your business continuity program, can help you manage and evaluate your effectiveness and know just how effective your controls and processes are long before an incident, breach, or audit.

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IRM, ERM, and GRC: Is There a Difference?

Reciprocity

2007-2012): Audit management, enterprise, and operational risk management, compliance beyond financial controls, and more. 2013-2018): Using GRC solutions for enterprise-wide management in various areas such as risk management, compliance, legal, finance, audit, security, and health and safety. GRC 4.0: (2018-present): Automated GRC.

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Get a Handle on Multicloud Spend and Waste – For Good

Pure Storage

If you’ve had a more piecemeal, de facto adoption of multicloud so far, take time to pause and do an audit. Bottom line: Regularly re-evaluate your multicloud strategy from a high level. To head off waste and keep budgets in check, expect change, and design an infrastructure that can support that flexibility. What’s the solution?

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Are You Telling Your Clients Your Company is HIPAA Certified?

Prism International

During the early implementation of HIPAA, venders completed an internal self-evaluation based on initial guidelines and expectations for the protection of PHI. For audit purposes, a copy of the certificate should be maintained in a Personnel file. They later proclaimed their software was HIPAA Certified. HIPAA blog.