by Bob Cohen | May 23, 2018 | Disaster Recovery
One of the most important elements of a business impact analysis (BIA) or other business continuity planning exercises is identifying each function’s critical records. The survival of your business may depend on the availability of critical records. Without them,...
by Bob Cohen | May 17, 2018 | Business Continuity Management
I suspect that most senior executives and managers, especially those directly concerned with operations, probably worry about business continuity just about every waking moment, although they might not think about it that way. But if you ask them, “What keeps you up...
by Chris Dorr | May 8, 2018 | Third Party Risk Management
Cloud services are used by 97% of all companies. A jaw-dropping 26% of those companies have experienced data theft from the public cloud, according to a fascinating new study by McAfee. That means cloud services have a 74% success rate when it comes to data security....
by Chris Dorr | May 4, 2018 | ISMS Consulting, Third Party Risk Management
In the past, I’ve written about the Shared Assessment group’s on-site third-party vendor assessment tool called the Agreed Upon Procedures, or AUP. This has been a very useful and cost-effective tool for performing an in-depth, independently...
by Lou Romero | Oct 17, 2017 | InfoSec Strategies
In my recent cyber security work with municipalities, I gained an appreciation for the information security challenges K-12 public school systems face. Because they manage troves of personal, health, financial and academic data, every school district is a target for...
