A Healthcare Risk Assessment Made Easy
Cyberattacks are a major cause of data breaches in the healthcare industry. But then, there are compromises in which a brief moment of carelessness can cause an incredible headache.Take the breach...
View ArticleWhy the Integration of Siloed Risk Management Procedures Is Crucial
You likely have heard all about the data breaches in which a vendor was responsible for the compromise. Furthermore, the news of said breaches might have spurred you to examine your organization’s own...
View ArticleBanking Risk Management: What We Learned from 2015
According to Kaspersky Lab, 82 percent of businesses would consider leaving a bank if it had suffered a data breach. Consumers may be (slightly) more tolerant of financial institutions that are...
View Article4 Keys to Success with Healthcare Vendor Management Programs
The Identity Theft Resource Center has been tracking data breaches since 2005, recently passing the 6,000 mark over that time. Of those 6,000 breaches, 27.9 percent occurred in the healthcare industry,...
View Article4 Risk Management Tips to Consider as Technology Evolves
By 2020, an estimated 6.1 billion smartphones will be in use. That covers about 70 percent of the world population. The number is staggering considering that smartphones did not exist 10 years ago, and...
View ArticleVendor Screening: What It Will Look Like in 2020
Think about how much third-party risk management has changed over the past 25 years. The methods used for vendor screening have evolved—remember, the spreadsheet-based assessment was once considered a...
View ArticleHow Risk Assessment Software Brings Peace of Mind to Risk Managers
Verizon’s latest Data Breach Investigations Report is out, and as in past years, it contains enough bad news to keep risk professionals and IT departments up at night. Here’s one finding that might...
View ArticleRisk Management Partners: 4 Red Flags to Look For
Third-party risk is on the rise—at least that’s what business executives believe. And they may be right.According to new research by the Ponemon Institute, 70 percent of the 617 executives interviewed...
View ArticleRisk Scoring’s Role with Vendor Compliance Solutions
Another day of news, another whopper of a data breach makes headlines. This recent incident isa report that 272.3 million usernames and passwords for email accounts were stolen and are being traded in...
View ArticleWhy the Right Risk Management Software Is So Important
A recent data breach highlights the importance of vendor risk management. A Utah-based essential oil company sent a letter to customers informing them that their personal information, including Social...
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