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The 2021 Ransomware Landscape for Risk Managers (Q&A)

David Klopp, Managing Director in the Cyber Risk practice of Kroll, recently spoke at the first session of PARIMA’s Confident Response Series 2021. The series aims to fine-tune incident response preparedness and help risk managers understand the latest tactics, techniques and procedures from the most successful cybercriminals, leading to deeper collaboration with business partners and mitigation of technical, legal and reputational risks.

CMMC vs NIST: What's the Difference?

If your firm is a government contractor working with the U.S. Department of Defense, or works anywhere in the DoD supply chain, brace for big changes in the cybersecurity requirements your business will need to meet. By 2026, the Defense Department will require its contractors to comply with new cybersecurity standards known as the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification — CMMC, for short.

Reciprocity and ZenGRC Honored with Industry Accolades for Information Security Risk and Compliance

SAN FRANCISCO – March 10, 2021 – Reciprocity, a leader in information security risk and compliance with its ZenGRC solution, today announces ZenGRC has been named a winner of four 2021 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards. The company was also recognized as a Grand Trophy Winner, the top honor, along with four category awards by the Globee Awards 17th Annual Cyber Security Global Excellence Awards.

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Security Monitoring and Risk Analysis for Office 365 - A maintainable Journey

The NIST framework tells us that it is crucial to treat security as both an action that is not a singular fix but a chorus of proactive and reactive measures. It also teaches us that it is a continuous journey. In this article, we shall apply these concepts of measures and continuous journeys to some real-world examples. Here we choose Office 365 as, for many organizations, it exposes the dominant risk surface.

What is Compliance Management?

Compliance management ensures that an organization’s policies and procedures align with a specific set of rules. The organization’s personnel must follow the policies and procedures to ensure compliance with the set of rules. These rules are based on legal, regulatory, and industry standards.The goal of the compliance management program is to reduce an organization’s overall risk of non-compliance with the legal, regulatory, and industry standards that apply to the business.

Quantifying CyberRisk- Solving the riddle

In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s there was a concept that was bandied about that was coined “Return on Security Investment” or ROSI. Borrowing from the common business term Return on Investment (ROI) where a return on a particular investment (capital investment, personnel, training etc.) could be quantified, the cybersecurity industry attempted to quantify a return on security investment.

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Using Technology to Keep Compliance Costs Down

Regulatory compliance is overwhelming for any company without the right tools. Think of multinational financial firms that have to comply with laws in multiple jurisdictions where they operate. Thus, as various governments continue to implement programs to lower regulatory burdens on businesses, company leaders know there's a need to cut down on regulatory compliance costs. Luckily, technology can help cut compliance expenses without cutting regulations-related oversights and protection.

How to perform a cyber security risk assessment? Step by step guide.

Taking cyber security risk assessment out of the equation, risk assessments are nothing new to the world. Industries such as nuclear, aerospace, oil, agriculture, military and railroad have long-established processes to deal with risk. Continuous risk assessments are performed by food, medical, hospital sectors to control risks affecting their environments.

ZenGRC Named 2021 Governance, Risk and Compliance Emotional Footprint Award Champion

SAN FRANCISCO – February 4, 2021 – Reciprocity announces today that ZenGRC, the industry-leading information security risk and compliance solution, was named 2021 Governance, Risk and Compliance Emotional Footprint Award Champion by Info-Tech Research Group’s SoftwareReviews. The Champion designation is awarded to the vendors that receive top user scores.

Snyk and Rapid7 strengthen partnership to provide a holistic risk assessment solution for container applications

Modern organizations are working hard to differentiate their products and services by creating innovative solutions that their customers can leverage at home and on-the-go, forcing them to consider new, more agile approaches to application development that empower their development teams to accelerate time-to-market, and launch new solutions as quickly as possible.