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What Are Compliance Automation Tools?

Staying compliant with ever-changing regulatory and risk management standards can be a daunting task. Compliance automation tools have emerged as a vital solution, simplifying and streamlining your work to meet legal and industry standards. This blog explores the intricacies of compliance automation, the tools involved, and how they revolutionize the way organizations approach regulatory compliance.

Risk Mitigation in Retail: A Guide to E-commerce Cybersecurity

You're an online retailer, and you've got a lot on your plate. Don't let cybersecurity threats push you off balance. It's time you understood the risks, identified threats, assessed vulnerabilities, and took proactive steps to protect your e-commerce business. Dive deep into the essentials of risk mitigation in retail, learn how to implement strong password policies on computer systems, understand the role of encryption, and discover how to respond effectively to breaches.

Five worthy reads: Making AI functionality transparent using the AI TRiSM framework

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we have discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we will explore the pivotal role of the AI trust, risk, and security management (AI TRiSM) framework in safeguarding the functionality of AI and understand why it is crucial for our protection. Any relationship needs to be fortified with trust to be successful. The human-AI relationship is not an exception.

Building a Business Case for Investment in TPRM Software

Third-party risk management (TPRM) software is essential for any organization that utilizes third-party providers. If not monitored and managed, third-party vendors pose significant risks to the companies they work with, including cybersecurity, operational, financial, and legal/regulatory/compliance risks. TPRM software works seamlessly to help reduce this risk and provides your organization with ongoing monitoring to address vulnerabilities before they become significant security incidents.

What is a Cyber Security Audit vs. Assessment (And Which One You Need)

In this article: If you're a security leader being asked to facilitate a cybersecurity audit, or if you are a member of the board requesting one, you must understand the difference between a cybersecurity audit and a cybersecurity assessment. Despite sounding the same, both provide you with different types of information - and that might have a significant impact on your organization’s security posture. In this blog, we provide a quick introduction to a cybersecurity audit vs.

Risk Management in Network Security: 7 Best Practices for 2024

Protecting an organization against every conceivable threat is rarely possible. There is a practically unlimited number of potential threats in the world, and security leaders don’t have unlimited resources available to address them. Prioritizing risks associated with more severe potential impact allows leaders to optimize cybersecurity decision-making and improve the organization’s security posture.

Cybersecurity Maturity Model Implementation - A How-To Get Started Guide

Cybersecurity's overarching purpose is to better protect an organization against cyber events. However, especially in the corporate setting, it's not enough for chief information security officers (CISOs) to say they've implemented a patch or a firewall and, therefore, their systems are "more" secure. Not only is the result’s description vague, but it also offers very little insight into its ROI. ‍

How to Detect Shadow IT and Hidden Risk in Your Organization

In today's fast-paced business environment, the ever-evolving landscape of technology empowers employees with unprecedented flexibility and agility. While this fosters innovation and productivity, it also presents a lurking challenge—Shadow IT. This term encapsulates the use of unauthorized software, applications, or devices within an organization, posing substantial cybersecurity risks and operational hurdles.

SecurityScorecard Returns to the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting: Our Top 5 Insights

Last week, SecurityScorecard was invited back to participate in the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. It was a tremendous honor and, once again, we were the only security ratings company present (and one of the few cybersecurity companies). Our team spent the week with a dynamic mix of tech innovators, thought leaders, and heads of state, discussing some of the world’s most pressing political, societal, and economic challenges.