Security | Threat Detection | Cyberattacks | DevSecOps | Compliance

Latest News

Nucleus Product Update 4.1

Welcome to the Nucleus Product Update 4.1. It’s a new year with new things to get excited about together. Here’s to making 2024 a great one! 🥳 This update outlines lots of Nucleus happenings you don’t want to miss, including: We’re also including a link to our latest webinars, which are value-packed sessions you don’t want to miss. Get the details for all updates below.

Practitioner's Corner: Turning Regulatory Compliance into Strategic Opportunity

Cyber risk regulations like NIS2 and DORA in the EU, or PS21/3 in the UK, signal a seismic shift toward strengthening cyber resilience and enforcing accountability. Championing regulations is not just a matter of checking compliance boxes: it’s an opportunity to become a business leader. To enable growth and protect revenue.

What Are the Similarities and Differences Between FISMA vs. FedRAMP Certification?

The U.S. federal government has many laws and regulations intended to assure strong cybersecurity for government agencies. Two of the most important are the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP). Both FISMA and FedRAMP have the same fundamental goal: to assure that federal agencies and their vendors protect government data. That said, they also differ in many ways.

Building a Scalable Third Party Risk Management Framework

In an increasingly interconnected business world, companies are relying more and more on third parties like vendors, suppliers, contractors, and partners to support critical operations and functions. While these third party relationships can provide significant strategic benefits, they also introduce risks that must be managed across the enterprise. Organizations need to implement comprehensive programs to identify, assess, and mitigate the cyber, financial, reputational, and compliance risks associated with supplier and vendor ecosystems.

Manual GRC: Why Spreadsheets Are Not the Solution

In today’s rapidly evolving business environment, the stakes for maintaining robust governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) practices have never been higher. Regulators and auditors are scrutinizing areas such as risk management, regulatory mandates, cybersecurity, vendor management, and more with unprecedented rigor.

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.

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.

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.