To build a successful business you’ll need to acquire new customers, save on costs, and avoid major pitfalls that could impact your bottom line. An important aspect of this is managing your organization's compliance risk. These include the risk of penalties, legal judgments, and other issues that could come as a result of not complying with legal regulations and industry standards.

The United States enacted the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) in 2002 as part of the E-Government Act of 2002 to enhance the administration of electronic government services and operations, and since has been amended by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA 2014). This law requires federal agencies to develop, implement, and maintain an information security program to protect the sensitive data they handle.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is poised to significantly influence various facets of society, spanning healthcare, transportation, finance, and national security. Industry practitioners and citizens overall are actively considering and discussing the myriad ways AI could be employed or should be applied.

‍ The use of risk matrices for decision-making purposes extends back to the 1980s when the US Department of Defense needed a quick and easy way to evaluate hazards in safety systems engineering. Since then, the matrix has been applied in multiple fields to assess potential results and their associated risks, emerging as an instrumental tool for organizations grappling with making high-level strategic investments. ‍

Software liability is an increasingly important area for every software development company and team. At its core, software liability is about protecting users from damages caused by software issues. As more software is in use than ever before, there’s a lot of ways that software — and its manufacturers — could be held responsible for certain actions or inactions. Indeed, even the rise of cyber insecurity globally could fall into this murky area.

Your web server conveys a variety of information to the client when a visitor opens your website. They can access specific policies you've set and sometimes identify what kind of software you use to run your system. Sometimes, that's okay. Other times, the information exposed in your server header can lead directly to a malicious cyber attack.

Managing risk is a complicated task because modern organizations have so many risks to address. One way to track all those risks is via a risk register — essentially, a catalog of your company’s risks and how you’re trying to manage them. This article serves as an introduction to risk registers: what they are, how they can help your risk management program, and what you should consider as you’re evaluating various risk register products before you buy one.

According to the Flexera 2021 State of the Cloud Report, the cloud has already become “mainstream,” with organizations in almost every industry migrating into it in increasing numbers. Cloud migration refers to moving an organization’s digital assets from legacy, “on-premise” (on-prem) infrastructure to the cloud. That would include IT assets such as: Soon, 59 percent of organizations plan to focus on cloud migration.

Every IT organization focuses on incident prevention, as even the slightest “situation” involving security breaches, system outages, or other significant incidents can significantly damage a company’s reputation. This slippery slope erodes client trust, hinders sales, and chips away at your customer base.

Even before the pandemic forced most of us to shop online, we were already heading in that direction — an easy transition considering that, according to Experian, each U.S. consumer carries an average of four credit cards from which to choose. However, this increase in credit card usage also brings more significant risks associated with collecting customer data.