Effective corporate compliance is an increasingly urgent issue for businesses. More regulations continue to proliferate across the landscape, and compliance obligations are becoming more complex. The need for an effective compliance management tool to help CISOs and senior management meet those ever-expanding compliance requirements has never been greater. A manual approach to tracking and monitoring compliance activities drives up costs and is more prone to error.

A disruption to your company’s information technology (IT) systems can disrupt your business operations as well, costing you time and money while employees wait for repairs. An audit of your IT systems can identify and fix those potential disruptions before they happen – and an IT audit checklist can assure that your IT department has the necessary resources in place to keep your systems safe.

A company’s employees, shareholders, senior management, and board of directors expect that company to conduct its business reliably, efficiently, and securely – especially its financial transactions. Internal controls are the mechanisms a company uses to assure that its business processes meet those expectations. And to keep that system of internal controls running smoothly year after year, you must identify the internal control weaknesses in those systems.

Technological innovations have unlocked a world of possibilities in the 21st century, and now, many common and tedious tasks can be quickly done online. Whether you’re collaborating on business processes, renewing your license or ordering groceries – the internet provides a streamlined avenue for consumers and organizations. An interesting side-effect is the reduced tolerance for manual, complicated or inefficient processes. Sadly, one of those tedious processes is conducting risk assessments.

Risk mitigation – that is, taking steps to reduce the exposure your organization has to risks you’ve identified – is crucial to any organization. The question is how to mitigate your risks, because organizations can employ any number of strategies to do so. Some of those strategies might be excellent fits with your business model; others, less so. This article will explore 10 proven risk mitigation strategies to help organizations effectively manage and minimize risk exposure.

ISO 9000 and ISO 9001 are terms that are often used interchangeably when discussing quality management at an organization, but they actually refer to separate things. While both are related to quality assurance and ISO certification, they have distinct differences in their fundamentals and approach.

Cybersecurity is one of the top concerns for organizations. In recent years, and that’s not going to change any time soon – unless, if anything, cybersecurity becomes the top concern. So what can an organization do about the rise in cybersecurity incidents? In this article we’ll take a closer look at security incidents: what they are, the most common types, and how to prevent and mitigate them.

In the realm of information security, risk management is often regarded as a vital component in safeguarding organizations against cyber threats. However, despite the efforts of security personnel and the existence of risk management systems, many organizations continue to encounter issues. It is crucial to acknowledge that the clunkiness of information security risk management – and the subsequent misunderstandings – can be major obstacles to achieving effective risk mitigation.

Discover the changes CISA has made to their Cyber Security Evaluation Tool and what it could mean for your business.

Today’s corporate IT environments are complex and diverse. The security system to protect those environments can easily have hundreds of individual parts, and all of those parts need to be looked at individually and as a whole. To assure that all those parts are working as intended, you should perform a cybersecurity audit. Audits aren’t just good sense, either; many data privacy and security regulations require audits. That said, the steps for a cybersecurity audit can be long.