Five Organizational Resilience Strategies for Security and Risk Management

Most business stakeholders are not focused on the same specifics as security and risk management (SRM) leaders. Stakeholders are interested in achieving company goals. To serve them, SRM leaders should aim their goal on organization resilience strategies. An adverse event like ransomware often disrupts operations, while resilience efforts help ensure a quick restart. Here are five strategies for SRM leaders that build on the security ...

By |2025-04-28T02:15:17+00:00March 21st, 2023|Governance, Risk & Compliance: GRC|

Navigating Healthcare’s IT Risk: 3 Strategies for Success

Healthcare Information Technology (IT) risk and cyber events are becoming more prevalent. In the meantime, healthcare’s attack surface is expanding quickly. This is especially true as remote technologies, connected devices such as the Internet of Things (IoT), and digitization all become more commonplace industry-wide. Of course, the pandemic only accelerated healthcare’s ongoing digitization. Healthcare data records—unlike other Personally Identifiable Information (PII) present drastically higher monetary value for cybercriminals. ...

By |2025-04-30T13:09:22+00:00March 15th, 2023|Compliance|

How to Combat Telehealth Fraud: 5 Smart Actions to Take 

Not long ago, telehealth adoption amidst COVID-19 soared--seemingly overnight—and continues to be mainstream. Now, unfortunately, telehealth fraud is, too. The number of data breaches have soared since the beginning of the pandemic. In fact, 2022 was the second-worst year ever regarding the number of reported data breaches—only to be topped by 2021.  Increased digital connections and communications in healthcare translates into increased audit and financial risks as ...

By |2023-03-15T05:28:59+00:00March 15th, 2023|Healthcare GRC|

5 Tips to Make Cyber Security in Australia a Business Priority

With over 200 reported cyber incidents every day, Australia is known as one of the most hacked countries in the world. Cyber security in Australia is very much needed. Australia's federal government recently issued the Enforcement Act with harsh penalties to incentivize businesses to improve privacy and data security measures. Penalties for severe and repeated interferences with privacy increased from 2.2 million to 50 million ...

By |2025-04-28T02:13:28+00:00March 14th, 2023|IT Risk & Cybersecurity|

Focus on Fundamentals for IT Security and Risk Management

Security and risk management (SRM) leaders are challenged today by the demands of their positions and expectations from stakeholders. Customers, regulators, auditors, and senior management want different things from SRM leaders. Identifying the processes and services that will demonstrate the value and communicate metrics and information sought by stakeholders is also difficult. Meanwhile, SRM leaders face regulatory requirements that are either new or continuously changing. ...

Improving Contractor Safety as Dependence Rises

Contractor safety management, a collection of integrated management processes designed to reduce the risks associated with contractors, is of vital importance to companies. Companies are also increasingly relying on the use of contractors on their worksites. It is especially true in the construction industry where contractors fill one of every five jobs in the United States and are expected to make up nearly half the ...

By |2025-04-28T02:13:20+00:00March 9th, 2023|EHS & Sustainability: EHS&S|

Gender Diversity in EHS&S: Focus on Support, Empathy, Compassion

Gender diversity has become essential for companies in creating an equal, innovative, and positive work environment. A more diverse Environmental, Health, Safety and Sustainability (EHS&S) workforce will drive ongoing industry innovation. According to industry statistics, a great opportunity exists across all EHS&S sectors to incorporate more diversity—not only of gender or gender identity but also of experience, knowledge and skill sets, and ideas. Consider the ...

By |2023-03-08T14:01:13+00:00March 8th, 2023|EHS & Sustainability: EHS&S, SAI360|

March is a Time to Celebrate Women and Promote DEIB

The month of March is a time to celebrate the achievements of women—both on March 8, which is International Women's Day—and throughout the month for National Women’s History Month in the United States. International Women's Day celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women and serves as a call to action for achieving equality for women. This year’s theme is #EmbraceEquity. In the United ...

By |2025-09-15T16:47:53+00:00March 8th, 2023|Ethics & Compliance Learning|

Key Drivers for 2023 Data Privacy & Information Security Training

Data privacy and information security training continue to remain a top organizational priority. The number and sophistication level of phishing attacks continues to grow worldwide. In the six months ending October 2022, phishing attacks grew by 61 percent over the same period in the previous year. And a recent study by the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) found that in the third quarter of 2022, worldwide phishing attacks ...

By |2025-04-28T02:12:58+00:00March 7th, 2023|Ethics & Compliance Learning, IT Risk & Cybersecurity|

ESG Metrics Management 101: What Businesses Need to Know

The link between Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) and positive corporate impact and performance is clear. Yet many organizations’ leaders and managers are still familiarizing themselves with operationalizing ESG metrics management and driving ESG efforts forward.  Prioritizing ESG can engender stakeholder and community support, as well as reduce fines, risks, and penalties. Some industry analysts have reported a correlation between higher equity returns and better ...