As SAI360 celebrates Women's History Month, we want to specifically take a moment to pause and acknowledge the contributions of female leaders in the risk, compliance, and sustainability fields. In honor of this month, we invite our readers to take part in a four-minute online survey to reflect on your industry experiences and share your gender diversity stories. We look forward to compiling responses into ...
A growing trend among cyberattacks is targeting vendors to gain entry into larger corporations. The number of attacks is dire...and growing. Supply chain attacks increased more than 600 percent last year. By 2025, it’s estimated that 45 percent of organizations worldwide will have experienced attacks on their software supply chain, according to a Gartner report. The explosion of outsourcing has created complex supply chains that ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
As the importance of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance continues to grow worldwide, organizations face challenges not only to define what ESG means to their business, but also how to manage its wide-ranging impact: Regulators are amping up their focus on ESG with increased disclosure requirements. Investment decisions and board changes are being made based on ESG practices. Employees and customers are making decisions ...
by Charles Freericks, Director, Learning Program Advisory At SAI360, we don’t author Ethics and Compliance (E&C) courses to win awards, but when we do win one as prestigious and meaningful as this year’s Anthem Award, it encourages all of our learning and experience designers to know we’ve done something a cut above the expected. Recently we were delighted to hear that our course, “Interactions and ...
By removing silos and connecting risk management with cybersecurity and business continuity, organizations can develop the cyber resilience needed to meet the increasing threats of cyber disruption.
