Hiring for the CSuite is often expensive and difficult. Some of the challenges include time to hire, the ability to afford overhead of hiring another c-level or technical resource and the risk of loosing the resource shortly after hire due to another organization reaching out to your resource with a benefit you cannot provide.
In a research study by Ropes & Gray, over 50 percent of business executives cited Risk and Compliance as the one of the two top business risks they felt least prepared to addressed. Risk, by definition, is an exposure to danger, harm, or loss. Compliance is the action or fact that facilitates the hopeful mitigation of identified risk.
Acronyms for hardware and software in the field of information security can be listed all day long without repeat; however, this does not address the greatest security risk to an organization. In a 2021 study, it was found 9 in 10 data breach incidents were caused by human error.
The words “Reasonable Security” often come up in executive meetings to help understand “what do we need to do?” As a security professional, our goal is to make things as secure based on a risk-based approach but risk can be defined differently based on where one is. In 2019, a big scramble was made by…
Often times an organization is asked “Do you have a SOC 2?” when one wants to find out about an organization’s information security state; however, do we know what benefit that really provides? A SOC 2 Report is a report that helps prospective customers, current and future auditors, investors, and company stakeholders understand the controls…
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