Building Breach Resistance in Your Business Partners

November 10, 2015 | Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Shared Assessments, Third Party Risk, Third Party Risk Management

According to the Ponemon Institute’s 2014 Global Report on the Cost of Cybercrime, a quarter of organizations worldwide fail to meet their own security requirements. If your organization is one of that 25 percent, given the surging rate of cybercrime, you are probably hurrying to ramp up privacy a ....

Is a New Certification Program the Key to Reducing Third Party Risk?

June 26, 2015 | Certification, Certified Third Party Risk Professional (CTPRP), Data Breach, Risk, Risk Assessment, Risk Professionals, Third Party Risk, Third Party Risk Management

Hacker data breaches that exploit vulnerable third party vendors dominate news headlines, boardroom discussions, and C-suite meeting agendas. As a result of the proliferation of such attacks, it has become increasingly imperative for organizations to ensure successful evaluation, monitoring, and man ....

The Cybersecurity Panic Room

April 21, 2015 | Cyber Risk, Cybersecurity, Data Breach

The concept of a panic room is a fortified room in place in a private home or business to provide refuge or hiding from a home or business intrusion. Panic rooms tend to contain technology to contact law enforcement or medical resources, and resources to sustain basic resource needs until help arriv ....

Visual Hacking: Who’s Looking Over Your Shoulder?

November 24, 2014 | Cybersecurity, Data & Cybersecurity, Data Breach, Hacking, Privacy

I recently attended the Ponemon Institute’s Responsible Information Management (RIM) Renaissance Privacy Event. While headlines and discussion continue to focus on cybersecurity; privacy professionals also had good conversations about the basics of visual privacy. Protecting confidential informati ....

Healthcare Breaches Take Another Little Piece of My Heart

October 6, 2014 | Data Breach, Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Healthcare, PHI

I was recently in the car listening to Janis Joplin’s “Take Another Little Piece of My Heart,” and it triggered a conversation I had a while ago with a banking executive regarding the similarities and differences between financial and health data breaches. While we agreed that financial breach ....

Goodwill’s Third Party Due Diligence… “And it Makes Me Wonder”

September 23, 2014 | Data Breach, Third Party Risk

Like everyone else glued to the media outlets this past week regarding the Home Depot breach I was softly sobbing to myself “here we go again” particularly after I just made a visit and a purchase with my credit card. However, this discussion isn’t about the Home Depot breach, but rather a les ....

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