We know hackers are getting more sophisticated. Cyber attacks and data breaches make the news on a regular basis, and the costs involved are staggering. But as organizations work to shield themselves from the growing threat of outside hackers, failing...

Lifetime Achievement Awards Catherine Allen (Founder and Chairperson of Shared Assessments) was honored to present these awards “to two extremely deserving recipients” at the 2022 Third Party Risk Summit. Ms. Allen noted Security Magazine called Dr. Larry Ponemon (Founder, Ponemon...

Catherine A. Allen, Founder, Chairman and former CEO of Shared Assessments, kicked off the 2022 Third Party Risk Summit with a warm welcome while noting “It’s really a strange time. It’s been a strange time ever since Covid started, and...

Applying a dose of hindsight to the Conference Board’s C-Suite Outlook 2022 survey report seems to reveal major gaps. Surveying 1,614 C-suite executives (including 917 CEOs globally), the report reflects “C-Suite Outlook,” exploring external stress points faced by business leaders....

One year ago, a Texas A&M educator predicted a trend that now taxes nearly every third party risk management program, whether they know it or not. “The great resignation is coming,” Texas A&M Associate Professor of Management Anthony Klotz warned...

Another ransomware attack is garnering a lot of attention. Not because the perpetrators want an astonishing amount of crypto, or because they’re threatening to disrupt commerce across an entire country, but because the threat actors went from infecting the victim’s...

Freedom Of Tweet In case you have not heard the news….the world’s richest person and self-declared “free speech absolutist” has reached a deal to buy Twitter for approximately $44 Billion. Elon Musk To Acquire Twitter In a statement announcing the...

Automated brute force attacks, also known as automated threats, are growing increasingly sophisticated. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) currently lists 21 different methods of automated threats used by cybercriminals to hack into user accounts, ranging from CAPTCHA Defeat,...

We tend to think of the internet as mostly existing in the ether or “cyberspace,” but the online systems we depend on are tied to physical structures. And the physical side of your technology brings its own set of risks....

Every April, we mark the anniversary of the birth of the modern environmental movement: Earth Day. The first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, "was a day for learning and expressing concern, not for protesting — a big news event, but one with...

The geopolitical impact of ESG (environmental, social, and governance) has been out of the spotlight. The recent Russia-Ukraine crisis has changed that reality. In our recent Russia-Ukraine Conflict: Geopolitical ESG Fallout Webinar panelists explored the short and long-term consequences of...

If a group of risk professionals and their third party partners wound up at a karaoke bar at a certain hour, they might select a classic Stones tune for a heartfelt duet: “My back is broad, but it’s a-hurting,” the...