How to Fine-Tune Performance Management and Transform Your Organization

Protiviti’s Jim DeLoach discusses one of the more pervasive issues falling within senior management’s and the board’s purview. Performance relates to virtually everything important: execution of the strategy, the customer experience, investor expectations, executive compensation and even senior management and the board itself. Accurately measuring it is critical. Performance management is so integral to the… Continue reading How to Fine-Tune Performance Management and Transform Your Organization

Credit Card Compromise Up 212% as Hackers Eye Financial Sector

Financial services firms saw upticks in credential leaks and credit card compromise as cybercriminals go where the money is. More than one-quarter of all malware attacks target the financial services sector, which has seen dramatic spikes in credential theft, compromised credit cards, and malicious mobile apps as cybercriminals seek new ways to generate illicit profits.… Continue reading Credit Card Compromise Up 212% as Hackers Eye Financial Sector

5 Steps to Prepare for California’s Consumer Privacy Act

Cavirin‘s Anupam Sahai discusses the factors that determine whether the CCPA impacts an organization, what the requirements are if so and what action you can take to prepare for it. Just when you thought you had a handle on GDPR, businesses have a new legislation to worry about: the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). The CCPA stipulates that… Continue reading 5 Steps to Prepare for California’s Consumer Privacy Act

FEMA Supply Chain Resilience Guide

Strategic Overview Disasters disrupt preexisting networks of demand and supply. Quickly reestablishing flows of water, food, pharmaceuticals, medical goods, fuel, and other crucial commodities is almost always in the immediate interest of survivors and longer-term recovery. When there has been catastrophic damage to critical infrastructure, such as the electrical grid and telecommunications systems, there will… Continue reading FEMA Supply Chain Resilience Guide

Report: Unknown Data Breach Exposes 80 Million US Households

vpnMentor’s research team discovered a hack affecting 80 million American households. Known hacktivists Noam Rotem and Ran Locar discovered an unprotected database impacting up to 65% of US households. Hosted by a Microsoft cloud server, the 24 GB database includes the number of people living in each household with their full names, their marital status, income… Continue reading Report: Unknown Data Breach Exposes 80 Million US Households

Emergency Personnel Taught De-Escalation Techniques at Week-Long Program

(TNS) – Twenty-three men and women from Cambria, Somerset and Bedford counties graduated on Friday after a week of training by the Laurel Highlands Region Police Crisis Intervention Team. The program, held at Pennsylvania Highlands Community College in Richland Township, included classes on suicide prevention, mental illness, strategies to de-escalate situations, dealing with juveniles and… Continue reading Emergency Personnel Taught De-Escalation Techniques at Week-Long Program

The Biggest Barrier To IT Transformation Is People

A firm’s people play essential roles in all stages of IT transformation. For companies at the beginner level of maturity, employees must come together to connect the organization. Once the organization is united, it must adopt customer-centric principles to become adaptable and reach intermediate maturity. To reach an advanced maturity level, the organization must again… Continue reading The Biggest Barrier To IT Transformation Is People

ALL ABOUT PANDEMIC CATASTROPHE BONDS

In previous articles, we discussed how communicable diseases and pandemics are (or are not) addressed in personal and commercialinsurance policies. Today, we’ll talk about pandemic catastrophe bonds. The Ebola outbreak between 2014 and 2016 ultimately resulted in more than 28,000 cases and 11,000 deaths, most of them concentrated in the West African countries of Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone. The… Continue reading ALL ABOUT PANDEMIC CATASTROPHE BONDS

A Rear-View Look at GDPR: Compliance Has No Brakes

With a year of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation under our belt, what have we learned? There is no denying the impact of the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which went into effect on May 25, 2018. We were all witness — or victim — to the flurry of updated privacy policy emails… Continue reading A Rear-View Look at GDPR: Compliance Has No Brakes

Why Security and Compliance Have a Permanent Seat at the Boardroom Table

Security is a top concern at all levels of the organization, but especially at the board level and C-suite. SoftwareONE’s Mike Fitzgerald champions a “security-first” mentality and discusses the implications of failing to meet industry standards and regulations. Instances of lost intellectual property (IP) due to data breaches are gaining attention in the mainstream press… Continue reading Why Security and Compliance Have a Permanent Seat at the Boardroom Table