Around the world, many businesses like yours have benefited from adopting third-party vendors or service providers. Either as a small business or a giant corporation, third-party vendors give room for your organization to focus on its highest value activities while other aspects are outsourced.
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What to Look for in a FAIR Assessment Partner
Performing a factor analysis of information risk (FAIR) is an important proactive security measure. The assessment looks at the security controls and potential vulnerabilities in the network’s cybersecurity framework. Identifying these threats before a breach occurs will save businesses money and time in fines and penalties.
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Top Challenges to Implementing Third-Party Risk Management
Business always involves some level of risk. Any organization that avoids risk is being too conservative, hereby, limiting their potential for growth. Organizations have traditionally viewed risk as something that has to be avoided, and they spend significant resources to secure critical data and systems.
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How Many CIP Standards Are There?
Without the foundation of well-thought standards and procedures to protect your company, you are putting it at risk. For some companies, it can be difficult to figure out which standard is the best for them. Luckily the North American Electric Reliability Corp. (NERC) provides standards that help with exactly that. It helps you prepare for any possible cyber threat coming your way. And you do not have to struggle to understand what each standard asks of you.
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Why a FAIR Assessment can Lower Your Cyber Risk
As IT departments around the world modernize, hackers are also modernizing and finding new points of entry into what used to be fully secure systems. To combat these threats, Jack Jones and other cybersecurity experts developed the Factor Analysis of Information Risk (FAIR) assessment.
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How Privacy Shield Certification Protects Your Brand
The EU US Privacy Shield is the latest in data protection frameworks to manifest since the implementation of the GDPR. In an agreement between Europe and the United States, to foster positive transatlantic trade, the framework has been developed to facilitate the easier transfer of personal data from the EU to the US.
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Top 5 Ways COVID-19 Will Change Cybersecurity
The COVID-19 global pandemic has already changed the way business is done. Face-to-face interactions are rare. Instead, now most meetings are conducted online or via the telephone. Consumers are purchasing more online than in brick-and-mortar stores and remote employees are now the “new norm”.
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Everything You Need to Know About Data Center Security Standards
A data center is a dedicated space within a building or a group of buildings used to house computer and storage systems. The network systems in a data center are for data processing and distribution. Data centers deliver essential services such as data storage backup and recovery, data management, and networking.
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Top 5 Industries that Need Privacy Shield Certification
When thinking about whether your company would benefit from Privacy Shield certification the most important question to answer is: is my company under the jurisdiction of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) or the Department of Transport (DOT)? If the answer is yes, then the Privacy Shield could be of real benefit to your organization when dealing with the transatlantic transfer of personal data from the European Union to the U.S.
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Pen Test Certification Process: Steps to Follow
Just as schools and workplaces test fire alarm systems throughout the year, companies implement penetration testing, or pen testing, to confirm that the security protocols sufficiently protect the network, systems, and facilities to the greatest extent. Pen testing isn’t just a means of bolstering shareholder confidence or fulfilling industry standards; rather, it’s also a way of preventing attacks through a proactive security policy. Looking to learn more about the pen test certification process? Our experts can help. Read on to learn more now!