DRI Drive

OCTOBER 2, 2023

DRI encourages Certified Professionals to actively support these valuable partner organizations. Here’s what’s coming up in your region: Information Systems Audit and […] The post Collaborative Partner News: Oct. 3, 2023 appeared first on DRI Drive.

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Solutions Review

APRIL 7, 2025

Understanding the Evolution of Ransomware Attacks Traditional ransomware attacks focused on encrypting active production data the information businesses use daily in their operations or, live data, such as customer databases, financial records, and email systems. Even more concerning, these attempts succeeded 60% of the time.

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Backup Authentication Disaster Recovery Audit 106

BMC

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Every security breach incident and response activity should be analyzed. The documentation and knowledge management activities should be designed to facilitate convenient access of information and contribution with new information in the form of reports, employee feedback or other insights generated across the organization.

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Pure Storage

APRIL 28, 2025

This concept emphasizes extensive zero-trust principles and active, real-time monitoring and automated response capabilities built into storage platforms. These include immediate account lockouts, access revocation to critical file shares, user log-offs, and even disabling of Active Directory accounts. Its fast.

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Reciprocity

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

To assure that all those parts are working as intended, you should perform a cybersecurity audit. Audits aren’t just good sense, either; many data privacy and security regulations require audits. That said, the steps for a cybersecurity audit can be long.

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Security Industry Association

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s important to promote a safe learning environment for every student and protect the teachers, staff and visitors in our schools, and SIA appreciates the many talented security professionals who are working diligently each day to enhance the safety and security of our schools and mitigate active shooter threats. More is better.

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Reciprocity

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

One essential tool that bolsters this trust is an audit of internal control over financial reporting (ICFR). At its core, an ICFR audit evaluates the operating effectiveness of a company’s internal processes and controls that safeguard its financial statements from misrepresentation, either accidental or intentional.

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Reciprocity

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

An audit of your IT systems can identify and fix those potential disruptions before they happen – and an IT audit checklist can ensure that your IT department has the necessary resources in place to keep your systems safe. What Is the Main Goal of an IT Audit Checklist?

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Reciprocity

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Any modern organization looking to navigate today’s risk environment successfully needs both strong internal controls and ongoing internal audits. This guide aims to eliminate that confusion by explaining the meaning and importance of internal controls and internal audits. What Are Internal Audits?

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Reciprocity

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Any modern organization looking to navigate today’s risk environment successfully needs both strong internal controls and ongoing internal audits. This guide aims to eliminate that confusion by explaining the meaning and importance of internal controls and internal audits. What Are Internal Audits?

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Reciprocity

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Why GRC Software is Critical for FedRAMP Compliance FedRAMP’s comprehensive requirements present several key challenges: Managing hundreds of security controls across different systems Maintaining extensive documentation and evidence Coordinating continuous monitoring activities Preparing for assessments and audits GRC software transforms these (..)

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LogisManager

MARCH 14, 2025

By enforcing SoD, organizations bridge silos between departments, ensuring that risk, compliance, audit, and operational teams work together while still maintaining proper oversight. Best Practice: If someone is responsible for implementing a control, they shouldnt also be responsible for approving or auditing it.

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Reciprocity

DECEMBER 21, 2022

If your company is a service organization and your customers trust you with their data, you may need to pass a SOC 2 (System and Organization Controls 2) audit. Compliance and certification are the goals of a SOC 2 audit. The SOC 2 compliance audit gives them that assurance. Develop a SOC 2 Audit Framework. What is SOC 2?

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Stratogrid Advisory

JANUARY 29, 2019

Not another BCM Program audit? Last Updated on May 31, 2020 by Alex Jankovic Reading Time: 4 minutes Another Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program audit. At its core, an audit is simply an assessment used to discover which areas the business will require a focus in the future.

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Stratogrid Advisory

JANUARY 29, 2019

Not another BCM Program audit? Another Business Continuity Management (BCM) Program audit. Some organizations think of audits as tedious, and often unnecessary, accounting procedures, rather than as a powerful business tool that can be used to improve the organization’s capabilities. BCM Program Audits.

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LogisManager

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Thinking Forward: Internal Audit Management for 2024 & Beyond Last Updated: February 6, 2024 As an auditor , it is your fiduciary duty to report risks across your organization. As teams are being asked to do more with less going into 2024, your audit management program is under more pressure than ever.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

MAY 19, 2023

Key activities in this stage include: Risk analysis: Conducting a comprehensive analysis of the organization’s operations to identify potential threats and assess their probability and potential impact. Externally Caused Crises These crises are triggered by external forces beyond the organization’s control.

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LogisManager

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This includes business units, departments, and individuals directly responsible for managing and executing processes and activities that generate risk. Their role is to provide oversight, guidance, and monitoring of the first line’s risk management activities.

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Risk Management Audit Management Banking 105

Reciprocity

MARCH 3, 2025

Regulatory Consequences : Beyond immediate penalties, organizations often face increased regulatory scrutiny, mandatory external audits, and enhanced ongoing monitoring requirements. Understanding Technology Requirements A robust TPRM platform should serve as a centralized hub for all vendor-related activities.

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LogisManager

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Establishing robust third-party risk management protocols—such as regular audits, continuous monitoring, and ensuring vendor compliance with cybersecurity standards—would have closed these gaps and strengthened their defenses. Boards must regularly review risk reports and engage in dynamic risk management strategies.

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LogisManager

JANUARY 14, 2025

Your team information is audit-ready at all times. Ensure that third-party vendors comply with your security standards and conduct regular audits to verify their compliance. AI can rank potential compliance issues or flag unusual activity in access permissions. Regular onboarding audits ensure everything works as intended.

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Pure Storage

JANUARY 20, 2022

By evaluating customer behavior, companies can create strategic marketing plans that target a particular customer cohort—for example, by offering personalized recommendations based on previous purchases or social media activity. With big data, companies can also identify the activities that keep current customers satisfied.

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Advertising Retail Marketing Audit 139

Zerto

JULY 6, 2023

Data Protection Delivering Real-Time Monitoring and Behavior Analysis Data protection vendors have started providing the ability to monitor data activity. Continuous Monitoring and Auditing As ransomware threats evolve, data protection vendors have responded to the need for continuous monitoring and auditing.

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Reciprocity

APRIL 8, 2025

For example, Article 30 mandates maintaining detailed records of processing activities (ROPAs), while Article 35 requires Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs) for high-risk processing. The Documentation Burden GDPR compliance demands extensive documentation across your entire data ecosystem.

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Alternative Resiliency Services Corp

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Last-minute Compliance items and Audit remediations. ​Here are two high-value low-investment end-of-year activities to keep your Business Continuity programs on track and ready to face the unexpected in 2020! Note that an Assessment is different from an Audit. ​It’s that time of year again. Closing the books.

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Bernstein Crisis Management

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

According to the Edelman survey, young adults are particularly vulnerable, with 53% endorsing hostile activism as a legitimate tool for change. Crisis communication planning including vulnerability audits, crisis protocol, message development and spokesperson training.

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Zerto

AUGUST 9, 2023

Having a provable audit trail is the primary goal of Section 404 of SOX Compliance. Section 404 – Anomaly Detection & Intelligent Insights at the Ready for Audits The Zerto Cyber Resilience Vault provides a secure audit trail by logging all activity inside the vault to keep a record.

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Reciprocity

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Organizations will need to maintain detailed documentation of all security policies and procedures, conduct annual compliance audits, and implement regular penetration testing. Response times to potential compliance issues lag behind threats, as staff struggle to maintain proper audit trails across expanding virtual platforms.

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Healthcare Audit Authentication Consulting 52

Reciprocity

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This can significantly reduce the time and effort needed during the assessment phase.

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LAN Infotech

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These are foundational tools to reduce the likelihood of an attack and show that your business is actively working to protect its data. Routine Security Audits Regularly auditing your cybersecurity defenses and conducting vulnerability assessments help ensure your systems stay secure.

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LogisManager

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Download Now Adopt the Three Lines of Defense In addition to the tactical changes that banks will need to make regarding the frequency of compliance activities, the adoption of the 3 Lines of Defense of Risk Management may also serve as an adjustment that is needed.

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LAN Infotech

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Periodically audit who has access to critical project information and adjust permissions as needed. Provide regular security training focused on identifying phishing scams, following secure password practices and recognizing suspicious activity. Year-End Action: Audit your current cybersecurity measures.

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LogisManager

JANUARY 14, 2025

The system must have security protections and log audit trails, or the company might see fines and violations. Automated alerts can tell you when there’s unusual activity so your team can get to work. They can also generate audit trails and handle data according to your industry’s regulations.

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Reciprocity

MARCH 15, 2025

Compliance teams routinely struggle with overwhelming challenges: overlapping requirements, duplicative evidence collection, constant audit fatigue, and stretched resources. Organizations typically spend thousands of hours annually on compliance activities when managing multiple frameworks separately.

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Solutions Review

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

…to analysts like Gartner … “ Harden the components of enterprise backup and recovery infrastructure against attacks by routinely examining backup application, storage and network access and comparing this against expected or baseline activity.” …to Two-thirds say securing backups and storage was addressed in recent external audits.

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Financial Services Security Backup Audit 105

Solutions Review

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Description: Archer IT & Security Risk Management enables users to document and report on IT risks and controls, security vulnerabilities, audit findings, regulatory obligations, and issues across their technology infrastructure. Platform: Archer IT & Security Risk Management. Fusion Risk Management. Platform: HighBond.

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Risk Management Management Audit Hospitality 98

PagerDuty

JANUARY 16, 2025

It gives you an auditable trail that is ready for regulator or internal reviews. Because the Operations Cloud is also an Operations Hub, PagerDuty can also take care of updating your systems of record, synchronising them with all the activity details, communication logs, and resolution steps gathered during an incident.

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Resilience Gap Analysis Financial Services Audit 59