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

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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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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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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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

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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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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LAN Infotech

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Year-End Action: Evaluate your current collaboration tools and ensure they’re up-to-date and well-integrated for seamless team interactions in the New Year. Periodically audit who has access to critical project information and adjust permissions as needed. Year-End Action: Audit your current cybersecurity measures.

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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. By evaluating the code’s characteristics, such as its encryption algorithms, heuristic analysis can detect ransomware strains that do not match known signatures.

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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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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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Reciprocity

DECEMBER 17, 2024

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

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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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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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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Implement audits and monitoring Periodic reviews of IT infrastructure, policies, and practices can help identify gaps in compliance or controls. Continuously monitor system logs to detect unusual activity, such as failed login attempts or unauthorized data transfers. Avoid making changes that could erase forensic evidence.

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Pure Storage

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Assessing Ransomware Risk with the Pure Storage Security Assessment by Pure Storage Blog Summary The Pure Storage Security Assessment is a comprehensive evaluation tool that helps organizations identify and address vulnerabilities in their storage environment and offers actionable steps to help them reduce exposure to threats.

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Pure Storage

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Risk Management and Assessment Leaders must evaluate potential risks to the organization and prioritize resources to mitigate them. A security-conscious culture ensures that employees at all levels understand the importance of cybersecurity and actively participate in protecting the organization from potential threats.

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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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BMC

APRIL 28, 2025

Depending on the typical activity in your IT department, your CAB may meet as often as twice weekly. How a Change Advisory Board makes decisions A Change Advisory Board typically makes decisions in three major areas, which well review below: Standard change requests Emergency changes Previously-executed change audits Standard change requests.

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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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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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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Tim Golden, Compliance Scorecard Intensified Regulatory Enforcement and Fines Regulatory bodies are expected to increase enforcement of cybersecurity laws, such as CMMC and FTC 3.14, with a focus on stricter audits and leveraging mechanisms like whistleblowing. Cyber Liability insurance will increasingly require a privacy audit.

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everbridge

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Technology allows for the optimization and automation of appropriate incident response, including early warning systems, standard operating procedures, escalation policies, best practices, and response team and device activations. ANALYZE – Evaluate actions taken and understand patterns to improve disaster risk reduction.

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Pure Storage

MAY 2, 2024

Continuous monitoring: Zero trust continuously monitors network activity and user behavior in real-time. Any suspicious activity or deviations from normal behavior can trigger alerts or automated security responses. Monitoring is limited to the perimeter, not internal activities. But monitoring the perimeter alone is not enough.

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FS-ISAC

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

One of my main duties included briefing the Commander on the latest research/threat intel on cyber domain adversary activity. I quickly realized I had trained him to ‘go to his happy place’ and ignore me because I was briefing him on generic threat activity so it was not anything he would ever make a decision on.

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Reciprocity

APRIL 30, 2025

Integrated Governance Structure Future-proof GRC programs break down traditional silos between compliance, risk management, audit, security, and operations. Automation of Routine Processes Manual compliance activities are not only inefficient but also inherently inflexible.

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Reciprocity

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Internal controls assure the audit committee, board of directors, and senior management that the company’s financial reporting is reliable and compliant with applicable laws and regulations. Multiple checks and balances deter employees from fudging financial information and indulging in fraudulent activities and accounting behaviors.

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Reciprocity

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Internal controls assure the audit committee, board of directors, and senior management that the company’s financial reporting is reliable and compliant with applicable laws and regulations. Multiple checks and balances deter employees from fudging financial information and indulging in fraudulent activities and accounting behaviors.

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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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FS-ISAC

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

You can hire a professional audit firm to benchmark the bucket against peer buckets. To fill the bucket, we must shift our mindset away from inch-deep, mile-wide program sweeps and instead focus on laser-targeted specific attack scenarios that are supported by active threat intelligence. Or you could fill it with water.

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Pure Storage

AUGUST 12, 2024

Evaluating your data storage solutions against NIST 2.0 This involves evaluating hardware, software, and network infrastructure for weaknesses that could be exploited by cybercriminals. Impact analysis: Evaluate the potential impact of data breaches on business operations and reputation. Essentially, the appearance of NIST 2.0

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Reciprocity

OCTOBER 8, 2024

That said, if your business is a service provider, you should consider investing in the technical audit required for a SOC 2 report anyway. SOC 2 audits were developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to provide assurance over a service provider’s cybersecurity controls. What Is SOC 2?

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Reciprocity

OCTOBER 8, 2024

That said, if your business is a service provider, you should consider investing in the technical audit required for a SOC 2 report anyway. SOC 2 audits were developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) to provide assurance over a service provider’s cybersecurity controls. What Is SOC 2?

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LogisManager

MAY 9, 2023

They evaluate their vendor and partner communities to identify the third parties they depend on the most and map them to the business risks, controls, and testing that rely on them. For example, SVB had a Moody’s A1 issuer rating and KPMG signed off on SVB’s bank’s audit just 14 days before it declared bankruptcy.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

Deduplication—eliminating duplicate copies of data—also helps organizations limit their attack surface by establishing policies, technologies and auditing that reduces the data footprint. Automation tools and fully autonomous data management also have the benefit of freeing up IT staff to focus on more strategic and transformational activity.

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