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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Solutions Review

DECEMBER 12, 2024

In an era defined by rapid innovation and heightened cybersecurity threats, staying ahead requires insights from those who build, implement, and innovate at the cutting edge of these technologies. Cyber Liability insurance will increasingly require a privacy audit. This approach could prove counterproductive.

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Zerto

MARCH 5, 2025

The National Institute of Standards and Technology provides one of the most widely recognized cybersecurity frameworks. offers guidance to industry, government agencies, and other organizations to manage cybersecurity risks, promoting flexibility for organizations to tailor the framework to their needs. NISTs CSF 2.0

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Solutions Review

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Description: Apptega is a cybersecurity and compliance management platform that makes it easy for users to access, build, manage, and report their cybersecurity and compliance programs. Description: AuditBoard is a cloud-based GRC offering that includes a suite of risk, audit, and compliance tools. Platform: Apptega.

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Reciprocity

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In this article we will define automated risk management and explore how risk assessment tools can help you bolster your cybersecurity through automated risk management processes. Examples include cybersecurity risk assessments, financial risk analyses, and environmental risk studies. What is automated risk management?

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Reciprocity

OCTOBER 8, 2024

In this article we will define automated risk management and explore how risk assessment tools can help you bolster your cybersecurity through automated risk management processes. Examples include cybersecurity risk assessments, financial risk analyses, and environmental risk studies. What is automated risk management?

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The Morning Breach

JANUARY 8, 2021

The best thing for you to do as a business owner is to do annual checks and balances on your partners or even the internal staff, and you achieve this with a third-party security audit. In today’s world of cyber security, it’s not a threat of you’re not doing your job.

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Reciprocity

APRIL 4, 2022

Security risk assessments are essential not just for cybersecurity but also for regulatory compliance. Audit risk. Information security and cybersecurity risks often bubble to the top in a world connected with technology, uut you would be remiss if you only focused on technology-related risks. Credit risk. Compliance risk.

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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. Many companies now expect SOC 2 compliance from their service providers, and having a SOC 2 report demonstrates a seriousness about cybersecurity that your sales prospects will find attractive.

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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. Many companies now expect SOC 2 compliance from their service providers, and having a SOC 2 report demonstrates a seriousness about cybersecurity that your sales prospects will find attractive.

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Fusion Risk Management

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Yes, there are some aspects of technology and data protection that fall within the parameters of privacy and cybersecurity laws. Operational resilience – like cybersecurity and corporate compliance – is everyone’s responsibility. Ability to Procure Cyber Insurance. Lead with a Top-Down and Bottom-Up Approach.

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Reciprocity

MARCH 3, 2025

Beyond these fines, costs multiply quickly: breach investigations, patient notification and credit monitoring, cybersecurity improvements, increased insurance premiums, and lost revenue from disrupted operations. The ripple effects impact lab result processing, medical imaging, and insurance claim submissions.

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FS-ISAC

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

You can hire a professional audit firm to benchmark the bucket against peer buckets. While “close enough” works in asset management for financial inventory, it can quickly prove useless in cybersecurity. Armed with a clearly articulated and focused mission, your cybersecurity team can turn to control testing.

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Reciprocity

MARCH 24, 2022

Such risks could affect your business’ cybersecurity, regulatory compliance, business continuity, and organizational reputation. It encompasses controls for cybersecurity, information technology, data security, and business resiliency. Cybersecurity. Cybersecurity risk is one of the biggest concerns with third parties.

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Pure Storage

MAY 13, 2024

Engage with the reality of the new threat landscape CISOs and their teams clearly have plenty to do, but there’s an essential task to add to the list: instituting new policies and procedures around procurement, auditing, and monitoring of third-party providers. Tame SaaS sprawl Every additional application is a potential attack vector.

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LogisManager

MAY 9, 2023

Here is why: In my 18 years as CEO of LogicManager, I have observed a pattern that for every corporate mishap, cybersecurity breach, corporate fraud, or non-compliance finding, experts within the company attempted unsuccessfully to escalate their concerns six months or more prior to the mishap. This is GRC at its finest.

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Reciprocity

APRIL 4, 2022

So it is for houses and buildings – and the same principle is just as true for cybersecurity. Hence cybersecurity risk management is crucial to prevent and mitigate cyber threats. DRP is the active piece of the cybersecurity puzzle, and is an imperative for every organization. What is Digital Risk Protection?

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Reciprocity

OCTOBER 7, 2024

However, in cybersecurity, you need to update it to “if you build it, they will come, but they won’t get in.” Due diligence in vendor management requires you to maintain that security-first approach and find organizations that also take cybersecurity seriously. The old(ish) saying goes, “if you build it, they will come.”

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Pure Storage

MARCH 25, 2024

Specifically, these have come from the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC), and the National Cybersecurity Strategy (NCS) from the White House. Audit and reporting: While OR regulatory programs in the U.S.

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Reciprocity

DECEMBER 27, 2022

This allows you to strengthen cybersecurity, reduce uncertainty, cut costs, and improve business decision-making. Risk management refers to a holistic framework that allows the organization to identify, assess, control, and minimize all its risks: financial, reputational, regulatory, strategic, operational, transactional, and cybersecurity.

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Reciprocity

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Such valuable data creates immense cybersecurity risks in healthcare. The pain is felt by the healthcare organization when a vendor has an outage because of ransomware or another cybersecurity intrusion. Despite HIPAA regulations, cybersecurity attacks and data breaches targeting healthcare remain a severe and increasing threat.

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BMC

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Its latest iteration, COBIT 2019 , has revamped parts of its framework while offering much-needed updates that accounts for ever-present cybersecurity threats and the incorporation of Agile and DevOps practices. ISACA stands for the Information Systems Audit and Control Association. What is ISACA? What are the benefits of COBIT?

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Reciprocity

AUGUST 24, 2022

Organizations typically bought insurance to avoid the losses these risks could cause, thus “transferring” the risk to the insurance company. 2007-2012): Audit management, enterprise, and operational risk management, compliance beyond financial controls, and more. GRC 4.0: (2018-present): Automated GRC.

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Reciprocity

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

There are many different types of risks, such as operational risks, financial risks, or strategic risks; as well as others including reputational, regulatory, or cybersecurity risk. Not only can an integrated risk management program save you money by avoiding business disruptions; it can also help your accounting team come audit time.

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Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Episode 79: Understanding Ransomware Vanessa is joined by Brian Kirk, director of cybersecurity for Elliott Davis, LLC, a Southeast-based accounting and consulting firm. Small businesses are strongly advised to set up offsite data backups, implement audit logging, purchase cyber insurance, and devise an incident response plan.

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Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Episode 79: Understanding Ransomware Vanessa is joined by Brian Kirk, director of cybersecurity for Elliott Davis, LLC, a Southeast-based accounting and consulting firm. Small businesses are strongly advised to set up offsite data backups, implement audit logging, purchase cyber insurance, and devise an incident response plan.

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Business Resilience Decoded

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Episode 79: Understanding Ransomware Vanessa is joined by Brian Kirk, director of cybersecurity for Elliott Davis, LLC, a Southeast-based accounting and consulting firm. Small businesses are strongly advised to set up offsite data backups, implement audit logging, purchase cyber insurance, and devise an incident response plan.

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Reciprocity

AUGUST 15, 2022

But as more companies use technology across all parts of the enterprise and more compliance requirements focus on cybersecurity, IT security is becoming an increasingly central part of the CMS. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. Regular audits of the compliance program. Compliance Audit. What is a Compliance Program?

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Solutions Review

JUNE 16, 2023

This is critical for compliance audits and proving disaster resilience. Taking on the Shared Responsibility Model There are two key threats to data resiliency in the cloud—the misconception that your cloud or SaaS provider will ‘automatically’ safeguard your data, and thinking that cybersecurity is the same as data security.

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Solutions Review

MARCH 31, 2023

Backups are an essential component of several functions in the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. Specifically, backups relate to the Recover function, which involves restoring any services that were compromised in a cybersecurity incident. However, backups fail to provide protection from data theft with no chance of recovery.

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Reciprocity

MARCH 28, 2022

Your enterprise risk management (ERM) program – one that encompasses all aspects of risk management and risk response in all business processes, including cybersecurity, finance, human resources, risk management audit , privacy, compliance, and natural disasters – should involve strategic, high-level risk management decision-making.

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LogisManager

MAY 20, 2021

That’s why insurance premiums are increasing exponentially for those organizations that cannot provide evidence of an effective ERM program that has strong controls and a robust Incident Response program. The less prepared you are when responding to an incident, the more likely you’ll be forced into paying ransom.

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Reciprocity

DECEMBER 19, 2022

When your business does commit misconduct or suffers some unfortunate incident (say, a cybersecurity breach), regulators will examine your compliance program to see whether the business was making a good-faith effort to avoid those events. Set up a mechanism for monitoring and auditing. Elements of a Strong Compliance Program.

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Reciprocity

AUGUST 18, 2022

Your ERM program should encompass all aspects of risk management and response in all business processes, including cybersecurity, finance, human resources, risk management audit , privacy, compliance, and natural disasters. Passing or sharing the risk via insurance, joint venture, or another arrangement.

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Reciprocity

AUGUST 24, 2022

As you bring new vendors into your organization’s orbit, you will need assurance that those third parties continuously comply with the cybersecurity controls outlined in the service level agreements you’ve established. Cybersecurity. Begin by determining your organization’s tolerance for cybersecurity risk.

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Security Industry Association

APRIL 7, 2022

Strict privacy laws and regulations, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), are important considerations when deploying and financing security solutions in the health care sector. Unfortunately, the challenges do not end here. Protecting Patients and Privacy. Protecting Patient Privacy.

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Reciprocity

AUGUST 17, 2022

New technologies, increasing digitization, and evolving customer demands create risks that can disrupt operations, weaken cybersecurity, and harm the organization’s reputation or financial position – and above all, leave the organization unable to achieve its business objectives. Cybersecurity events, such as data breaches.

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