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“Prepare for” an Audit or “We are Ready” for an Audit – Big Difference!

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Audit Challenges. Audits by a CE are evidence-based. When a client’s Compliance Officer announces a site visit to a RIM provider for the purpose of a compliance audit, expectations are that appropriate documentation is currently in place and readily accessible at the time of the visit. Audit Focus.

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Planning to Reduce Crisis Overload

Bernstein Crisis Management

By engaging in what we call a vulnerability audit , businesses can gain a deeper understanding of the potential risks they face. This can be achieved through social media listening, media monitoring, customer feedback analysis, and other relevant tools. This assessment serves as the foundation for targeted crisis planning.

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Change Healthcare’s 2024 Data Breach: Key Risk Management Lessons

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Once the breach occurred, it spread rapidly across social media and news outlets, exposing internal failures and rippling outward to affect the broader healthcare ecosystem. Regular internal audits and board-level oversight would have identified and resolved deficiencies earlier in the process.

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Crisis Management Explained: A Comprehensive Guide

Bernstein Crisis Management

Communication and coordination: Ensuring clear and timely communication with all relevant stakeholders, including employees, customers, suppliers, authorities, and the media. Externally Caused Crises These crises are triggered by external forces beyond the organization’s control.

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Inflation, Job Anxiety, and Grievance: A Recipe for Civil Unrest in 2025

Bernstein Crisis Management

The findings reveal an unprecedented lack of trust in governments, business leaders, and the media, with distrust tied to economic inequality and a pervasive sense of societal unfairness. Crisis communication planning including vulnerability audits, crisis protocol, message development and spokesperson training.

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Brand Crisis Management: Protecting Your Reputation

Bernstein Crisis Management

Such proactive approaches could involve consistent brand audits, thorough media training for spokespeople, and establishing open channels of communication with stakeholders. This means not only having a game plan for when things go awry but also adopting measures that preemptively mitigate risks.

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4 Questions IT Managers Can Ask to Strengthen Data Backup and Resiliency

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The 3-2-1 rule is a simple, but vital practice: maintain three copies of your data on two different media, with one copy stored offsite, encrypted, and offline. Audits also help to ID what’s being stored and what is no longer needed. Opt for secure storage of local backups on portable hardware-encrypted external devices.

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