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How to Offload Your Risk to a Third Party

MHA Consulting

There are two main types of risk transference: 1) buying insurance and 2) hiring a third-party vendor to perform an activity and passing on to them the risks associated with that activity. The Promise and Pitfalls of Insurance Insurance is the most frequently used and easiest method of risk transference.

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How to Create a Data Breach Response Team

Pure Storage

This role could be an in-house team, outsourced, or hybrid. If outsourced or hybrid, a designated employee should act as a liaison. Legal experts help you understand the legal obligations, potential conflicts, and liabilities of your business, and can provide input when drafting policies and procedures. Information Security (InfoSec).

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Operational Risk Management

MHA Consulting

They include: Process and procedural robustness and integrity People, skills and training Insurance and self-insurance The supply chain, outsourcing, and inherited risk Infrastructure, systems and telecommunications Physical and information security Operational risk is recognized as being distinct from market risk and credit or trade risks.

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6 Signs Your Business Needs a vCIO

NexusTek

A popular alternative is a virtual CIO (vCIO), an outsourced resource of expertise, strategic planning, and leadership who works on a part-time or as-needed basis. But with annual salaries averaging over $300,000 1 , a full-time CIO is impractical for most small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs). Not sure if a vCIO is right for your business?

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Risk Management as a Career: A Guide for BCM Professionals

MHA Consulting

They include process and procedural robustness and integrity; people, skills, and training; insurance and self-insurance; the supply chain, outsourcing, and inherent risk; infrastructure, systems, and telecommunications; and physical and information security. Reducing risk. Transferring risk. Accepting risk.

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The Outrage or Lack Thereof: Lessons Learned from the CrowdStrike Outage

Fusion Risk Management

The Third-Party Threat There seems to have been a lot of confusion around how to classify this incident; some see it as a digital or cyber issue, attempting to claim on their cyber insurance. 13 It speaks to the fact that third parties and Operations, Security, and IT teams are now all intrinsically linked. It doesn’t work.” 3 billion 12.

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5 Ways to Minimize the Cost of a Ransomware Attack 

Pure Storage

There are outsourced IT and cybersecurity that may need to be deployed. Increased insurance premiums (or possible cancellation). Confirm what your cyber insurance covers—and what it doesn’t. There are the extra people-hours that must be devoted to reassuring customers. There are shareholder lawsuits the business must defend.