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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

A key part of preparing for a security event is ensuring you have the people and the technology you need to help you recover as quickly as possible. The expertise of a legal counsel on your emergency response team is invaluable during a security event. This role could be an in-house team, outsourced, or hybrid.

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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. Budgeting for IT is about more than just dollars; it’s about identifying tech spending priorities that support your business’ strategic goals and security.

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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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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

For example, in an effort to keep flights running, many airports switched to manual processes; Delhi wrote out departure gate details on a whiteboard, and Gatwick switched to manual security checks on boarding passes. 13 It speaks to the fact that third parties and Operations, Security, and IT teams are now all intrinsically linked.

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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). Adopt tiered security architectures. Confirm what your cyber insurance covers—and what it doesn’t. There are the extra people-hours that must be devoted to reassuring customers.