5 Cybersecurity Trends Your Organization Needs to Know: Takeaways from the Secure Miami Conference

by Hannah Grace Holladay / June 14, 2023

The future of cybersecurity is full of mystery, intrigue, and intimidating trends.  Threats loom larger every day and defending ourselves against them becomes more and more challenging.  At the Secure Miami 2023 Conference, industry leaders gathered to discuss these trends and how we can safeguard ourselves and our businesses against them.  The day covered exciting new topics like AI and ChatGBT while also touching on the importance of information security…

Lessons from the Galaxy and a New Hope for Our Future: A Look into Risk Management from Secure Miami 

by Tori Thurmond / May 16, 2023

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an ineffective risk assessment brought down an entire Empire.   It is a period of ever-evolving threats.  Hackers, striking in new and advanced ways, have made us all concerned for the future of our organizations.   During the Secure Miami Conference on May 4th, 2023, KirkpatrickPrice Founder and President, Joseph Kirkpatrick, managed to present a plan for defending against these great threats,…

SOC 2 FAQs:  A Webinar Recap 

by Tori Thurmond / March 21, 2024

SOC 2 is one of our most popular audits here at KirkpatrickPrice. We know that many of our clients need and want to fulfil SOC 2 requirements to prove their commitment to compliance and satisfy client requests. That’s why we partnered with Lightspin, a cloud security platform, to tackle some SOC 2 FAQs in our latest webinar, SOC 2 in the Cloud for SaaS Companies.  During the webinar, our President…

Notes from the Field: CIS Control 2 – Inventory and Control of Software Assets 

by Greg Halpin / June 22, 2023

Many of the clients I work with are startup companies that have amazing technologies and services but don't have mature information security programs in place. They often don't know which information security framework to follow or how to implement them. Some frameworks are either too vague or too long and detailed to be useful. That's why I recommend the CIS Controls to my clients to help them get started on…

Do Compliance Automation Tools Actually Save Time In Your Audit? 

by Tori Thurmond / January 10, 2024

Automation may seem like a simple solution to your cybersecurity needs, but at the end of the day, is it actually saving you as much time as you think it is? Many automated compliance tools claim to save you hundreds of hours in work, making your audit easy. They claim to eliminate checklists and spreadsheets, having moved everything online. Virtually, all you have to do to meet your compliance goals…