Combining SOC 1 and PCI Audits

by Sarah Harvey / June 13, 2023

When a breach occurs in the financial services industry, it costs the compromised organization $210 per breached record – which is why we get a lot of questions about SOC 1 and PCI audits from organizations in the financial services industry. How can you protect your data from threats? Should your company complete both audits? Are you able to consolidate multiple audits into one project? KirkpatrickPrice has developed the Online…

Mistakes Businesses Make When Preparing for Pandemics like Coronavirus

by Sarah Harvey / December 16, 2022

The Global Impact of COVID-19 It’s been nearly two months since China confirmed an outbreak of a novel coronavirus, COVID-19, in Wuhan. With over 93,000 confirmed cases reported globally, including more than 200 in the United States, countries across the globe have started to feel the impact of the virus. Industries like manufacturing, farming, travel, healthcare, finance, banking, retail, and technology have all taken a hit from the global outbreak,…

Stay Secure With These Intrusion Detection and Protection Techniques

by Sarah Harvey / June 14, 2023

Does your organization have robust processes and procedures in place to identify and contain threats in your environment? Are you confident that these processes can prevent security incidents and data breaches caused by common attack methods like malware, ransomware, DoS attacks, phishing attacks, and more? Establishing a strong intrusion detection and prevention system (IDPS) – although they are sometimes separately referred to as intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention…

Why Fintech Should Focus on Availability

by Sarah Harvey / June 13, 2023

Robinhood, an investing and trading platform, experienced every startup’s nightmare: service outages at a crucial time, leaving frustrated customers unable to trade. TechCrunch explains, “It’s perhaps the worst-timed bug in the history of the seven-year-old company, because it coincided with one of the biggest single-day gains in the history of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and huge gains on the Nasdaq, as well. In all, markets gained $1.1 trillion in…

Writing a Change Management Policy

by Sarah Harvey / December 16, 2022

Policies and procedures are nothing new in the world of information security. One of the best things you can do to secure your environment is to develop detailed policies to keep your employees educated on the proper security processes that need to be implemented within your organization. Writing a change management policy is just one step you can take to better secure your organizational and IT systems. Every organization focuses…