Expertise as Social Capital: 4 Unexpected Ways that Expert Access Will Put You Ahead of the Game 

by Abigail Raley / March 21, 2024

When I started working at KirkpatrickPrice, I was only a month out of my MFA program. I had been studying poetry for two years, and I was brand new to the cybersecurity auditing world. In fact, I still am. I have questions every day about how to best support our clients, and with the threat landscape constantly evolving, it seems that there are always new problems to solve.  KirkpatrickPrice’s founder…

A Bigger, Badder Villain: How to Face the Advanced Threats of AI

by Tori Thurmond / March 21, 2024

Every year in January, the KirkpatrickPrice team gathers in Tampa, FL for one of our biannual team meetings. This week is always a fun one where we get to reunite with our long-distance coworkers and discuss our goals for the new year. This January was no different. We had a great first week of 2024, but by Friday, some of us didn’t want the fun to end. We drove a…

Barbie vs. Oppenheimer: What Barbenheimer Can Teach Us about Risk Management

by Tori Thurmond / March 21, 2024

If you were paying any attention to pop culture last summer, chances are you caught wind of two of the biggest movies of the year being released on the same day last July. Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer broke box-office records as movie-lovers flocked to the theaters to see what all of the commotion was about. Some even decided to see both films on the same day, a…

5 Risk Management Best Practices for Organizational Management

by Tori Thurmond / February 27, 2024

Every day, we continuously evaluate risks and decide how to prevent them from adversely impacting us. We foresee the possibility of something happening to our car, hence we buy insurance. We know the statistics of home break-ins, so we set up an alarm system and replace the locks. We see the forecast for rain and bring an umbrella when we leave the house. Similarly, every business organization also has risks…

How to Complete a PCI Audit in 7 Steps

by Hannah Grace Holladay / February 23, 2024

To protect the security of cardholder data, the PCI Security Standards Council requires organizations that work with payment cards to maintain compliance with the PCI DSS. If you’re an entity that stores, processes, or transmits cardholder data, it’s imperative to regularly conduct a PCI audit to ensure compliance. Below, we will define common PCI requirements and discuss the seven steps of conducting a PCI audit. What Is a PCI Audit?…