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…

Turning Audit Into Enablement

by Hannah Grace Holladay / May 7, 2024

Audits are hard, but when done well, they are always beneficial.    We understand if you don’t believe us.  We know that audits are overwhelming and complicated.  They can feel like daunting tasks that will only create fines or more work for your organization.  But that doesn’t have to be the case.  There are many benefits of an audit, and even more when you have a partner to help you.   If…

Building a Cyber-Resilient Culture: A Webinar Recap

by Tori Thurmond / March 21, 2024

We recently had the opportunity to team up with CyberCX for our webinar, “Building a Cyber-Resilient Culture.” During the webinar, our President and Founder, Joseph Kirkpatrick, and the US Director of Digital Forensics, Chris Pogue discussed how company culture can lead to cyber resilience.   If you weren’t able to attend the webinar but would like to hear Joseph and Chris’s entire conversation, you can listen to the full recording here.…

Security Awareness Training Compliance Requirements: SOC 2, PCI, HIPAA, and More

by Hannah Grace Holladay / August 9, 2023

Regularly training your employees is a critical component of compliance and security in your organization. The risk of an employee not understanding the potential security threats facing them as a frontline target could be just the opening that an attacker needs to create a security breach. This is why many information security frameworks and regulations, like SOC 2, PCI DSS, and HIPAA, have security awareness training compliance requirements. What are those requirements? What…

Failure is a good thing.

by Hannah Grace Holladay / June 13, 2023

We are wired to avoid failure.  We often do everything in our power to make sure we will succeed at whatever endeavor we embark on and can even become terrified at the possibility of failure. The same is true of an audit – everyone starts their audit journey hoping they won’t fail.  “Are we going to fail?” is such a common question amongst our clients, and we understand that feeling.…