3 Reasons to Stop Hesitating and Complete your SSAE 16 Audit

by Sarah Harvey / December 16, 2022

With the compliance landscape rapidly changing, it’s important to stay up to date with current standards to gain trust and respect from your clients. If you’ve been considering getting an SSAE 16 Audit, but keep putting it off, what are you waiting for? Here are 3 Reasons to stop hesitating and start your SSAE 16 Audit today: 1. To gain a competitive advantage Completing an SSAE 16 allows you to…

Anthem Data Breach: Recent Hack Affects Millions

by Sarah Harvey / December 16, 2022

Joseph R. Swedish, CEO of Anthem Inc., one of the largest healthcare providers in the US, announced Wednesday, that despite efforts to appropriately safeguard their information, they suffered a major cyberattack. This attack is said to have affected as many as 80 million people. According to Anthem, this attack compromised both patient and employee information, names, birthdays, medical ID’s, Social Security numbers, street addresses, email addresses, and employment and income…

5 Steps to Mastering a Risk Assessment

by Sarah Harvey / June 14, 2023

Performing a Risk Assessment is a critical component of any Information Security Program. It’s mandated by several frameworks (SSAE 16, SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FISMA). In order to comply with those frameworks, your organization has to complete a risk assessment, and then assess and address the risks by implementing security controls. The Risk Assessment process is a constantly moving and evolving process for an organization. So, where…

Practice Security Awareness in the Workplace on Data Privacy Day

by Sarah Harvey / December 16, 2022

Did you know it’s National Data Privacy Day? That’s right, Data Privacy is so important these days it gets its own national holiday. Here at KirkpatrickPrice, we highly value the privacy of our clients’ data and encourage them to educate their own employees about practicing security awareness in the workplace, as well as at home. Already in 2015 we are seeing security breaches daily in the headlines. What better day…

5 Information Security Tips You Need for 2015

by Sarah Harvey / December 16, 2022

Download and share this Infographic here. For more information about how KirkpatrickPrice can assist you in meeting your compliance objectives, contact us today. Text Recap: Information Security Tips for 2015 The New Year is here, and if Information Security trends from last year are at all telling, 2015 will be a very important year to pay close attention to the security of your sensitive data. Here are 5 Information Security…