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…

Expect the Unexpected: A Recap of the BCP + DR Planning Webinar by Todd Atnip

by Hannah Grace Holladay / March 21, 2024

Unfortunately, one of the only things we can rely on in the cybersecurity world is that threats are always looming.  We know that it is a matter of when, not if, your business will undergo an attack.  Have you planned for that? Is your organization prepared to face the unexpected and still land on it’s feet? A well developed and properly tested business continuity plan (BCP) and disaster recovery (DR)…