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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…
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Hannah Grace Holladay / March 12, 2024
The United States Healthcare and Public Health (HPH) sector is facing a dramatic increase in cyber-attacks that are disrupting patient care and safety. Hospitals are facing directly targeted ransomware attacks that aim to disrupt clinical operations. According to a new study (linked below) by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), 96% of small, medium, and large sized hospitals claim they are operating with end-of-life operating systems or…
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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…
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Greg Halpin / March 7, 2024
The client I was conducting a gap analysis for had an incredibly detailed Service Provider Management Policy. It required the company compliance team to conduct due diligence on all prospective service providers, including a risk analysis of each. The policy required the compliance team to review the prospective vendor's SOC 2 audit report and research the vendor's financial stability and reputation. The compliance team was to conduct annual reviews of…
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Hannah Grace Holladay / February 28, 2024
In April 2016, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) made an important update to the attestation standards that will affect your next SOC 1 audit. Statement on Standards for Attestation Engagements (SSAE) No. 18, Attestation Standards: Clarification and Recodification provides changes to SOC 1 audits and how attestation engagements are categorized. Below, we explore the reason for this change and how the SSAE 18 affects you What is…
