Lessons from the Galaxy and a New Hope for Our Future: A Look into Risk Management from Secure Miami 

by Tori Thurmond / May 12th, 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,…

The Audit Expert’s Guide To Conducting An Effective Risk Assessment

by Hannah Grace Holladay / February 21st, 2023

The Top 3 Issues With Your Risk Assessment: Auditor Insight Webinar Recap The power of a risk assessment isn’t just identifying risks: it’s creating a culture of security. The risk assessment process is often viewed as a necessary evil for compliance and is commonly seen as inconvenient and unimportant. However, after over 20 years in the information security space, Shannon Lane views risk assessment as the most powerful tool in…

Making Sure Your Risk Management Isn’t a Wreck

by Mary Beth Warner / December 1st, 2022

We’re all bad at risk. There, I said it. We as humans are fundamentally bad at the concept of gauging risk. Now, before the pitchforks and CRISC certifications get raised, let me give you a real-life example of why that is. Imagine you’re a seventeen-year-old, fresh out of high school and enjoying the summer before college. You’ve got a part time job, you’re participating in a few extracurriculars around town,…

6 Ways Employees Expose Businesses to Security and Compliance Risks

by Hannah Grace Holladay / September 12th, 2022

Business managers and IT professionals are inclined to attribute employee-caused security failures to malice, ignorance, or laziness. After all, the business has security policies and procedures. Employees know about them or, at the very least, have signed a declaration affirming they know about them. The IT team has implemented secure systems.  And yet, employees often circumvent these systems and ignore information security policies, exposing the business to cybersecurity attacks and…

The 5 Components of Risk Management

by KirkpatrickPrice / March 15th, 2021

Every business must contend with risks, some chosen deliberately and others an inherent part of the environment in which the business operates. Founding a business, launching products onto the market, employing people, collecting data, building systems—these are all essential to growing a successful business. They are also all sources of risk.  But a business doesn’t thrive for long if it fails to balance risk-taking with risk mitigation. That’s the role…