Secure Your City: Correctional Facilities

by Sarah Harvey / June 14, 2023

As technology advances, it touches every facet of society – and that includes correctional facilities. There’s an obvious need and investment in physical security at correctional facilities, but cybersecurity is presenting new areas of risk in prisons and detention centers. New technology makes it possible for inmates to send messages, read e-books, download music, participate in video visitation, and receive money transfers. What happens if that technology is compromised by…

7 Deadly Sins of a HITRUST CSF Assessment

by Shannon Lane / October 11, 2023

 7 Deadly Sins of HITRUST At KirkpatrickPrice, we’ve worked with clients of all sizes – from startups to enterprise-level organizations. By working with so many organizations of varying sizes and industries, we’ve been able to identify seven primary pitfalls that make for a challenging audit environment, all of which represent initial difficulties that often lead to a failed or very drawn out HITRUST validated assessment attempts. In recognizing how significant…

Auditing Basics: Audit Risk, Control Risk, and Detection Risk

by Joseph Kirkpatrick / February 15, 2023

What Types of Risk Impact SOC 1 and SOC 2 Audits? SOC 1 and SOC 2 audits are largely impacted by various types of risk. During a SOC 1 and SOC 2 audit, an auditor will be focused on limiting the following types of risk: audit risk, control risk, and detection risk. So, how are those risks different? How to they affect an auditor while performing SOC 1 or SOC…

Secure Your City: Public Safety

by Sarah Harvey / June 14, 2023

The components of every city’s public safety – law enforcement, fire, EMS – must perform their due diligence and meet best practices when creating effective cybersecurity strategies. Each department is targeted for different reasons, but each one impacts the safety of residents. You’d be surprised by how often cyber attacks against public safety happens and how little it’s talked about. Let’s take a look at five reasons why cybersecurity is…

Where a Breach Happens: Threats to Financial Institutions

by Sarah Harvey / December 16, 2022

Securing Financial Institutions Every business has an asset that they can’t bear to lose, and for financial institutions, those assets include money, financial information about consumers, and consumers’ personal data. Financial institutions need personal data in order to verify financial information and protecting all of that data is a responsibility. In this white paper, we’ll discuss four major areas of concern that financial institutions must take into consideration when securing…