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1. Four Reasons to Start an RBAC Program Today
[ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Risk Management | Author: KellyManthey | Date Published: 09/16/2009
Role Based Access Control (RBAC) is the process of granting people within similar job functions the same access to resources (systems, data etc.) required to do their job. The concept centers on putting into business-friendly terms the logical grouping of resource access. These resource access...
2. Undervaluing the Need for Risk Management Is Risky
[ Article ] Topic: Risk Management | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 03/03/2009
As recently as last week, Yale University behavioral economics professor Robert Shiller told reporters the current mess in the financial markets results in part from a failure to manage risk. Last year, the Securities and Exchange Commission offered new guidance on a risk-based approach to...
3. Agencies, Industry Dragging Feet on Emergency Alert Systems
[ Article ] Topic: Telecommunications Services | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 09/04/2009
Crisis situations involve two important information flows: First responders and other professionals must be able to communicate with each other, and officials must keep the public informed about what is going on. Crises – September 11, the Virginia Tech shootings, Hurricane Katrina and others –...
4. Don’t Let Your Business Fail – Back up Your Data
[ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Backup | Author: KenShaw | Date Published: 08/12/2009
You have car insurance to replace or repair your car and health insurance if you get sick or injured, but what would you do if you lost all your data? Do you have data insurance? For a small business owner, data loss could result in having to start from scratch or worse – business failure....
5. Pros and Cons of Managed Security Services
[ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Managed Security Services | Author: BobViolino | Date Published: 08/26/2009
More organizations are using managed security services, where security functions such as vulnerability assessment and network firewall monitoring are offered to clients as a service. These services offer potential benefits to organizations that lack the internal security resources. They also...
6. Cloud Computing: Understanding the Risks and Questions to Ask Your Service Provider
[ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Cloud Computing | Author: AdamBosnian | Date Published: 10/12/2009
Cloud computing - the process of storing, accessing and sharing company data and processes remotely on the Internet - has changed the audit and risk profile of data systems in most organizations. Whilst the economics of going down the cloud route for data storage are highly attractive, there are...
7. Eight Steps to Reducing Compliance Risks
[ Interview ] Topic: Risk Management | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 08/29/2006
Lora Bentley spoke with Richard Cellini, Esq., a VP with Integrity Interactive Corp. Integrity Interactive provides compliance risk management tools to more than 300 companies in the Fortune 2000, located in the United States and the European Union. Bentley : In your opinion, what are the...
8. What Good Will a 'Market Stability Regulator' Do?
[ Interview ] Topic: Legislation and Regulation | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 05/16/2008
Lora Bentley spoke with Chuck Saletta, a contributor for The Motley Fool , an investment services company. Bentley : You have written that the government's proposed regulatory response to the subprime lending scandal is overkill. How so? Saletta : My primary concern is with Paulson's plan...
9. Converging GRC Initiatives Across the Enterprise Just Makes Sense
[ Interview ] Topic: Risk Management | Author: LoraBentley | Date Published: 03/13/2009
Lora Bentley spoke with John Kelly, marketing director at governance, risk and compliance solution provider OpenPages . Kelly says prevailing trends in the GRC market this year include an increased awareness of risk and a growing tendency to converge all GRC efforts within an organization into a...
10. Security Staffs Deal with Challenges of Compliance, Organized Crime
[ Article ] Topic: Security Metrics | Author: CarlWeinschenk | Date Published: 11/20/2007
There is no shortage of evidence that cyber crime is getting more organized . Indeed, it is the one security trend that supersedes all others. The scary idea is that the dark side has banded together and taken a systematic approach to getting their hands on information that doesn't belong to...
11. Making IT Governance More Relevant
[ Guest Opinion ] Topic: Internal Governance | Author: VentanaResearch | Date Published: 07/23/2009
Summary Few corporations have a clear idea of the benefits they receive from their IT spending. While they may be able to assess their gains in efficiency from, say, server consolidation, they are in the dark as to whether their purchases of applications running on those servers are enhancing or...
12. The Risk of Underestimating Risk Management
[ Article ] Topic: Risk Management | Author: DennisByron | Date Published: 08/05/2008
Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management is a buzzword du jour. But because of that, IT management and staff might ignore it. Don’t! The combination of an explosion in unstructured data to be managed and the coming exponential growth in services — many of them crossing firewalls by