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ISO 27005, issued in 2008, filled a noticeable gap in the ISO 27000 series of standards. The standard is officially titled ISO/IEC 27005.2008, “Information technology — Security techniques — Information security risk management.”
Two months after its debut, reviewers pretty much agree that ISO 31000 lives up to its billing as a good generic, process-oriented risk management framework that addresses myriad forms of risk across many industries. The question is, do you need it?
Political and financial instability remain a feature of the business landscape as a result of the recession, according to Aon Risk Services, the global risk management and insurance brokerage business of Aon Corporation. The company has launched its 17th annual Political Risk Map.
Aravo, a provider of SaaS Supplier Information Management (SIM) software and services, announced the results of a supplier risk poll exploring the opinions and concerns of Fortune 1000 executives.
Two risks dwarf all others, but organizations fail to mitigate them. Read the rest of this entry »
On the anniversary of the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Business Continuity Institute has published a discussion paper on how risk oversight and transparency can be improved for non-executive directors and shareholders through applying business continuity management practices.
Enterprise security budgets have always been difficult to justify, and the global economic crisis is making this critical process even more difficult, according to Gartner, Inc. Corporate security professionals face a complex situation as they work with highly constrained financial and staffing resources to manage and mitigate a rapidly changing and expanding risk environment.
Ninety percent of risk management experts surveyed have implemented or plan to implement an enterprise-wide risk management approach, according to a new survey from the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and its partners. As corporations work to gain a foothold following the global financial crisis, businesses are taking a closer look at risk management implementation and the role of the Chief Risk Officer (CRO), as noted in the survey. Other top factors in the decision to implement ERM are ratings agencies and risk events affecting the firm.
The Institute of Risk Management (IRM) has announced that Claire Betteridge has won its 2009 Business Continuity and Crisis Management Student Award. Claire is Senior Risk and Insurance Officer for Blackpool Borough Council.
According to Samsung’s research, 56 percent of workers regularly see confidential documents abandoned on the printer, 51 percent not aware of any processes or technologies in place at their organization to protect the printer network itself
Congratulations — you’ve been assigned to implement your firm’s disaster recovery plan. Data backed up offsite? Check. Distributed data center? Check. Recovery procedures tested? Check. What’s missing? People.
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