Operational Risk Management...

Robert Young Pelton's Travel Tips may be common sense. These are also the type of tips you get from those expensive executive seminars...

John and Stan could not have said it any better.... By John Van Decker and Stan Lepeak 10 May 2004 | Meta Group One common mispercept...

The quality of data is becoming a risk management issue again according to this latest Banking Study of 1700 banks in 63 countries. Sarban...

Phishing is making it's way inside corporations and represents a new threat by hackers. The ploy is to send an email that looks legit...

In the latest issue of Corporate Board Member you will find some very interesting statistics and comments. This one got our attention: ...

Travel risk to corporate executives is on the rise. Even if you are not an executive who can afford the services of personal body guards an...

The Tower Group is shouting the need for banks to automate now in the midst of the Basel II momentum. While business performance has conver...

What other risk will the financial services industry find to be more of a threat? With the latest litigation filed by the now famous Eliot ...

The latest surveys from PwC ASIA paints a rosey picture for a rise in Information Security spending. About 67 per cent of information te...

There seems to be some discussion on whether the CFO should also act as the Chief Risk Officer? . These days, however, the risk managemen...

The newspapers are full of headlines today displaying the operational risks we contend with in these volatile days ahead of the US President...

The Special 301 process is gaining some new attention in the IPR battle. The WIPO conference in Geneva has also produced some new headway ...

Most CIOs have been intimately involved in meeting Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) deadlines and setting up auditing reporting processes. But if you...

In last month’s Survive newsletter Patrick Roberts commented on an interesting article in the Times about insurance companies proposing to ...

As the newest band of banks collaborate on Anti-Phishing strategies one can only wonder what they will do differently to mitigate this oper...

A recent study has found that 93% of CIO's that were polled were clueless on their Section 404 compliance responsibilities of Sarbanes-...

As the estimates come in from the losses from Florida hurricanes it looks like it will exceed $22 Billion. The total economic impact is ...

After stopping by the booth at the ASIS conference in Dallas this week I'm convinced that Bruce McIndoe and his team are on to something...

NFPA has announced that is has scheduled a series of workshops aimed at helping facility emergency managers understand and use NFPA 1600. T...

By Jeffrey H. Birnbaum and David A. Vise Washington Post Staff Writers Monday, September 27, 2004; Page A01 Fannie Mae , one of Washing...

Since 1999, Basel II has been coming to a bank near you in America : "At the time, the Federal Reserve announced that the top nine bank...

The Department of Homeland Security launches the Ready for Business Campaign at the US Chamber of Commerce today. The extension of the G...

As Symantec has recently been publishing their version of the losses sustained from Phishing, the vendors are busy trying to grab market sha...

More global companies have selected the operational risk measurement framework from SAS , and they seem to be gaining momentum in the market...

Operational risk management protects and enhances shareholder value. 1SecureAudit enhances shareholder value as a primary benefit of its imp...

The operational risk associated with process error is a major concern these days. Especially when a human is concerned with the continuity ...

Hey New Orleans, got Hurricane Ivan yet? RMS predicts from $4 to $10B in damages. Business continuity plans are being exercised. Peopl...

The Heinz School at Carnigie Mellon has finished it's survey on Cyber Extortion and some of it's findings are surprising. Compan...

When the image contains text you might be vulnerable to a new scam online. This new advertising headline may soon be in vogue, Malicious ...

As We Mark The Third Anniversary of 9/11 one can imagine how the world will be in the next three years. A globe pock marked by terrorist i...

PricewaterhouseCoopers has found the Ten Attributes they say leads to a world class risk management organization: • Pay equal attention ...

What are some classic cases of operational risk out of control? Check out The Wheel of Misfortune . One of the best ways to develop risk...

The new wireless networks in your enterprise are now becoming more secure as a result of the WPA2 standard ,says the Wi-Fi Alliance. WPA2...

The Terrorism Risk Insurance business is on the rise according to a recent Marsh Report on Terrorism Risk. The percentage of policy holder...

Frances Slams Allstate's stock upon fears that the hurricane is going to make landfall any day in Florida. Shares of Allstate Corp.,...

What is it that corporate management and the US Navy have in common? Corporations can learn ORM from the US Navy principles to earn top s...

"The Internet is the bold new frontier of crime, but we're the new sheriff in town. For cyber criminals who operate out of Los Ange...

Corporate Governance is good for the bottom line but even Google hasn't found this out...yet. Their recent coporate governance quotien...

Is the commercial real esate industry subject to our latest antiterrorism laws? Executive Order 13224 and the prohibited parties list of ...

The identity theft penalty enhancement act expands the capabilities of the Justice Department to investigate I.D. theft. See the synopsis ...

Banks INFOSEC departments have increasing roles in audits. The Information Security departments must have a systematic program for managin...

Survey identifies main stumbling blocks to successful operational risk management : Difficulties in collating clean data and poor awaren...

Summer in the City: Unconventional Insurance and Olympian Security in Age of Terrorism Risk : By Andrew G. Simpson, Jr. A little more ...

The other day I received a package in the mail from Fast Company Magazine. I opened the brown padded envelope with the "Security Radar...

Dangerous Waters : " Distributed denial-of-service attacks may reshape the way courts evaluate liability for network security breac...

IT Spending for Compliance: From SOX 404 to Comprehensive Compliance : Financial Insights estimates that North American financial institu...

Recovery Point Recovery Point Systems provides comprehensive, availability end-user hotsite recovery services for mission critical, busi...

Bush Backs Creating U.S. Antiterrorism Chief By Frank Csongos The United States is planning to undertake new measures to fight the Al...

DHS | Department of Homeland Security | DHS Home Page : August 1, 2004 - Good afternoon.  President Bush has told you, and I have told ...

Over the past few months’ 1SecureAudit LLC has conducted an independent online poll to determine the areas of Operational Risk that are the...

Following are sample questions from the Sections 302 and 404 Readiness Assessment by Deloitte. Has your company: 1. Adopted a formal ...

Top 10 Most Effective Cybercrime Policies CSO recently partnered with Carnegie Mellon's CERT Coordination Center and the U.S. Secret...

64% of Companies Have Dedicated Regulatory Compliance Budgets By: SmartPros Editorial Staff -- Sixty-four percent of companies curre...

eEye Digital Security - Vulnerability Management Solutions : " Why Does the Industry Need Blink? Unknown vulnerabilities represe...

Experts laud U.S. program to counter bioterror attack : Matthew B. Stannard, Chronicle Staff San Diego -- Fast action and the right me...

Bank Systems & Technology > Phishing Attacks Linked To Organized Crime : Michael Cohn, Security Pipeline 'There's a lo...

The operational risks facing corporate organizations today are found across a wide spectrum: People Processes Systems Exte...

DHS | Department of Homeland Security | Fact Sheet: A Better Prepared America: A Year in Review : Fact Sheet: A Better Prepared America: ...

Carpe Diem : Yesterday's balkanized approach isn't going to get you where you want to go—or reduce your company's risk....