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Guide to Records Management
Technology has greatly expanded the methods of creating, editing, maintaining, transmitting and retrieving records. From creation to disposition, records in elect...
Five Essential Lines of Defense You Need to Know for Managing Risk
Organizations have learned many lessons over the years from specific financial crises. For example, if a chief executive ignores the warning signs posed by ...
External Access Risk: Key Factors You Need to Know
Many businesses today exchange goods, services, information and knowledge using network-enabled technologies. Within such business, the proper protection of confi...
Traditional Risk Assessment Approaches Have Limited Value
Developing risk maps, heat maps and risk rankings based on subjective assessments of the severity of impact of potential future events and their likelihood of occ...
Consider Different Approaches When It Comes to Cybersecurity
Cybercrime is now considered a top risk to most enterprises. Many organizations seek to build security by adding tools and processes on top of their established o...
Project Management: Business Risks and Best Practices You Need to Know
Project management is generally associated with the ability to apply expert knowledge, skills, tools and techniques to project activities in order to meet or exce...
A Guide to Self-Assessment Value Proposition
Self-assessment is a process through which an organization utilizes its internal knowledge to identify and assess uncertainties and the extent to which current pr...
What is Financial Instrument Risk?
What is Financial Instrument Risk?Buyers and sellers may enter into sub-optimal financial or commodity instrument structures that have been standardized for effic...
Intellectual Property: Risks You Need to Know
Copyright pirates, brand impersonators, patent flouters and trade secret thieves are a major threat to businesses, given their increased aggressiveness toward int...
What is Design Risk and What Risks are Associated With System Design?
To “design” is to create, fashion, execute, or construct according to plan. The term design as used here refers to the entire scope of a project. A business syste...
