by Kim Singletary | Oct 24, 2025 | Expert Advice
Do you know what it costs your organization for one day of downtime to critical operations? Do you know what your essential third-party vendors are contracted to provide during unplanned outages? Qualifying potential threats and incidents is crucial to every...
by Kim Singletary | Oct 24, 2025 | Expert Advice
Establishing a cadence for Security Controls Validation (SCV) is critical to ensuring your organization’s defenses remain effective over time. Security controls are not static—hardware, software, and configurations evolve continuously due to intentional updates,...
by Kim Singletary | Oct 24, 2025 | Expert Advice
The fastest way to fail during the Vendor Risk Management process is accepting documentation that doesn’t directly apply to the evaluated solution. Many organizations actively develop and implement comprehensive Vendor Risk Management programs with one crucial...
by Kim Singletary | Oct 24, 2025 | Expert Advice
Many organizations mistakenly believe that assessing only infrastructure and network components is sufficient for managing cybersecurity risk. In reality, critical vulnerabilities often exist in overlooked areas such as applications, data repositories, user access,...
by Kim Singletary | Oct 24, 2025 | Expert Advice
Many companies do some data recovery exercises; however, few take the time to craft a “real life” scenario and test their processes. What I mean by this is they restore some files to say they could restore and review them. These are done by resources...