Top organizations today realize that third-party vendors allow them to improve business processes and provide additional capacity to their resource-strapped teams. But giving vendors access to your organization’s network and data leaves it vulnerable to higher-profile risks.

Join us for a 45-minute webinar where we unpack how Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and their teams play a critical role in ensuring that these risks are kept at bay. In this session, you’ll also discover how to build a third-party risk management program that’s suited to the size of your organization, who should own your program, and how effective is automation.

Digital transformation offers promise but also brings peril. Bad actors, hackers, black hats, whatever you want to call them, are constantly probing and attacking company networks. In fact, researchers have found it only takes seconds before hackers attack newly connected devices and services.

In this new e-book, Lockpath, a leader in IT GRC and Continuous Security Monitoring solutions, provides insights into the core elements of an advanced IT security defense system and how companies can evolve the way they protect against threats.

IT professionals bear the responsibility of safeguarding their organizations from IT threats. Establishing the right set of Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) plays a critical role in preventing potential risks from halting business operations. But many IT departments aren’t sure of where to get started.

This white paper provides you with a foundational understanding of KRIs and discusses how to overcome the common challenges of implementing, managing, and maintaining KRIs. You’ll also gain an understanding of the different kinds of indicators, what they measure, their purpose and the intended audience. By the time you’re done reading, you’ll be equipped with the knowledge and tools to get started with or optimize your KRI program.

As an IT risk or security professional, you bear the responsibility of safeguarding your organization from IT threats. Establishing the right set of Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) plays a critical role in detecting potential risks that can halt business operations or cause reputational damage. But many IT departments aren’t sure of where to get started.

This white paper will provide you with a foundational understanding of KRIs and give actionable tips to help you overcome the common challenges of implementing, managing, and maintaining KRIs. Plus, we provide three jam-packed pages of example KRIs for IT professionals. By the time you’re done reading, you’ll have a roadmap to ensure your IT governance program is a success. 

Emerging technologies are transforming the way that organizations collect, process, and use information. However, solutions such as robotic process automation (RPA), the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), and machine and deep learning have also created opportunities for sensitive data to be misused. While there are laws designed to protect this information, the evolving regulatory requirements present IT professionals, like yourself, with new privacy and compliance challenges.

In this white paper, you will discover how to build a strong regulatory data governance model, the consequences your organization could face if it fails to implement regulatory data privacy controls, and how technology can be the key to a well-rounded protection model. You’ll walk away with actionable steps you can take to build a strong and defensible position to protect your organization’s most important assets.

As companies continue to outsource more aspects of their operations to third parties, they expose themselves to more shared risk. Most organizations understand the need to automate vendor risk management (VRM) activities to keep up with increasing scope and scrutiny. Yet they struggle to identify and prioritize the key features their VRM solution must provide so they can make a significant impact quickly.

To help with this challenge, we've put together a checklist that will serve as a guide. It outlines key features you should look for in a VRM solution and explains the significance of each in mitigating vendor risk.

There’s no question that providing assurance on the effectiveness of IT controls is time-consuming and repetitive. And as cloud-use and mobile apps become more prevalent, external auditors want even more assurance over data validity, integrity, and completeness of testing. But performing access testing by manually downloading user lists and running reports is highly inefficient and not a sustainable way to get the assurance you need.

Join us on this 60-minute webinar to discover how to improve your ITGC testing, including:

• how to automatically connect to systems like Active Directory, SAP ERP, and Salesforce to maximize the efficiency of user access control testing.
• how to apply a standardized user access matrix to speed up quarterly system access reviews and certifications.
• how to work in HighBond to centralize and coordinate user access reviews across the business to reinforce the completeness and validity of testing.

Digital risk is the fastest-evolving aspect of business and public sector operations today. Security and risk management leaders need to anticipate emerging risk, respond in real time, and drive collaboration between all risk management functions. IT risk management (ITRM) solutions support this view by automating risk workflows and providing a complete view of an organization’s full IT risk posture—for better decision making.

The Gartner Magic Quadrant for IT Risk Management is an annual evaluation of the competitive landscape for the IT risk management technology market. Download the full report to discover what you should be looking for when selecting an ITRM solution.

With cybersecurity becoming a top concern for boards of directors, CISOs finally have a seat at the table. But what happens when you have to deliver information on cybersecurity policies, risks, threats, and incident response plans to stakeholders who often don’t have the same technical understanding as you?

Join us on this 60-minute webinar, where we share how CISOs can overcome the challenge of transforming their tactical plans to a higher-level story that’s tailored for the board. You'll also learn:

• How online storyboards make it easy to confidently communicate risk with a specific focus on the business value.
• How combining and analyzing data from different sources results in a more effective explanation of your security maturity.
• How to build a culture that religiously uses metrics to consistently make strategic, data-driven decisions.