Keeping The Lights On: Reducing The Likelihood Of Cyberattacks In The Utility Energy Sector
The services that make up the energy sector are vital to America’s function and progress. Virtually every aspect of daily life is reliant on the uninterrupted availability and flow of energy, whether it’s electricity, water, or natural gas. At the same time, this reliance makes the energy sector a prime target for malicious actors and […]
Don’t Feel Obligated To Jeopardize Your Identity Just To Get Your Teeth Cleaned Or Join A Gym
As a tenured technology professional, who has specialized in third-party risk for the past few years, I am always interested in strategies that organizations use to procure and protect sensitive information. Upon check-in at my most recent dental cleaning, the receptionist asked me to hand over my driver’s license so that she could scan my […]
6 Tips To Manage More Experienced Employees
Managing older, more experienced employees is becoming an essential – and, frankly, unavoidable – skill for young leaders to master. As increasingly more people work well into their 70s, millennials are also fast becoming the largest demographic in the American workforce and are climbing the ladder into the echelons of management. Generation Z isn’t far behind. […]
7 Best Practice Tips For Federal Contractors
On February 28, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed to a $930,000 settlement with Comprehensive Health Services (CHS) to resolve False Claims Act allegations. The resolution represents the department’s first settlement under the False Claims Act since instituting its Civil Cyber Fraud Initiative in October 2021. [1] This is a watershed moment in the […]
A Pocket Guide to Risk and Compliance Automation
You don’t have to be an expert to know that risk management and corporate compliance are different things. Risk management refers to events that can result in some unexpected or undesirable consequence, and how your organization keeps those threats at bay. Corporate compliance is about conforming your business operations to various rules or requirements set […]
5 Things Start-Ups Need To Get Right About Culture
As a career start-up marketer, I’ve been through the gauntlet of start-ups – fast and furious, stubborn and old school – pivot-friendly and fail-fast environments – and I’ve learned quite a few things from them. For example, the failure rate for new start-ups is 90%, and 10% don’t even make it out of the first year. Yet, […]