Ensuring the safety of students, faculty and staff is the most important part of the education industry. Parents place their children in the hands of schools and trust that in the event of an emergency, the school has a plan in place to keep their children safe. That’s why for schools across the United States, […]
Companies across all industries are at a high risk for slipping through the cracks when it comes to cybersecurity compliance. With new threats every day, it can be challenging to keep up. This is especially true for asset management firms. Due to the extremely high amount of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) that are stored within […]
Those in the healthcare industry witness the risks of not being prepared on a daily basis. No matter who you are, where you live or how invincible you believe you may be, nobody is immune to a crisis. Healthcare facilities have patients in critical care, important documents with sensitive and private patient records and visitors […]
Doing the bare minimum never gets you very far, especially when it comes to emergency preparedness. The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has a set of minimum requirements for Emergency Action Plans (EAPs) that companies with 10 or more employees are required to abide by. Failure to do so can result in legal implications. […]
The question should not be whether or not to invest in tabletop exercises. Rather, the question should be a matter of when you will invest in tabletop exercises. The answer should be, ‘the sooner the better.’ Tabletop exercises are discussion-based sessions where team members meet in an informal, classroom setting to discuss their roles during […]
Law firms are notoriously not the best when it comes to technology, and now they’re struggling as breaches in firms have made headlines and clients are questioning their cybersecurity programs. As a result, firms are asking “What do we do to keep our systems and data safe? How can we keep this from happening to […]
The HIPAA Privacy Rule is the first national standard for the protection of personal health information (PHI). This standard was put in place to create consistency among the healthcare industry when it comes to protecting sensitive patient data, and applies to health plans, health care clearinghouses, and all health care providers that conduct health care […]
You know that business continuity (BC) plan that you keep meaning to write but put off for another day? It’s time to stop procrastinating because some changes to business continuity are on the horizon. The SEC is proposing a new rule that would require SEC registered investment advisers to adopt and implement written business continuity […]
When you’re listening to the news on your way to work in the morning and hear about a tornado in Oklahoma, a devastating earthquake in Japan, or an IRS data breach affecting hundreds of thousands of American taxpayers, you’re probably thinking, “that kind of stuff only happens to other people, not me.” However, the truth […]