Survey results from the 2016 IT Disaster Recovery Planning and Preparedness Survey | Bluelock commissioned with ALM to asses the current state of the legal industry's IT disaster recovery (DR) preparedness, pressures and confidence.
Making the Leap: Exploring the Push for Cloud AdoptionGov BizCouncil
For a growing number of public and private sector organizations, cloud is the future — a game-changer for mitigating risk, enhancing effectiveness, and initiating new capabilities. To learn more about ongoing progress and challenges associated with cloud adoption, Government Business Council and Salesforce launched an in-depth research study in May 2017.
Healthcare organizations are awash with data. However, electronic health records (EHRs) and digital clinical systems in many healthcare organizations have been deployed without strategic data and IT infrastructure security planning. As a result, chief information security officers (CISOs) frequently have limited authority, sparse staffing and tight budgets. Data security spending in healthcare lags behind other top cybercrime targets such as financial services, according to new research by HIMSS Analytics on behalf of Symantec Corporation.
The 2015 survey uncovers the latest issues organizations are facing as they respond to risks, assess the effectiveness of their risk mitigation activities and gain a deeper understanding of what they are doing to address cybersecurity.
Since the spread of IT systems has made it a pre-requisite that auditors as well as management have the ability to examine high volumes of data and transaction in order to determine patterns and trends. In addition, the increasing need to continuously monitor and audit IT systems has created an imperative for the effective use of appropriate data mining tools.
While a variety of powerful tools are readily available today, the skills required to utilize such tools are not. Not only must the correct testing techniques be selected but the effective interpretation of outcomes presented by the software is essential in the drawing of appropriate conclusions based on the data analysis. This 6 webinar series, based on Richard Cascarino’s book “Data Analytics for Internal Auditors” covers these skills and techniques.
Webinar 2 in a 6 Webinar Series - Analytics in the Audit
Conducting the Audit
Obtaining Information from IT Systems for Analysis
Use of Computer Assisted Audit Techniques
With much of the federal workforce engaging in some sort of business travel or remote work, organizations may benefit from implementing robust, standardized duty of care policies to better to ensure employee safety. GBC's recent survey of 431 senior-level federal employees takes a look at the current state of agency travel safety and management.
Duplicate payments, duplicate vendors, and segregation of duties in accounts payable are still the top tests being run by auditors using analytics. They are simple, effective, and save money which always helps the business case for analytics. Further, vendor and related payments fraud is the #1 fraud (in volume) affecting all organizations – big and small, public and private, regardless of the industry and sector. Excel templates will be provided with admission to assist to complete all testing and visualizations using graphs. Further data request letters and analytic audit programs will be provided to “jump start” your audit efforts in the accounts payable and vendor management areas.
Specific learning objectives include:
o Run over 20….key, proactive error and fraud tests in the areas of the accounts payable, vendor masterfiles, and purchase order files, all in Excel.
o Map the report results to an audit program to produce an analytically-enabled audit program.
o Discover the top frauds and corruption schemes along with top cost efficiencies to enact within accounts payable reviews.
o Distinguish between the top major accounting systems used when extracting accounts payable and vendor masterfile data and obtain a standard data request to aid the extractions
o Complete a multiple perspective visualization review of your accounts payable data including time based, amount based, company/profit center based, enterer, etc.
These are the slides. If you would like the associated data files they are available for download after payment. Videos of these sessions are available for free.
Details contact Rich Lanza (rich@richlanza.com)
How Well is Your Organization Protecting its Real Crown Jewels - Identities?Hitachi ID Systems, Inc.
Can your security team detect and identify intruders before data disappears?
Are you confident that former employees and contractors no longer have access to your critical systems?
These are among the questions we set out to answer in the 2015 Privileged Access Management Study, and the responses help create an eye-opening information security agenda for 2016.
This study was designed to examine just how well organizations are protecting their true crown jewels – identities. In this report, you will receive survey results that explore:
• How organizations are best managing privileged identities;
• The true business impact of intrusions due to external/internal privileged users;
• Modern methods being employed to detect both accidental and malicious activity.
See more at: http://hitachi-id.com/documents/
Making the Leap: Exploring the Push for Cloud AdoptionGov BizCouncil
For a growing number of public and private sector organizations, cloud is the future — a game-changer for mitigating risk, enhancing effectiveness, and initiating new capabilities. To learn more about ongoing progress and challenges associated with cloud adoption, Government Business Council and Salesforce launched an in-depth research study in May 2017.
Healthcare organizations are awash with data. However, electronic health records (EHRs) and digital clinical systems in many healthcare organizations have been deployed without strategic data and IT infrastructure security planning. As a result, chief information security officers (CISOs) frequently have limited authority, sparse staffing and tight budgets. Data security spending in healthcare lags behind other top cybercrime targets such as financial services, according to new research by HIMSS Analytics on behalf of Symantec Corporation.
The 2015 survey uncovers the latest issues organizations are facing as they respond to risks, assess the effectiveness of their risk mitigation activities and gain a deeper understanding of what they are doing to address cybersecurity.
Since the spread of IT systems has made it a pre-requisite that auditors as well as management have the ability to examine high volumes of data and transaction in order to determine patterns and trends. In addition, the increasing need to continuously monitor and audit IT systems has created an imperative for the effective use of appropriate data mining tools.
While a variety of powerful tools are readily available today, the skills required to utilize such tools are not. Not only must the correct testing techniques be selected but the effective interpretation of outcomes presented by the software is essential in the drawing of appropriate conclusions based on the data analysis. This 6 webinar series, based on Richard Cascarino’s book “Data Analytics for Internal Auditors” covers these skills and techniques.
Webinar 2 in a 6 Webinar Series - Analytics in the Audit
Conducting the Audit
Obtaining Information from IT Systems for Analysis
Use of Computer Assisted Audit Techniques
With much of the federal workforce engaging in some sort of business travel or remote work, organizations may benefit from implementing robust, standardized duty of care policies to better to ensure employee safety. GBC's recent survey of 431 senior-level federal employees takes a look at the current state of agency travel safety and management.
Duplicate payments, duplicate vendors, and segregation of duties in accounts payable are still the top tests being run by auditors using analytics. They are simple, effective, and save money which always helps the business case for analytics. Further, vendor and related payments fraud is the #1 fraud (in volume) affecting all organizations – big and small, public and private, regardless of the industry and sector. Excel templates will be provided with admission to assist to complete all testing and visualizations using graphs. Further data request letters and analytic audit programs will be provided to “jump start” your audit efforts in the accounts payable and vendor management areas.
Specific learning objectives include:
o Run over 20….key, proactive error and fraud tests in the areas of the accounts payable, vendor masterfiles, and purchase order files, all in Excel.
o Map the report results to an audit program to produce an analytically-enabled audit program.
o Discover the top frauds and corruption schemes along with top cost efficiencies to enact within accounts payable reviews.
o Distinguish between the top major accounting systems used when extracting accounts payable and vendor masterfile data and obtain a standard data request to aid the extractions
o Complete a multiple perspective visualization review of your accounts payable data including time based, amount based, company/profit center based, enterer, etc.
These are the slides. If you would like the associated data files they are available for download after payment. Videos of these sessions are available for free.
Details contact Rich Lanza (rich@richlanza.com)
How Well is Your Organization Protecting its Real Crown Jewels - Identities?Hitachi ID Systems, Inc.
Can your security team detect and identify intruders before data disappears?
Are you confident that former employees and contractors no longer have access to your critical systems?
These are among the questions we set out to answer in the 2015 Privileged Access Management Study, and the responses help create an eye-opening information security agenda for 2016.
This study was designed to examine just how well organizations are protecting their true crown jewels – identities. In this report, you will receive survey results that explore:
• How organizations are best managing privileged identities;
• The true business impact of intrusions due to external/internal privileged users;
• Modern methods being employed to detect both accidental and malicious activity.
See more at: http://hitachi-id.com/documents/
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions commissioned the Fraud Mitigation Study to uncover fraud trends and patterns. 800 fraud mitigation professionals from insurance, financial services, retail, government, healthcare and communications took part in the survey.
While Healthcare organizations are focusing their attention on HIPAA and HITECH compliance, they may be missing an important data risk in their lower environments. Read our whitepaper.
Envisioning IC ITE: The Next Generation of Information SharingGov BizCouncil
It’s 2016, and the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) is seeking to unlock greater levels of effectiveness by implementing the IC Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE), a common platform dedicated to enhancing integration, information sharing processes, and security across agencies. In order to learn more about the current state of the intelligence environment, Government Business Council (GBC), Harris, and the Intelligence National Security Alliance (INSA) surveyed government leaders from the intelligence community.
Federal IT networks are under more pressure than ever before. Do federal managers have the IT services they need to effectively do their jobs? If not, how can agencies bring their IT infrastructure up to speed?
Agencies are driven to innovate by the need to lower costs and improve performance -- but existing practices and structures may not encourage federal employees to pursue new ideas.
There are many misconceptions about the use of data analytics to detect fraud.
While in itself it does not detect fraud, data analytics is an integral part of the fraud detection process. This webinar will examine the truth behind the role of data analytics in the process including developing criteria to pare down data records, sorting through 100% of the records and tracking down anomalies hidden in your data.
Learning Objectives:
• Become familiar with data analysis processes
• Recognize misconceptions of how data analytic tools can be used for fraud detection
• Understand the real benefits of using data analytics and what it can do for you
• Obtain the steps required to apply the data analytic process to detect fraud
About the Presenter:
Sunder Gee, CPA, CMA, CIDA provides electronic data consultative services for tax lawyers, tax accountants and RTA Corporation. Sunder has also developed training material on various topics for the CRA and other organizations as well as published a book called "Fraud and Fraud Detection: A Data Analytics Approach”.
CynergisTek’s Survey Data Reveals Leading Cybersecurity Concerns for Healthcare Organization Executives.
Client-Conference Data Unveils That Risks Associated with Internet of Things, Medical Devices, Third-Party Vendors, and Program Management are Top of Mind for Security Executives, Yet Action is Lagging
How to measure your cybersecurity performanceAbhishek Sood
In order for organizations to stay competitive, they must always be improving. This too is true for their cybersecurity.
Being able to properly harvest and digest cybersecurity benchmarking information is critical for today’s CIOs. If you realize that your cybersecurity is not at the level it should be, evaluating it properly can help you raise appropriate resources to fix the issues.
Discover how to get the full picture of your organization's security performance compared to your peers. Learn why benchmarking is so critical for today's CIOs and how to clearly communicate benchmarking data to your board.
SANS 2013 Report on Critical Security Controls Survey: Moving From Awareness ...FireEye, Inc.
The law of unintended consequences strikes again. In an effort to address security risks in enterprise IT systems and the critical data in them, numerous security standards and requirement frameworks have emerged over the years. But most of these efforts have had the opposite effect — diverting organizations’ limited resources away from actual cyber defense toward reports and compliance.
Recognizing this serious problem, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in 2008 launched Critical Security Controls (CSCs), a prioritized list of controls likely to have the greatest impact in protecting organizations from evolving real-world threats. This SANS Institute survey of nearly 700 IT professionals across a range of industries examines how well the CSCs are known in government and industry and how they are being used.
For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html.
Sécurité Mobile : Votre Entreprise est-elle préparée pour 2020?AGILLY
Bonjour,
Nous avons pensé que ce webinar devrait vous intéresser.
Comment la mobilité, l'Internet des objets et l'intelligence artificielle vont impacter la votre transformation digitale.
Toutes les entreprises modernes s'activent pour accélérer leur transformation numérique, mettant une pression immense sur les responsables informatiques pour la réalisation de projets nouveaux et ambitieux. Cela arrive à un moment où les équipes informatique et de sécurité sont invitées à s'intégrer davantage. Pendant ce temps, la travail quotidien de la gestion des utilisateurs, des appareils, des applications et du contenu devient plus encombrant.
Revivez ce webinar qui présente sur l'étude Forrester, basée sur la contribution de 556 professionnels de l'IT. Découvrez ce que l'avenir réserve pour mobilité, les terminaux et l'IoT en 2020:
Quel équipe IT sera responsable de la sécurisation de l'IoT?
Combien de systèmes seront nécessaires pour gérer les terminaux du futur?
Dans quelle mesure votre environnement de base changera-t-il radicalement dans quelques années?
D'ici 2020, quel pourcentage d'organisations utiliseront l'informatique propulsée par l'Intelligence Artificielle et l'Analyse Cognitive?
Whitepaper : Building a disaster ready infrastructureJake Weaver
It’s not just hurricanes, fire or other natureal disasters that can bring a business to its knees. Everyday problems such as bad software, misconfigured networks, hardware failures or power outages are much more common. In fact, power failures accounted for nearly half of the declared disasters reported in a recent survey conducted by Forrester
The 2022 CIO Survey Summary Report provides insight into the priorities, challenges, and opportunities facing IT leaders in the consumer products, retail, and life sciences industries this year. Businesses across the world continue to face talent and labor shortages as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and companies within the tech industry are no different. These shortages, combined with changes to the “normal” workplace environment, have resulted in many companies rethinking and assessing their current and future challenges, opportunities, and priorities within their IT departments. In late 2021, Clarkston Consulting conducted a CIO Market Study, aiming to better understand the current priorities and challenges of upper or C-Suite level IT professionals (CIO/CISO/CTO/VP) at large companies ($350M+ revenue) in the retail, CPG, manufacturing, or life science industries. The four key objectives for the 2022 CIO Survey were to:
Understand the overall relationship between IT and other departments within the company.
Understand current IT budget distribution, technologies/platforms used, and sources for technology-specific learning and development.
Identify attributes that are important in selecting outsourcing or managed services partners, a professional services provider, or a technology platform/vendor.
Determine priorities for the coming year and understand how COVID-19 has changed priorities in recent years.
Market Study Results
Through this CIO Market Study, Clarkston was able to gain valuable insight on the current status and perceptions of IT departments, including budget, ERP usage, investments, outsourced activities, and department health; department expectations, priorities, and plans for the upcoming year; and important attributes in outsourcing and managed services, among other key findings.
The results of this survey provide a detailed view of many of the challenges that IT departments across the consumer products, retail, and life sciences industries continue to face, particularly as they navigate the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the workplace.
Digitizing Insurance - Transforming Legacy Systems to Adopt Modern and Emergi...RapidValue
This paper explains how insurers can use the digitization (digitalization) opportunity to deliver greater value to their customers. It is also, revealed how the companies can gain competitive advantage. Insurers are able to engage more intensely with the existing customers and also, attract newer customers with the help of innovative products. Digitizing improves profitability and facilitates growth.
LexisNexis® Risk Solutions commissioned the Fraud Mitigation Study to uncover fraud trends and patterns. 800 fraud mitigation professionals from insurance, financial services, retail, government, healthcare and communications took part in the survey.
While Healthcare organizations are focusing their attention on HIPAA and HITECH compliance, they may be missing an important data risk in their lower environments. Read our whitepaper.
Envisioning IC ITE: The Next Generation of Information SharingGov BizCouncil
It’s 2016, and the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) is seeking to unlock greater levels of effectiveness by implementing the IC Information Technology Enterprise (IC ITE), a common platform dedicated to enhancing integration, information sharing processes, and security across agencies. In order to learn more about the current state of the intelligence environment, Government Business Council (GBC), Harris, and the Intelligence National Security Alliance (INSA) surveyed government leaders from the intelligence community.
Federal IT networks are under more pressure than ever before. Do federal managers have the IT services they need to effectively do their jobs? If not, how can agencies bring their IT infrastructure up to speed?
Agencies are driven to innovate by the need to lower costs and improve performance -- but existing practices and structures may not encourage federal employees to pursue new ideas.
There are many misconceptions about the use of data analytics to detect fraud.
While in itself it does not detect fraud, data analytics is an integral part of the fraud detection process. This webinar will examine the truth behind the role of data analytics in the process including developing criteria to pare down data records, sorting through 100% of the records and tracking down anomalies hidden in your data.
Learning Objectives:
• Become familiar with data analysis processes
• Recognize misconceptions of how data analytic tools can be used for fraud detection
• Understand the real benefits of using data analytics and what it can do for you
• Obtain the steps required to apply the data analytic process to detect fraud
About the Presenter:
Sunder Gee, CPA, CMA, CIDA provides electronic data consultative services for tax lawyers, tax accountants and RTA Corporation. Sunder has also developed training material on various topics for the CRA and other organizations as well as published a book called "Fraud and Fraud Detection: A Data Analytics Approach”.
CynergisTek’s Survey Data Reveals Leading Cybersecurity Concerns for Healthcare Organization Executives.
Client-Conference Data Unveils That Risks Associated with Internet of Things, Medical Devices, Third-Party Vendors, and Program Management are Top of Mind for Security Executives, Yet Action is Lagging
How to measure your cybersecurity performanceAbhishek Sood
In order for organizations to stay competitive, they must always be improving. This too is true for their cybersecurity.
Being able to properly harvest and digest cybersecurity benchmarking information is critical for today’s CIOs. If you realize that your cybersecurity is not at the level it should be, evaluating it properly can help you raise appropriate resources to fix the issues.
Discover how to get the full picture of your organization's security performance compared to your peers. Learn why benchmarking is so critical for today's CIOs and how to clearly communicate benchmarking data to your board.
SANS 2013 Report on Critical Security Controls Survey: Moving From Awareness ...FireEye, Inc.
The law of unintended consequences strikes again. In an effort to address security risks in enterprise IT systems and the critical data in them, numerous security standards and requirement frameworks have emerged over the years. But most of these efforts have had the opposite effect — diverting organizations’ limited resources away from actual cyber defense toward reports and compliance.
Recognizing this serious problem, the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) in 2008 launched Critical Security Controls (CSCs), a prioritized list of controls likely to have the greatest impact in protecting organizations from evolving real-world threats. This SANS Institute survey of nearly 700 IT professionals across a range of industries examines how well the CSCs are known in government and industry and how they are being used.
For the latest threat intelligence reports, visit https://www.fireeye.com/current-threats/threat-intelligence-reports.html.
Sécurité Mobile : Votre Entreprise est-elle préparée pour 2020?AGILLY
Bonjour,
Nous avons pensé que ce webinar devrait vous intéresser.
Comment la mobilité, l'Internet des objets et l'intelligence artificielle vont impacter la votre transformation digitale.
Toutes les entreprises modernes s'activent pour accélérer leur transformation numérique, mettant une pression immense sur les responsables informatiques pour la réalisation de projets nouveaux et ambitieux. Cela arrive à un moment où les équipes informatique et de sécurité sont invitées à s'intégrer davantage. Pendant ce temps, la travail quotidien de la gestion des utilisateurs, des appareils, des applications et du contenu devient plus encombrant.
Revivez ce webinar qui présente sur l'étude Forrester, basée sur la contribution de 556 professionnels de l'IT. Découvrez ce que l'avenir réserve pour mobilité, les terminaux et l'IoT en 2020:
Quel équipe IT sera responsable de la sécurisation de l'IoT?
Combien de systèmes seront nécessaires pour gérer les terminaux du futur?
Dans quelle mesure votre environnement de base changera-t-il radicalement dans quelques années?
D'ici 2020, quel pourcentage d'organisations utiliseront l'informatique propulsée par l'Intelligence Artificielle et l'Analyse Cognitive?
Whitepaper : Building a disaster ready infrastructureJake Weaver
It’s not just hurricanes, fire or other natureal disasters that can bring a business to its knees. Everyday problems such as bad software, misconfigured networks, hardware failures or power outages are much more common. In fact, power failures accounted for nearly half of the declared disasters reported in a recent survey conducted by Forrester
The 2022 CIO Survey Summary Report provides insight into the priorities, challenges, and opportunities facing IT leaders in the consumer products, retail, and life sciences industries this year. Businesses across the world continue to face talent and labor shortages as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and companies within the tech industry are no different. These shortages, combined with changes to the “normal” workplace environment, have resulted in many companies rethinking and assessing their current and future challenges, opportunities, and priorities within their IT departments. In late 2021, Clarkston Consulting conducted a CIO Market Study, aiming to better understand the current priorities and challenges of upper or C-Suite level IT professionals (CIO/CISO/CTO/VP) at large companies ($350M+ revenue) in the retail, CPG, manufacturing, or life science industries. The four key objectives for the 2022 CIO Survey were to:
Understand the overall relationship between IT and other departments within the company.
Understand current IT budget distribution, technologies/platforms used, and sources for technology-specific learning and development.
Identify attributes that are important in selecting outsourcing or managed services partners, a professional services provider, or a technology platform/vendor.
Determine priorities for the coming year and understand how COVID-19 has changed priorities in recent years.
Market Study Results
Through this CIO Market Study, Clarkston was able to gain valuable insight on the current status and perceptions of IT departments, including budget, ERP usage, investments, outsourced activities, and department health; department expectations, priorities, and plans for the upcoming year; and important attributes in outsourcing and managed services, among other key findings.
The results of this survey provide a detailed view of many of the challenges that IT departments across the consumer products, retail, and life sciences industries continue to face, particularly as they navigate the ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in the workplace.
Digitizing Insurance - Transforming Legacy Systems to Adopt Modern and Emergi...RapidValue
This paper explains how insurers can use the digitization (digitalization) opportunity to deliver greater value to their customers. It is also, revealed how the companies can gain competitive advantage. Insurers are able to engage more intensely with the existing customers and also, attract newer customers with the help of innovative products. Digitizing improves profitability and facilitates growth.
Investors sharply reduce their post-close valuations of companies that have completed acquisitions when data breaches are revealed.
Brunswick’s third annual data valuation survey also found that investors raise their post-deal valuations for companies that have demonstrated preparation for cybersecurity issues.
The survey results, which reflect the views of 208 buy-side investors and sell-side analysts across the US, UK, Europe, and Asia, offered good news for companies taking steps to address cybersecurity issues.
For more information please contact our Washington DC office:
www.brunswickgroup.com/contact-us/washington-dc/
Cybersecurity breaches in the government seem to be all over the news. The sheer number and wild variety of sources for these breaches led us to wonder what federal agencies are really dealing with. SolarWinds® partnered with leading government research provider Market Connections to survey 200 federal IT and IT security professionals to find out their top cybersecurity concerns and the obstacles they face when implementing IT security strategies.
The results of our survey include:
Detailed insight into the threats, challenges, and sources of cybersecurity breaches the government faces in its IT infrastructure
Top hindrances in the implementation of appropriate IT security tools
Strategies and courses of action being deployed by federal IT professionals to remediate cybersecurity threats
These results demonstrate that a broad and concerning range of cybersecurity threats plague government agencies. Federal IT pros must consider taking a more pragmatic and unified approach to addressing the availability, performance, and security of their infrastructures.
Visit http://www.solarwinds.com/federal to learn more.
Federal Cloud Computing Report - Market Connections & General Dynamics Inform...Market Connections, Inc.
A study from Market Connections, Inc and General Dynamics Information Technology (GDIT) reveals the state of federal government cloud computing plans, key benefits and challenges of cloud migration, and who is driving decisions about what cloud environments to use.
Slides used in VIP Customer Forums hosted by Cyber Rescue Alliance, for individual thought leaders.
These slides supported discussion about where Third Party Risk Management needs to go in the months and years ahead, in the face of dynamic cyber threats.
In a survey of U.S. technology and healthcare executives nationwide, Silicon Valley Bank found that companies believe cyber attacks are a serious threat to both their data and their business continuity.
Highlights
- 98% are maintaining or increasing resources devoted to cyber security
- 50% are increasing their cyber security resources, preparing for when, not if, cyber attacks occur
- Just 35% are completely or very confident in the security of their company information, and only 16% feel the same about their business partners
The decision to co-locate all or part of the data center facility can be a risky one. Because the decision to build vs. buy is essentially one of cost, IT decision makers must put in the time and effort in requirements gathering, determining the needs of the business, and selecting a co-location vendor to ensure the engagement is successful.
This solution set will take IT decision makers through the following process to select a co-location vendor that fits the organization’s needs:
* Determine if a co-location strategy is a fit with the business.
* Understand the market and vendor offerings.
* Evaluate vendor offerings and proposals.
* Manage the co-location relationship.
Use this solution set to ensure that the organization’s co-location strategy is a success.
AFCEA Cybersecurity through Continuous Monitoring: SolarWinds Survey Results ...SolarWinds
WINNER: Overall Best In Show at 2014 AFCEA® Cyber Conference Solutions Trail
In a 2014 survey by SolarWinds and Market Connections, federal government and military IT professionals stated that their biggest cybersecurity threats are people both malicious external attackers and clueless insiders. So how do Federal IT Pros prevent activity that can put their agencies security at risk and address these living cybersecurity threats when human behavior is out of their
control? Implementing continuous monitoring solutions can help federal agencies safeguard against human error and quickly identify vulnerabilities, compliance issues and other threats by automatically collecting data and reporting on the performance, availability and security posture of an IT infrastructure. While continuous monitoring of the performance of networks, applications, servers, and
more will not stop hackers from attempting to infiltrate a network or stop careless employees from accidental blunders, it can provide a first line of defense and critical insight into how the IT infrastructure is impacted. In this session you will learn: " The top cybersecurity threats plaguing agencies today and their sources " The types of continuous monitoring tools and technologies that can be leveraged by both IT operations and information security simultaneously to quickly detect and mitigate threats " How to overcome common obstacles and frustrations agencies face when implementing continuous monitoring solutions and what benefits they see upon implementation.
This comprehensive risk report provides a detailed analysis of potential risks and vulnerabilities within a company that conducts self-audits. Offering insights into both operational and financial aspects, the report identifies areas of concern, outlines risk mitigation strategies, and aims to enhance transparency and governance within the organization. By proactively addressing risks, the company demonstrates its commitment to effective self-regulation and sound business practices.
Perception Gaps in Cyber Resilience: What Are Your Blind Spots?Sarah Nirschl
Protecting enterprise systems against cyber threats is a strategic priority, yet only 42% of executives are confident they could recover without impacting their business from a cyber event. Find out the hidden risks of shadow IT, cloud and cyber insurance.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But there’s more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, you’ll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the “Approve” button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
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Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
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Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
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1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
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Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
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Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Legal Firms and the Struggle to Protect Sensitive Data
1. 1
2016 IT Disaster Recovery Planning and Preparedness Survey
Legal Firms and the Struggle
to Protect Sensitive Data
2. Table of Contents
Survey Objectives................................................................................................................................. 3
Survey Results................................................................................................................................... 4-10
Conclusion: Making Sense of the Data......................................................................................... 11
Key Insights................................................................................................................................... 12
Leverage IT Security and DR to Minimize Your Firm’s Risk........................................... 13
Why Firms are Turning to DRaaS........................................................................................... 14
3. Survey Overview
The demands of modernization in law firms have driven intense competition for innovation and service
to customers. But adopting innovations while also remaining secure from internal and external threats
have become a genuine concern.
As a leader in Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), with expertise in serving law firms, Bluelock
commissioned an online reader survey with ALM (parent company of Legaltech News, Law.com,
The American Lawyer, etc.) to assess the current state of the legal industry’s IT disaster recovery (DR)
preparedness, pressures and confidence. We conducted the survey by asking legal IT professionals
(66 total respondents) in October 2016, to explore the following:
Top three challenges to firms’ operations
Respondents named “data security” (69%),
“budget” (59%) and “overburdened IT teams”
(40%) as their biggest challenges
Confidence in current DR plan Respondents were very or somewhat confident (68%)
DR testing methods
Respondents were unsure of their
testing methods or had no tests (62%)
Increasing pressure from constituents
Respondents claimed increasing pressures
from auditors (51%) and clients (42%)
5. 5
Despite Top Challenges to IT Operations...
Choose the top 3 challenges your firm faces when it comes to successfully managing IT operations.
Data Security
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Budget
BYOD & Personal Devices
Big Data
Datacenter Transformation
Regulatory Compliance
Client Demands for Audits & Systems Availability
Overburdened IT Teams
Other
Getting Buy-In from Managing Partners
69%
59%
40%
22%
24%
16%
26%
31%
9%
5%
★
★
★
6. 6
The Majority of IT Pros Have Some Level
of Confidence in Disaster Recovery...
23% “very confident” | 45% “somewhat confident” | 20% “not sure” | 5% “somewhat confident” | 3% “not confident at all” | rest did not respond
Percentage of respondents
that expressed confidence
in their DR plan
68%
How confident are you that your disaster recovery (DR) plan is effective?
7. 7
But Most Aren’t Testing Their DR Plans
32% “not sure” | 16% “we don’t have a DR plan test” | 14% “we don’t have a DR plan”
Please indicate what type(s) of DR testing you are currently using.
62%
Percentage of respondents
who claimed they didn’t test or
didn’t know what tests they did
This means the 68% who claimed
confidence in their DR plans may
be overconfident.
Given their concerns for data security,
this doesn’t bode well. If no DR tests
are being done, then firms are not
proactively identifying their
vulnerabilities. This increases the
potential risk and impact of security
incidents or an IT service disruption.
8. 8
For those law firms conducting IT DR testing, sandbox simulations are most prevalent.
To thoroughly test disaster recovery plans and minimize risk, law firms should be initiating
sandbox simulation tests at least twice a year. When possible, full-scale testing is the most
true-to-life testing method and should be considered.
Test to Minimize Your Risk
Please indicate what type(s) of DR testing you are currently using.
10%
20%
30%
15%
25%
5%
Tabletop Tests
(Teams Review the DR Plan)
Sandbox Simulation
(Technology is Testing in Isolation,
with No Impact to Production)
Full-Scale Testing
(Full Failover and Failback Testing
of Production Environment)
0%
16%
28%
11%
9. 9
IT Departments are Facing Increased
Pressure from Auditors and Regulators
Percentage of respondents
that claimed to face audits
and regulations regarding IT
data protection
51%
23% “strongly agree” | 28% “somewhat agree” | 27% “neither agree nor disagree” | 14% “somewhat disagree” | 8% “strongly disagree”
How strongly do you agree with the following statement: “My organization is facing increasing pressure from IT audits and regulations”?
10. 10
Clients are Putting More Pressure
on IT Departments
42%
Percentage of respondents who claimed
clients are requesting information
about their firms’ IT operations and
data protection policies
Because law firms house large
quantities of sensitive client data,
IT departments are facing increased
scrutiny — especially those whose
law firms provide service to clients
in the banking industry.
11% “strongly agree” | 31% “somewhat agree” | 25% “neither agree nor disagree” | 13% “somewhat disagree” | 20% “strongly disagree”
How strongly do you agree with the following statement:
“More of my clients are requesting information about my firm’s IT operations and data protection policies”?
12. Key Insights
Success is Strained When IT Teams Lack Resources
IT professionals at legal firms are expected to be reactive to the needs of their partners.
However, stretched budgets (59%) and overburdened IT staff (40%) make it difficult to
embrace change in an era where it’s critical to mitigate risks. Because downtime can
be hugely detrimental to a firm’s reputation and livelihood, a proactive approach to DR
is essential.
In Cisco’s 2015 Annual Security Report, law firms ranked as the seventh most vulnerable business
sector to cyber attacks. Because legal proceedings often rely on sensitive client information,
hackers see an opportunity for profit and target firms for this data. No wonder 69% of respon-
dents have ranked “data security” as the biggest challenge to their firms’ IT operations.
Data Security is a Top Priority
Confidence Must Be Based On Evidence
Since data is has become a cornerstone of the modern legal practice, it’s no surprise that
regulators are taking more steps to ensure continuity and clients are requesting proof of
resiliency. Yet when 68% percent of respondents express confidence in their DR plans and
simultaneously fail to articulate their testing methods, constituents may see this disconnect as
an inability to survive in the face of crisis. 62% of firms don’t know what DR tests they perform
or have no DR tests at all, which poses a major security risk since vulnerabilities aren’t being
identified. Furthermore, it implies that their confidence in resiliency may be unfounded.
13. 13
Leverage IT Security and DR
to Minimize Your Firm’s Risk
Information Security practices need to have direct ties to IT incident response procedures. Law firms
are increasingly turning to more modern and secure IT disaster recovery solutions to improve their
security and resiliency posture. By leveraging Disaster-Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS), firms are
making huge strides from existing backup-based or depreciated infrastructure to overcoming tight
budget and personnel constraints with robust data protection.
Taking steps to improve a DR strategy protects
your law firm’s reputation, client trust and –
ultimately – revenue.
“The reality is if your information
system is taken down for whatever
reason: a flood, malware, hack
attack, etc., you still have a business
continuity and disaster recovery
issue on your hands.”
- Ken Beaver, TechTarget
14. 14
Why Law Firms are Turning to Bluelock
Legal firms are turning to Bluelock because we are dedicated to their security and empowerment.
Our Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) isn’t just data protection. It’s the seamless delivery of
a digital experience, no matter the technology, so that your firm can tackle your future with certainty.
Serving as an expert extension of your IT team in handling the end-to-end responsibilities of DR
planning, testing and maintenance, Bluelock gives your IT talent the freedom to focus on other,
more pressing objectives that drive direct value to your law firm.
Worried about proof to constituents? Our client portal, Bluelock Portfolio™, offers complete visibility
with recovery metrics for even the most skeptical stakeholders, auditors or clients. Our unique
service program, Recovery Assurance™, offers verifiable evidence of recoverability and security.
For more information about Bluelock, visit bluelock.com/law.
15. Jumpstart your strategy by visiting our
Practical Guide to DRaaS.
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