In today’s world of interlocked companies and IT service providers, it’s standard practice for a company to ask its tech suppliers to fill out detailed questionnaires about their security practices.

Cybersecurity risk assessments can aid agencies as they search for IT security vulnerabilities in a world of rapidly evolving threats. Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech ...

[Excerpted from "How to Conduct an Effective IT Security Risk Assessment," a new report posted this week on Dark Reading's Risk Management Tech Center.] Many security and compliance projects begin ...

As IT organizations seek to make better risk-based decisions about security practices, perhaps the No. 1 component for success is the IT risk assessment. However, even when organizations actually ...

Too many healthcare providers fail to conduct comprehensive, timely risk assessments, as required under HIPAA as well as the HITECH Act, says security consultant Kate Borten, president of The ...

Although this IT risk assessment template deals with risk assessment for disaster recovery requirements, it can be customized for other IT requirements. Head this way ...

Nashville-based CPA firm LBMC has introduced the application Ballast for organizations that have compliance requirements for information security risk assessments. Ballast automates the assessment ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 29, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Companies facing compliance requirements for information security risk assessments, such as those in healthcare and finance, now have access to a new ...

One-quarter of healthcare organizations do not conduct security risk assessments, according to the 2011 HIMSS Security Survey (pdf). The assessment is a requirement for both HIPAA and the electronic ...

In 2017, the Security Leadership Research Institute (the Security Executive Council’s research arm) asked security practitioners to choose from a list of which risk-related activities their security ...

The Department of Health and Human Services is seeking comments on how it can improve its security risk assessment tool, which is designed to help smaller organizations conduct assessments as required ...