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Assessing Reputational Risk for Occupational Safety & Health
Last week, Insurance News Net’s Trish Ennis examined the relationship between occupational health, safety risk management and reputational risk. Texas City refinery. Upper Big Branch mine. Deepwater...
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Where Do Risks Come From? Risk Assessment Mistakes
The Harvard Business Review’s article “How to Live with Risks” reveals a common misconception that risk managers have about the sources of their risks, and how they should be conducting risk...
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ERM Report: the EPA Spill & Better Risk Assessments
Last week, a “mistake” by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) caused “millions of gallons of pollutants” to overpower the Animas River in Colorado. The EPA, responsible for maintaining and...
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How to Uncover Risk with Enterprise Risk Management
During a Department of Defense News briefing in 2002, Donald Rumsfeld encouraged his team to consider their blind spots when making decisions. To simplify Rumsfeld’s categorizations of knowledge, if a...
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Increased Controls without Risk Assessments Negatively Impacts Revenue
While data breaches have dominated the news cycle, The Wall Street Journal’s “Risk and Compliance Journal,” reports that fraud is actually much more common, even if it generates fewer headlines. In the...
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4 Ways to Prevent Business Surprises with Risk Identification
Nobody likes surprises in business. Using a risk-based approach to identify your organization’s likely vulnerabilities is highly recommended and vital to short-term and long-term success. Expanding...
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Ignorance Is No Longer an Excuse for Poor Board Oversight
Gerry Grimstone, keynote speaker at the IIA’s recent conference in London, has a message for senior executives. “You can’t easily blame a board member for not knowing something,” Grimstone said. “But...
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Cyber-Threat Management Requires a Risk-Based Approach
The concept of cyberattacks, while still disturbing, is no longer as new and unfamiliar as it was five years ago. However, we are still seeing money invested in inefficient and ineffective risk...
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Cybersecurity is a “Must” for Credit Unions
Credit union online news agency CUInsight.com recently published an article declaring cybersecurity a “must” for credit unions. In support of its position, author Stuart Levine cites more than 400...
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5 Steps for Creating an Effective Business Continuity Plan
At LogicManager, we are firm believers that embracing risk management can result in two boons: ease of mind and success. On a related note, we recently came across an article by Carl Richards in The...
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5 Tips for More Effective Risk Assessments
Regular risk assessments are one of the most important pillars of any risk management department. Although performing risk assessments is now considered best practice, it’s easy to overestimate their...
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The Wells Fargo Scandal is a Failure in Risk Management
Wells Fargo recently paid $185 million in penalties – the highest fine levied by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) since it began operations in 2011 – for inappropriate sales practices....
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Why Mitigating Cyber Risk Should Be a Top Executive Priority
Cyber Risk Needs to be Prioritized: Three Points for Improvement Cyber risks like data breaches and ransomware are too often shrugged aside. The possibility of a cyberattack is rarely ignored, but it...
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Why Mitigating Cyber Risk Should Be a Top Executive Priority
Cyber Risk Needs to be Prioritized: Four Points for Improvement Cyber risks like data breaches and ransomware are too often shrugged aside. The possibility of a cyberattack is rarely ignored, but it...
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Healthcare Breach and $400,000 Penalty Result From Poor Risk Assessments
Breaches are preventable failures in risk management. A healthcare breach at Metro Community Provider Network (MCPN), a federally approved organization, led to a $400,000 penalty and a mandated...
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Wells Fargo Auto Loan Scandal: The Saga Continues (Part 2)
The blows keep on coming for Wells Fargo. Within a year of their cross-selling scandal, two more scandals have risen to the top of news headlines. In part one of this series, I set out to make good on...
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Equifax Data Breach: What Businesses Should Be Doing
As I watch the Equifax scandal unfold, it becomes clear to me that many are at a loss of what to do, or even how to think about this data breach. The first reaction people have is centered on if they,...
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Ignorance Is No Longer an Excuse for Poor Board Oversight
Gerry Grimstone, keynote speaker at the IIA’s recent conference in London, has a message for senior executives. “You can’t easily blame a board member for not knowing something,” Grimstone said. “But...
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Cyber-Threat Management Requires a Risk-Based Approach
The concept of cyberattacks, while still disturbing, is no longer as new and unfamiliar as it was five years ago. However, we are still seeing money invested in inefficient and ineffective risk...
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Cybersecurity is a “Must” for Credit Unions
Credit union online news agency CUInsight.com recently published an article declaring cybersecurity a “must” for credit unions. In support of its position, author Stuart Levine cites more than 400...
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