This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Wednesday, October 28, 2020 Dr. Karen Hardy Charting a decade of progress in how risk management enables better government. In 2010, the IBM Center for The Business of Government published my report, Managing Risk in Government: An Introduction to Enterprise Risk Management (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. The racial reckoning of recent months has raised the bar for business leaders. It is no longer enough for them to simply understand that a diverse group of employees, managers, executives and board members creates better results. They need to have the commitment (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. As evidenced by the recent Twitter breach, cybercriminals increasingly target users as a way to gain unauthorized access to privileged locations in an organization’s IT ecosystem. The Twitter breach is a bit of an anomaly in terms of data security events. While employees (more…)

This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Chief Financial Officer Department of Homeland Security Troy D. Edgar was confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on May 12, 2020 after serving as the Associate Deputy Under Secretary of (more…)

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. The federal government created the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) to help small companies stay afloat and to incentivize them to keep employees on their payrolls despite ongoing coronavirus-related declines in business. Since its inception, the program has delivered (through the Small Business Administration (more…)

This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found Modern airplanes are equipped with networks and systems that share data with the pilots, passengers, maintenance crews, other aircraft, and air-traffic controllers in ways that were not previously feasible (see fig. 1). As a result, if avionics systems are not properly (more…)

This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found Modern airplanes are equipped with networks and systems that share data with the pilots, passengers, maintenance crews, other aircraft, and air-traffic controllers in ways that were not previously feasible (see fig. 1). As a result, if avionics systems are not properly (more…)

This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found Information technology (IT) operational challenges have hampered the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) ability to effectively carry out its responsibilities. For example: In May 2020, GAO reported that new and continuing deficiencies in information system security controls over financial and tax processing (more…)

This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found The federal government and private industry are preparing for the next generation of wireless technology, known as the fifth generation of mobile communication networks, or 5G. 5G is expected to introduce national security risks as malicious actors seek to exploit these (more…)