Facebook Plagued by Recent Security Problems

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. Facebook is a prime target for cybercriminals. Because the social media giant is used by billions of people, the potential attack surface is huge, as are the potential rewards for malicious actors who succeed in exploiting its security flaws. Although the company can (more…)

RIMS Report: Active Shooter Preparedness For Your Organization

This post first appeared on Risk Management Monitor. Read the original article. More than 51 mass shootings have already been documented by GunViolenceArchive.org in 2019, many of which occurred in commercial settings and workplaces. It is clear that workplace shootings are occurring regularly in the United States. By customizing an active shooter plan that focuses on (more…)

OIG Special Report – FY 2018 Purchase Card Risk Assessment

This post first appeared on Office of Inspector General. Read the original article. Executive Summary In general, PBGC’s policies procedures and internal controls are designed to provide reasonable assurance for implementing and managing the PBGC charge card program and to mitigate the potential for fraud and misuse. Based on our review, we determined that the (more…)

BIAA Hopes to ‘Change Your Mind’ About Brain Injuries

This post first appeared on Risk Management Monitor. Read the original article. March is Brain Injury Awareness Month in the United States. According to the Brain Injury Association of America (BIAA), at least 5.3 million Americans live with a disability related to a traumatic brain injury (TBI) and with 280,000 attributable hospitalizations and 2.2 million (more…)

Taking Action on Climate Change

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. With the likelihood and potential impact of climate change-related risk only becoming more pressing, what can risk managers do to help their companies assess their exposure and determine how to respond? Last October, the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) reported (more…)

High Risk on the High Seas

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. Risk managers in the oil and gas industry must protect against the threats that vessels pose to their offshore assets located in marine environments, from hydrocarbon pipelines that traverse miles of navigable waterways to oil rigs and other marine assets scattered across remote (more…)

Tailoring Bespoke Best Practices

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. Best practices are often born out of failure. The deadly Tylenol poisoning spree in 1982, for example, became the model of crisis management. Parent company Johnson & Johnson acted quickly to pull product off shelves, publicly warned consumers not to use their product, (more…)

A Look at Corruption Risks in the ECA Region

This post first appeared on Risk Management Magazine. Read the original article. Corruption scandals are a common occurrence in many countries of the Europe-Caucasus-Asia (ECA) region, which consists of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. In just the past year, we have seen a number (more…)

RIMS Report: Making Sense of AI

This post first appeared on Risk Management Monitor. Read the original article. The risk of not adopting some form of artificial intelligence (AI) can be much greater than the potential risks of implementation according to the new RIMS Professional Report: Making Sense of Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Risk Management. Authored by RIMS Strategic (more…)