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Image Blog Control Maturity vs. Control Risk: A Client Discussion July 17, 2017 A client for whom I serve as CISO advisor posed an interesting question to me last week, “What if we measure and report on control maturity instead of....
Image Blog Risk Management and Intelligence: What is Your End Game? May 30, 2017 Anyone worth their salt in the world of cyber threat intelligence is always focused on the actionable outcome – how can I lower my business risk by....
Image Blog Three Steps for Management and Remediation of Security Vulnerabilities with Third Parties May 23, 2017 Over the years, security organizations have had to deal with many vulnerabilities that required quick response and remediation. Some examples that....
Image Blog PCI Compliance Every Day May 09, 2017 The title of this post sounds daunting, does it not? However, achieving PCI compliance every day is not as daunting as you might think. With the....
Image Blog Three Steps to Enhancing Your Third-Party Risk Program April 05, 2017 In the world of third-party and vendor risk management, many new practices are being adopted. Over the past few weeks, members of Optiv’s third-party....
Image Blog OCC Updated Guidance on Third-Party Risk March 15, 2017 Recently, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), released updated guidance for bank examiners as they scrutinize third-party risk....
Image Blog MSSQL Agent Jobs for Command Execution September 20, 2016 The primary purpose of the Optiv attack and penetration testing (A&P) team is to simulate adversarial threat activity in an effort to test the....
Image Blog No one plans to fail, but many fail to plan August 30, 2016 In the information security community, we talk often about incident response plans and the need to conduct regular tabletop exercises. Where we fail....
Image Blog Business Driven Vendor Risk Assessment Template August 22, 2016 The pace and level of outsourcing has continued to evolve and now includes any and all business areas and cloud services. Outsourcing decisions often....
Image Blog PCI DSS Version 3.2 Released May 01, 2016 Last Thursday, April 28, 2016 the PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) released version 3.2 of the PCI Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). To save....