Our Lead Non-Technical Auditor takes a look at the new AIO Guidance… Architecture, Infrastructure, and Operations (AIO) is the latest booklet released by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) in their line of  IT Examination Handbooks. It is an update to their 2004 Operations booklet and, as the name implies, expands into the areas […]

Many organizations still fail to consider the unique risks posed by cloud computing… An article review. Last month thousands of Western Digital MyCloud device owners learned about the risks of cloud-based solutions the hard way: their data had been wiped remotely due to a flaw in the internet-facing component of their external hard drives. While […]

Employees working from home may find it more difficult to follow security policies… An article review. The surge in employees working from home during the pandemic created many headaches for IT departments around the world, many of whom had no telecommuting policies or procedures before the start… but what about the employees who had to […]

A Webinar-Movie infotex presents the 2021 update of a previously released webinar presented by our Lead Non-Technical Auditor, Adam Reynolds. This movie-short is intended for those who are planning to participate in an infotex Incident Response Test. Not sure about the importance of an Incident Response Test? Check out onetest.infotex.com for more information! Please let […]

Another Manifesto A supply-chain manifesto by the author of Never Say Never: A Password Manifesto! Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . [Sssshh.  Turn out the lights.  Let’s lower our inner voices, as I have something to propose that might be a bit […]

The cybersecurity industry faces challenges, and some of them may involve your business… An article review. In a world where threats to your organization’s electronic assets are constantly emerging and evolving a cybersecurity insurance policy can help mitigate risk…but what kind of risk does the cybersecurity insurance industry face?  A new article in the Harvard […]

Turning Letters into Lemonade . . . Could Marketing Messages be Pre-Planned Into Response? Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . Something I just noticed: I now know what Yandex is. And I would not have known about this interesting browser had it […]

An Assist for Your Incident Response Team . . . To be Used for Incidents! Another one of those Dan’s New Leaf Posts, meant to inspire thought about IT Governance . . . . I want to circle back around to an article written by Matt Jolley CISA, our resident researcher, who spent months compiling […]

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Thanks for being interested in our Technology Planning Webinars! This year‘s annual webinar on the subject will include a review of the previous years’ movies that are already available, and a discussion about alternative tactics that have arisen from recent virtual conferences and regulator panels. Below is the 2020 Technology Planning movie! We will be […]