Insight on Risk-Based Security

The SEC’s perspectives on board level risk and risk assessments.

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Six Steps of Risk Assessment

A risk assessment is among the first steps in all risk frameworks, standards and guidelines. In this video we'll discuss how to conduct a comprehensive risk assessment according to one of those standards - ISO 31000 - and how SEC Collective Knowledge can help along the way.
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Influencing Enterprise Risk Mitigation

Threats come from all angles, in many forms, and sometimes all at once. Having a strategic perspective on comprehensive risk mitigation is paramount. In Influencing Enterprise Risk Mitigation, Francis J. D’Addario lays the groundwork for looking at risk comprehensively, always while keeping people – our most important asset – safe...
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Top Security Risk Trends

A look at the top risk trends from the practitioner's perspective.
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Top Security Risk to Organizations Today - 2021

See the latest results of this practitioner poll and compare to previous editions in our archive going back almost ten years.
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Reimagine Risk and Security: Evolving Beyond COVID

If we want to adapt to an uncertain future, we first must look at what we’re doing now, why and how we’re doing it, and then examine whether that model matches the reality we are facing.
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Security Risk Assessment Success Factors

Taking these ten factors into account can make the difference between doing an assessment and doing an assessment that truly enhances your organization.
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Security Risk Assessment: What Not to Do

It is best to avoid these errors when planning your next risk assessment.
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Security Barometer Results: Risk Assessments

This Security Barometer explores whether risk assessments are being done for proactive or reactionary reasons.
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Lack of Executive Support? Hit Them with a Board (Level Risk)

This resource will help you communicate the role security can play in addressing the most significant risks to the organization.
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Unified Risk Oversight™ - SEC and Security Leadership Research Institute Foundational Findings

Risk management is cross functional and without a unified approach the risk of gaps and duplication can be hazardous to your organization.
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Site Risk Assessment Scoring Template

After conducting risk assessments at each of your sites you should think about how to analyze and communicate the results.
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Transitioning from Risk Assessment to Plan

Conducting a security risk assessment is an essential first step in developing successful security programs. But what should the security practitioner do with the results?
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Establishing the Value of All-Hazards Risk Mitigation (Parts 1-5)

Companies can tangibly enhance enterprise risk mitigation and brand by prioritizing people across the organization.
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The Mission is Not Cybersecurity- It's Enterprise Security

Security's current business model can deliver on the routine service demands, but our role in meeting these increasingly consequential risks will require a much more inclusive and mature presence.
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Six Questions to Ask Yourself About Security Risk Assessments

Insight to help security practitioners evaluate their current risk assessment program and suggestions on ways to improve it.
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Threat Assessment: Measuring Likelihood

When you think about security threats to your business, which do you think are likely to manifest? What are the probabilities of a specific type of event occurring at a particular location? How do you convey your concerns to management without sounding like Chicken Little yelling that the sky is falling?
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The Risk-Aware Organization

Security practitioners often equate security awareness programs with posters in break rooms, intranet alerts and informative brochures on the risk of the month. While these media serve a useful purpose, Security’s risk awareness strategy must be significantly more disciplined and structured than a periodic communication exercise.
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Site Risk/Threat Assessment Ranking Template

This template was designed to assist security leaders in ranking risk and mitigation priorities, which is one fundamental part of a comprehensive risk management strategy.
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Faculty Advisor: Where is Security’s best Opportunity in Enterprise Risk Management?

Q. Our organization has identified risks using Enterprise Risk Management but as far as execution across the enterprise we are floundering. Also, Security is not as involved as I think we should be. Any thoughts on better managing risks across the company’s businesses? How can we strive for operational excellence in this area?
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A Risk Quantification Process

Having a list of security-related business risks and their associated countermeasures is an essential part of the risk management process.
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The Essentials of a Physical Security Systems Risk Assessment

This brief guide includes identifying goals, assessing the needs of the business, and combining the fundamental elements of security into a coherent assessment of risk.
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Balancing Board-Level Risk

Many Boards of Directors are re-examining their structure and processes to ensure that risk is appropriately identified, managed, and monitored.
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Security Barometer: How is Your Organization Approaching Assessing Risks?

This 2017 Security Barometer poll shows steps security practitioners use to assess risk and how well they feel their organization is tackling significant security risks overall.
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Making the Case for an Operational Risk Leadership Advisory Council

We find that, despite best intentions, enterprise risk management often fails. Risk mitigation assurance requires that we get beyond one-dimensional, compliance-only, enterprise risk "list" management.
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Managing Enterprise-Wide Board Risk

One risk failure at a single point in a company or its supplier network - particularly one picked up by the media - can now have a profound effect across the entire enterprise.
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Threat/Risk Management Process Chart

This chart provides an easy to understand diagram of a process with which to make security risk management decisions.
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