Texts: Who Owns Them? And Why Does That Matter?
Do you issue company-owned phones? Or do you allow (maybe even encourage) employees to “BYOD” (bring your own device) and use it for work purposes? Two very different scenarios here, as company-owned phones are a company asset, and all the contents of those phones is generally considered to be the property of the company. However, BYOD adds a layer of complexity to the discussion, especially if the employee owns the phone number and the device.
A Markovian Approach to Risk Management
In the past few years, we have all heard more than once that we need to “trust the science.” When it comes to risk in this context, the science is what is referred to as a Markov Chain, or Markovian Process.
Gaining Perspectives on Risk
Given an ever-increasing global threat level, and more compliance issues than ever before with more emerging every day, advance warning becomes the single most critical step companies can take to aggregating risk and threats into a single view.
Cracking the Code on Data Breach Investigations
We all understand the cost of a data breach, whether it be reputational or financial ruin. In fact, in an actual data breach event, the best-case outcome is minimal damage because you cannot escape totally unscathed.
Hurricanes, Blizzards, and Pandemics... OH MY!
There’s a lot of justifiable fear walking into 2022, just as there was for our three heroes walking into the dark forest that night many years ago. What will our lions, tigers, and bears be in the coming 12 months?
The Risk Management Shell Game
Being in risk management today feels as much like a shell game at times as it does a strategic undertaking. We feel like we have our arms around likely risk factors and how to measure, monitor, and prepare for them, as well as how to have a solid posture on response when our defenses fail us, which at times they inevitably will.
Let the Past Inform the Future, but Not Define It
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. Let bygones be bygones. Forgive and forget. Relive and regret. Keep moving forward and don’t live in the past. You drive a car looking through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.
Remember the Future?
This week my wife and I were talking about the plans we had for 2020 last fall. A cross-country visit from our grandchildren, a vacation for us. All obviously postponed due the jarring effects of COVID. We talked about people we know who we lost to this awful virus and how…
ETHIX360 Recognized in Gartner May 2020 “Cool Vendors In Integrated Risk Management”
ETHIX360 is humbled by our recognition in Gartner’s May 2020 Cool Vendors in Integrated Risk Management report. J Rollins, ETHIX360’s CEO, said, “We were thrilled by this recognition and see it as validation of our hard work to innovate within the space.”
Compliance vs. Coronavirus
How should an extraordinary event like Coronavirus affect your corporate compliance policies? How should it affect or modify a work-at-home policy? At ETHIX360, we suggest that companies should have an Extraordinary Event Policy. Read more here.
Attn. Small to Medium Businesses: Risk Knows No Size
When it comes to risk, size doesn’t matter. Learn what to look for and how to overcome your small-to-medium business’ risks.
Estimating Vendor Risk
One of the not-so-fun things to do when you’re in business is to analyze risk management. This type of analysis can cover a wide range of unwanted exposure that could derail your efforts. For many, it is something that takes a back seat to what they may feel to be more pressing issues in the business world and instead give primary focus to their marketing and sales departments. Sadly, thinking in this way could do more damage to the bottom line than any gains they might make with a good marketing plan.
16 Questions to Help You Develop a Comprehensive Crisis Plan
The most important time you can spend on crisis communications is the time prior to the actual crisis. This is the time when you identify the most likely and difficult situations that could damage your organization’s reputation and ability to function effectively. By properly planning for the worst possible scenario you can then scale down the responses to lesser issues.
Who Needs to Have an Active Shooter Policy? Everyone!
There are a number of components to an active shooter policy – with a portion being to train employees what to actually do in the event of an active shooter scenario playing out at work. Hide? Run? What is the chain of command in the event of an incident? What if it is not in our offices, but is the one next door? Safe evacuation. Communicating clearly with first responders when you can.
What Corporate Compliance Programs Can Teach Us About School Safety
Working in the world of corporate ethics and compliance for the past decade has taught me that visibility leads to knowledge. One of my favorite quotes is from Confucius, “Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.” I think many of the school systems across the US have a blind spot and do not realize that what worked yesterday may not work today, and certainly will not work tomorrow.