Where executives can’t see a clear or immediate need to address IT vulnerabilities, risk management techniques are a great approach to communicate from a management level to the executive level, says ...

Uncertainty and risk are issues that virtually every business analyst must deal with, sooner or later. The consequences of not properly estimating and dealing with risk can be devastating. There’s a ...

Risk Concept Colorful Icons Set Regardless of the challenges a smaller group might have, a risk assessment is a baseline for any HIPAA program. The cost of this assessment is considerably less than a ...

Too many healthcare providers fail to conduct comprehensive, timely risk assessments, as required under HIPAA as well as the HITECH Act, says security consultant Kate Borten, president of The ...

A risk assessment tool has helped bring down the number of injuries staff get from psychiatric hospital patients.

I am a strong proponent of conducting a risks assessment as part of an overall ethics and compliance program. However, I often caution companies to balance benefits and costs, and not to conduct a ...

As part of our continuing series on the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act (MODPA), this installment focuses on risk assessments. MODPA requires businesses to perform ...

Pretrial risk assessment algorithms are intended to help judges make more informed decisions, but researchers have raised concerns not only about the fairness and accuracy of the tools themselves, but ...