A risk assessment framework is an effective approach to understanding and evaluating your organization’s security risks. Using these frameworks will enable you to prioritize your projects better and help align your security goals with existing operational goals and objectives.
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A Beginner’s Guide To Choosing A Risk Assessment Framework
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Announcing The New Website
We are delighted to announce the launch of our new website!
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Risk without Romance
It is a popular belief that security departments are seen by their parent organizations as mere cost centers, necessary evils, or mindless regulatory requirements. This belief is reinforced when budget requests are denied, and new responsibilities are piled on without concern for resource constraints.
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A Universal Translator: Business Impact & Security
Why don’t other business units read your Security Risk Assessments? Because they aren’t written in their language. Asset inventories and Business Impact Analysis are the most commonly skipped components of a comprehensive risk assessment.
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Proportional Response: COVID-19 In Security Context
Security teams everywhere are being forced to re-evaluate their priorities in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. Operations are changing week by week and new emergency plans are being written and executed faster than ever. When resources are pulled from existing security programs to address this new and rising threat, how can security leaders make the case for proportionality?
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See the Gaps in Your EOP before the Emergency
The COVID-19 outbreak is changing conditions day by day for essential service providers.
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Case Study: Bethel University Elevates Security with Quill
Zach Hill is the Director of Risk Management, Safety & Security at Bethel Univeristy. He uses Quill Security to make decisions and communicate those decisions to students, staff and leadership.
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Understanding Your Barriers To Better Security
“The biggest challenge I have is clearly communicating how our security programs and strategies affect the bottom line and bring value to the company as a whole. Company [Business Units] are always competing for resources. Finding effective ways to measure performance, communicate what we are doing, reflect how it benefits the company either in cost savings, risk avoidance or improved efficiencies is the key to unlocking additional resources or expanding programs.”
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Continuous Planning for Security
Reality is different. Merely determining your risk and vulnerability can be a lengthy and costly proposition. Many organizations work with consultants who come on-site to observe, interview, and survey. Then months can pass before the actual analysis and report is delivered.
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CEO Interview with Lewis Werner
Quill Security CEO, Lewis Werner, was recently interviewed in Webbiquity by Tom Pick. Below are some excerpts form the piece.
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What is your Quill Score?
Safety and security professionals know this challenge well: You’ve got too few people to manage too many risks, across too many locations. Your aging equipment is in need of repair. And you’re expected to maintain a perfect record while your invisible wins go unacknowledged.
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What is a Risk Map?
Businesses often push physical security to the side, in favor of more “pressing” issues such as quarterly financials or product development, but these pressing concerns can only be achieved in a safe and secure working environment. As organizations grow, inner workings become more complex. Risk managers are hired to deal with insurance and financial risk, but are seldom educated to deal with physical security risk.
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