IT Risk Management and Technical Debt
When you shove things higgledy-piggledy into your desk drawer, just to clear space in your workspace, you have a quick solution, you also have a dirty solution, because trying to find the key to your filing cabinet will take you ages afterwards, and Yes, you’ve just experienced technical debt, first hand!
6 Pitfalls in IT Risk Management
IT risk management is a common thread running through IT investments, IT security, IT disaster recovery, and business continuity.
Outward-Looking Business Continuity
It is easy to indulge in navel-gazing when it comes to business continuity. We examine your business, its components, its requirements, its objectives and the risks that could affect it.
Free Wi-Fi Spots Are Security Risks for the Unwary
Unsuspecting and easy to attack – users of public Wi-Fi spots are a hacker’s dream target. Cybercriminals don’t wear cat-burglar masks and striped t-shirts, so it may not be easy to see them. On the other hand, the smart user of a free Wi-Fi hotspot knows that he or she should assume that hackers are […]
Risk Management for the Masses! Or At Least For Each Project…
Risk management is one of those areas that are too often “somebody else’s responsibility”. Whether through lack of knowledge or indifference, it gets shunted off somewhere else and replaced with an approach of “it’ll be alright on the night”. Unfortunately, it frequently isn’t. Like business continuity or information security awareness, risk management should ideally be […]
Look Who’s Doing Risk Management
If you’re wondering how much risk management should become part of your organisation’s rulebook, you may already be looking around to see who else is doing it. Insurers and bankers are obvious examples, because their businesses are centred on risk calculation, whether in terms of setting insurance premiums or defining credit interest rates. Many insurers […]