Risk Management news from FierceCIO

Asking risky questions can lead to discomfort or even embarrassment, and the business culture has conditioned people to avoid those outcomes. However, by sidestepping such questions, risk is Read more...

With expanding regulatory requirements, increasingly active shareholders, and general economic uncertainty, risk seems to taunt the corporation from every direction these days. As a result, Read more...

Being on the leading edge of IT can give a company a certain distinction and glamour, but is it really a sound business strategy? When it comes to information security technology, sometimes, it may Read more...

The string of high-profile IT and data services failures in recent weeks--including the Epsilon data breach, Amazon web services outage and the PlayStation Network problems--gives some credence to Read more...

Getting money to invest in information security, in the absence of a major breach, has always been a challenge. Part of the difficulty can be overcome if information professionals learn to frame the Read more...

With new risk management guidelines for federal agencies in place, chief information security officers may be challenged by risk experts in their organizations. The developments in the government Read more...

Recent data breaches at three universities highlight the risk of human error when it comes to protecting confidential data. All three breaches were caused by employee mistakes rather than any kind of Read more...

The more precisely a risk can be assessed, the more easily it can be prioritized. However, the traditional model of assessing risk by multiplying potential loss by the likelihood of occurrence is too Read more...

Security risks are rising in the enterprise, and so is the need to present a united front in managing those risks. More than ever before, IT executives must be able to express to the business the Read more...

The subject of software security has never been particularly uplifting, but it seems to be getting more depressing as software underpins more and more aspects of our lives. Managing routine Read more...