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Keep Up Security Awareness Training Until You Get It Right
Your organization should develop, document, and maintain a comprehensive Security Awareness Training Program. If security awareness...
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Ascent Portal Staff
- Sep 14, 2021
- 2 min
Security Implications of a Termination or Position Change
Security implications need to be considered and addressed to ensure the organization remains protected and safe from threats. When an...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Sep 8, 2021
- 2 min
Personnel Security Risk: Discipline or Regret? You Decide
It has been said that you can suffer the pain of discipline or you can suffer the pain of regret – the choice is yours. If personnel...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Sep 1, 2021
- 2 min
The Buck Stops Here: Security Program Control
Managers of all departments need to be involved with ensuring their teams are performing their assigned operational duties in accordance...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Aug 27, 2021
- 2 min
Personnel Security Program: Terms and Conditions of Employment
In our ongoing blog series on security program pitfalls, we’ve been focusing most recently on a personnel security program. Today’s post...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Aug 25, 2021
- 2 min
Personnel Security Program: Screening
All personnel need to be screened prior to starting employment. This helps to ensure organizations hire knowledgeable, ethical...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Aug 18, 2021
- 2 min
Personnel Security Program: Roles and Responsibilities
Personnel security is the focus of the third chapter of my eBook, Security Program Pitfalls and Prescription to Avoid Them, and the roles...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Aug 13, 2021
- 2 min
Supply Chain Risk Management
Poor supply chain risk management, or a total lack thereof, will have a negative impact on the long-term success of any organization....
Ascent Portal Staff
- Aug 9, 2021
- 2 min
Information Security Categorization and Risk Framing
Security categories for an organization’s information systems need to be defined to enable appropriate risk decisions to be made. Without...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Aug 4, 2021
- 2 min
Risk Treatment and Mitigation
Organizations need to have defined processes in place for completing risk treatment and risk mitigation activities once a risk assessment...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jul 30, 2021
- 2 min
Regular Risk Assessments Are Required
Once organizations have developed a risk management strategy and a risk management program, regular risk assessments should be performed...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jul 21, 2021
- 2 min
Pitfall #9 of 100: Risk Management Strategy
Pitfall #9 – Risk Management Strategy – is the first pitfall in the second chapter of my eBook, Security Program Pitfalls and...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jul 16, 2021
- 2 min
Security and Compliance Documentation Management
As promised, here is the second blog post of this week regarding the pitfalls from my eBook, Security Program Pitfalls and Prescription...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jul 12, 2021
- 2 min
Pitfall #7:Secuirty Program Continuous Monitoring
This week, I’ll be posting two blog posts regarding the pitfalls from my eBook, Security Program Pitfalls and Prescription to Avoid Them....
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jul 12, 2021
- 2 min
Risk Management Program: Support the Overall Strategy
Every successful risk management strategy needs to be supported by a risk management program, which is the focus of Pitfall #10 in my...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jul 7, 2021
- 2 min
Independent Reviews of the Security Program
With the Independence Day holiday earlier this week, the pitfall I’m highlighting here from my eBook, Security Program Pitfalls and...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jun 29, 2021
- 2 min
Pitfall #5 of 100: Management Reviews of the Security Program
A new week gives me another opportunity to highlight the next pitfall from my eBook, Security Program Pitfalls and Prescription to Avoid...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jun 24, 2021
- 2 min
Pitfall #4 of 100: Security Program Roles and Responsibilities
The next pitfall from my eBook, Security Program Pitfalls and Prescription to Avoid Them, that I’d like to highlight in this blog post is...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jun 23, 2021
- 2 min
Pitfall #3 of 100: Management Commitment to the Security Program
As part of our quest to highlight different pitfalls from my eBook Security Program Pitfalls and Prescription to Avoid Them, this blog...
Ascent Portal Staff
- Jun 16, 2021
- 2 min
Pitfall #2 of 100: Security Policies, Plans, and Procedures
Over the next year or so, we’ll be highlighting a different pitfall each week from the eBook Security Program Pitfalls and Prescription...
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