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Cybersecurity vulnerabilities are a concern for every company in every industry. In 2016, 4.2 billion records were stolen during 4,149 reported data breaches. This doesn’t take into account breaches not noted in the public record.

According to a Ponemon Institute survey, while security incidents have expensive consequences, costs associated with reputational damage are even greater. That explains why more than 60% of executives are primarily concerned with negative brand impact, according to the

6 Tools Entrepreneurs Must Master

Many a blog or article piece on banking risk and regulation have started with the words ‘since the 2007/2008 financial crisis…’. This is as a result of the fundamental regulatory changes that have occurred since. The industry has seen a tsunami of regulations that have swept through the industry and stretched banks resources, increased their overall capital requirements and profoundly effected how banks operate. Add on top of this the UK’s decision on 23 June, 2016 to vote to leave the EU and th

This post isn’t exactly a “how to” but if your current employment isn’t bringing in the bacon, I’m sure your criminal mind can figure it out. In the biggest digital advertising fraud in the history of the U.S., it was recently found that a group of hackers is bringing in from $3 million to $5 million a day from media companies and brands. That’s some scratch!

White Ops, an online fraud-prevention firm, uncovered this campaign, which they have called “Methbot,” and the firm found that the campaign

Trump Issues Orders to Roll Back Bank Regulations Adopted in the Wake of the 2008 Wall Street Crash

Risk management is ultimately about creating a culture that would facilitate risk discussion when performing business activities or making any strategic, investment or project decision.

In this free book, Alex Sidorenko and Elena Demidenko talk about practical steps risk managers can take to integrate risk management into decision making and core business processes. Based on our research and the interviews, we have summarised fifteen practical ideas on how to improve the integration of risk manag

This year has started similarly to last with plenty on the airwaves about disruption and the need for innovation and THE strategy before someone else creates a category killer.

The truth is, for every new strategy success story, there is a mountain of non-success stories. Not failures, just failures to come up with THE killer strategy so you become one of those organisations everyone uses as an example of innovation and disruption.

Also, most organisations are not being disrupted as fast and as ro

PowerCenter architecture is based on client-server model. It consists of PowerCenter server and PowerCenter client tools. Below is a list of all of the components that are part of the PowerCenter architecture.

Informatica PowerCenter Domain

In its simple terms, Domain can be defined as an environment. You will have a PowerCenter domain for each               environment. For example, if you have Development, Test and Production environments, you essentially create 3 different domains — one for eac

According to a recent study, online security for most people is too bothersome. The US National Institute of Standards and Technology published the study, which shows that most people who use the internet have just given up and don’t follow the advice given to them about online security.

The result of this is that consumers are engaging in risky online behavior, and according to one survey participant, if “something happens, it is going to happen” and “it is not the end of the world.”

This is conc

You Only Have 25,550 Days of Average Life to Live

Published on Jun 24, 2014

Source: Words of Peace via YouTube

How many days does the average person live? This video addresses the topic with humor, surprise and poignancy, combining infographic-style motion graphics with excerpts from Prem Rawat's talks and "man-on-the-street" interviews.

Watch the YouTube video in the following link below:

25,550 Days of Average Life to Live

Couple of weeks ago I was very fortunate to get to Malta and host one of the roundtables during the FERMA risk seminar. I am very thankful for the opportunity because the experience of brainstorming for 45 mins with the representatives from various small and medium enterprises (SMEs) really highlighted some major problems with modern day risk management and risk managers.

Here are three things that I think all of us could learn from managing risk at SMEs:

A. SMEs simply can't afford to waste time

If you have a cell phone, and you use it in any way associated with accessing online accounts (and many do), you are putting yourself at risk of getting hacked. With only a phone number and a bit of information, which is easy to get through social engineering, a hacker can break into your personal and financial accounts.

This works by getting information about you, such as your birthday, address, or even the last four digits of your Social Security number…information that is readily available…and

Dear Global Risk Community member

Join us at our new webinar https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/8271/236353     "Cyber Wack-a-mole It is not a game".

Chasing and fixing cyber threats can be depressing, rather like the old 'wack-a-mole' game. No matter how quick you are in knocking down the threat, or mole, new ones appear. We will present a strategy to break the cycle. 

You will still need to fight the cyber threats but you will have a way to become proactive and not be easy prey for the cyber

Business Model Innovation Presentation: The New Trigger for Great Startups

Source: SlideShare featuring David Skok, General Partner at Matrix Partners

Unlike the past where technology innovation was the primary driver of startup creation, in the last ten years, it has frequently been innovation in new business models that has caused the disruption to create the opening for new companies. This presentation by David Skok of Matrix Partners looks in depth at the key business model changes that are ca

Customer Acquisition & Monetization - Keys to your Business Model

Source: Slide Share featuring David Skok, General Partner at Matrix Partners

Presentation describing how Cost of Customer Acquisition (CAC) and Monetization (LTV) are they key elements to get right for a successful business model. Also describes the latest techniques for reducing CAC, including Inbound Marketing, and the author's own methodology: Building a Sales & Marketing Machine.

You can download the presentation in the below lin

Recently I was speaking to someone who works as a back-office advisor in one of the big global banks. We were talking about the challenge the back-office often has in getting their point across to the “producers” in organisations. He said the nickname for his team members is BPOs which is an acronym for Business Prevention Officer. Oh, why do they dislike us so?

He then went on to say that the bank was fined last year for doing deals remarkably similar to the deals they were previously fined for

Martin Luther King's Pearl Of Wisdom!

Published on Jan 13, 2017

Source: Slide Share

Assassinated on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. will be remembered for exemplary civil work and of course his ‘I Have a Dream’ speech. King was a Baptist minister and an activist leader in the Civil Right Movements. He got into college at age 15, held a PhD, received a Nobel Peace Prize and there is a holiday kept in his honor. He was arrested 29 times and was the target of several assassination attempts. He f

Globalization and Social Inequality: Obscene Wealth of Eight Mega-Billionaires

Designing the Future by Applying System Dynamics Thinking

Presentation Based on the Work of Founder Dr. Jay W. Forrester

Understanding System Behavior by Identifying System Structure

Systems in Technology and Society

• Everyone speaks of systems: computer systems, air traffic control systems, economic systems, and social systems. However, few people realize that systems exist everywhere. Systems influence everything we do. Systems create the puzzling difficulties that confront us every day.

•Understa

A new book has just been released, that will the world of risk "outside-in."

The Uncertainty Advantage (Leadership lessons for turning risk outside-in) is written by Gary S. Lynch, a career expert in risk management and related topics. Lynch's latest book (his third) describes the process of turning uncertainty into market advantage. As he points out, risk cannot truly be managed. However, uncertainty can be navigated by organizational leaders to create situations advantageous to the organization