Can Your Leaders “Decisions” Affect Your Company’s Future or Profits?

And the answer is…………..you decide… Twitter threatens trade secrets lawsuit over Meta’s Threads app. Alex Spiro, a lawyer for Twitter, accused Meta of engaging in “systemic, wilful and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property” in a letter addressed to Zuckerberg dated Wednesday. The letter claimed that Meta had hired “dozens” of…

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Global Cyber Breach: The Need to Manage Vendor Risks, People Risks and More…

Several US federal government agencies have been hit in a global cyberattack by Russian cybercriminals that exploits a vulnerability in widely used software, according to a top US cybersecurity agency. Aside from US government agencies, “several hundred” companies and organizations in the US could be affected by the hacking spree, (according to a CNN report). Since late last month,…

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Insider Risk Management

While the entirety of risk management is undoubtedly now more complicated, Insider Risk in particular continues to be one of the most difficult to detect and reduce. CISA defines insider threat as the threat that an insider will use their authorized access, intentionally or unintentionally, to do harm to the department’s mission, resources, personnel, facilities,…

Doesn’t Anyone do Due Diligence or Deep Dives Anymore?

The FTX failure has put a renewed emphasis on the value of an excellent deep dive into your people, processes, and systems (Operational Risk), And by the way, not deep dives as a post-mortem (after the risk impact) but as a “pre-mortem” (proactive and anticipatory). “These days, it is hard to know what due diligence…

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Get Off Your Ass and Do Something: Risk Management is Real

Hey colleagues, This may be me venting or projecting, but I have penned this “thesis” for sharing, but I thought I will share it with you first. It is a first draft (pen to paper) and so I am not asking/expecting agreement, but in critiquing, please apply your risk knowledge/risk intelligence. And, yes, I feel very strongly…

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Why are there no EXISTING Operational or ERM Risk Professionals Included?

Fellow colleagues, Please check the link below and share your thoughts/answers to my questions below.This is not meant to be controversial nor am I casting any aspersions and with the greatest respect to the speakers, why aren’t any CURRENT and practicing Operational or ERM risk professionals on the list of speakers, as best as I…

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What is your “LOTUS OF CONTROL”?

Can your lotus of control affect or influence your business decision-making capability? Locus of control describes the degree to which individuals perceive that outcomes result from their own behaviors, or from forces that are external to themselves. This produces a continuum with external control at one end and internal control at the other As the environment…

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Note to Leaders: Lessons from Ukraine

In early 2019 the World Economic Forum (WEF) in its annual Global Risk Report warned all of us that escalating divisions amongst our Major Nations meant that we were no longer collaborating on addressing the world’s most pressing threats. For this reason, the WEF warned that we were potentially “sleepwalking towards crisis”. However, a global pandemic…

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The Paria diving Disaster: “Pre Motems” are much better that “Post Mortems”

Condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of those who lost their lives in this catastrophe. The best way for the leaders of these institutions to honor those lives lost is not by talking but by acting. There is a maxim that says: “the uninspected usually deteriorates”. There are risks and hazards (and they are not always the same) that may…