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Ascent Portal Staff
Sep 8, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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 9, 20212 min read
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
Jul 21, 20212 min read
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 12, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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 24, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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, 20212 min read
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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