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Great New Risk Management Document From The U.S. GAO

There is a new document from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), "STRENGTHENING THE USE OF RISK MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLES IN HOMELAND SECURITY"

It includes discussions of current risk management practices from non-government industries that are really quite interesting, not to mention some great risk management ideas and descriptions of risk management practices.

Check it out!

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Yea, that risk management stuff can be extremely important, especially for big-time companies that have to protect themselves. ill have to mention this to my boss and see if its the route he wants to go.
~Mike

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Rebecca Herold,CISSP, CIPP, CISM, CISA, FLMI, has been providing information security, privacy and regulatory assistance and services to organizations from a wide range of industries for over 18 years. Rebecca was instrumental in building the information security and privacy program while at Principal Financial Group, which was awarded the CSI Information Security Program of the Year Award in 1998. IT Security ranked Rebecca as one of the top 59 IT security influencers, and Computerworld put Rebecca their list of the 25 top privacy experts and on their list of the 9 best privacy consulting firms. Rebecca has been CPO for two consulting organizations, and has had her own information privacy, security and compliance business since 2004. Rebecca has written chapters for several books, dozens of articles, and has been writing a monthly privacy column for the CSI Alert newsletter since the beginning of 2001, and is working on her 11th book. Some of her other books include The Privacy Papers, Managing an Information Security and Privacy Awareness and Training Program, The Definitive Guide to Security Inside the Perimeter (Realtime Publishers), The Shortcut Guide to Improving IT Service Support through ITIL (Realtime Publishers), and The Practical Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security Compliance. In addition, Rebecca is the leader of The Realtime IT Compliance Community where she posts to her IT Compliance weblog. You can contact Rebecca at: rebecca_herold@realtimepublishers.net.