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BlueVoyant Announces Strategic Partnership With Argos Risk

riskacademy — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 09:52:27 +0000

BlueVoyant Will Utilize Argos Risk Data in Its Third-Party Cyber Risk Management Solution

BlueVoyant, a cybersecurity services company, announced a strategic partnership with Argos Risk, a leading provider of financial risk intelligence. The alliance will see data from Argos Risk’s AR Surveillance solution utilized in BlueVoyant’s third-party Cyber Risk Management (CRx) suite of services.

The aggregated, complementary third-party risk data will better enable BlueVoyant to provide customers with clarity into their own security posture, and visibility across their vendor ecosystem. This will be particularly valuable to high-target industries.

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“Argos Risk feeds non-cyber related insights from key sectors into BlueVoyant’s CRx services, allowing for a more holistic view of a business’ third-party cyber risk security posture. This enables it to directly address its clients’ exposure to cyber risk throughout the supply chain, enabling them to take immediate action,” says Jim Penrose, Chief Operating Officer at BlueVoyant.

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City hopes next week to recover after ransomware attack

riskacademy — Sun, 14 Jun 2020 13:24:47 +0000

David Brace, chief operating officer, said the goal is for most internal systems to be running as usual early next week.

KNOXVILLE, Tennessee — With at least some city departments feeling the effects of a ransomware attack, Knoxville leaders say they’re working around the clock and will keep at it this weekend in hopes of getting computer systems back to normal.

David Brace, chief operating officer, said the goal is for most internal systems to be running as usual early next week. After Thursday’s ransomware attack, city information technology staff shut down the network and switched to backup computers.

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GAO nudging agencies to take care of priority recommendations

riskacademy — Thu, 14 May 2020 19:45:09 +0000

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Priority recommendations — these are actions the Government Accountability Office advises agencies to maintain program and financial integrity and sustainability. In the last couple of weeks, GAO has reissued reminders on open recommendations. It’s a long list. For some highlights, Federal Drive with Tom Temin turned to GAO’s Chief Operating Officer Kate Siggerud.

Tom Temin: Ms. Siggerud, good to have you on.

Kate Siggerud: Thanks for having me.

Tom Temin: Now, we noticed this list coming out one by one of the lists of open recommendations that date back in some cases several years to agencies. You’re just rattling their cages to say, “Hey, we haven’t forgotten,” is that something you do periodically?

Kate Siggerud: Tom, we’ve been sending these priority recommendations every year starting in 2015. So this is our sixth year of sending these letters to the heads of agencies to remind them of those recommendations we view as the highest priority. For the last two years in 2019 and now in 2020, we have made…