Severe floods in your area are going to cause you to search for your car insurance paper to answer the difficult question: does car insurance cover flooding? The answer to this question is essential for businesses like yours. It can influence your investments and the type of insurance options that you can afford. Don't wait for a flood to hit before answering the question “does car insurance cover flooding?” Instead, take the time to read this article to learn more about this complex issue. While it might seem somewhat straightforward, it can be more complicated than you'd think. Does … [Read more...]
8 Effective Strategies for Automated Software Testing
Businesses test software and programs for a number of reasons. One of the most critical is to maintain compliance standards for all software in operation. These standards are established internally, set by the company itself, or come from an external source. Basically, this is what specialists call an automated software testing process. Outside sources set guidelines and regulations for any particular business venture, so adherence to these compliance standards is essential. The method of testing used depends on the specific regulation or importance of the software. The Best Automated … [Read more...]
The Best Compliance Solutions Companies in the US
Put simply, compliance is achieved by implementing guidelines and specifications dictated by a body of standards. By conforming to a set of rules, organizations ensure they are following relevant laws, policies, and regulations. Although the complexity of these regulations varies according to each particular industry or field, becoming compliant is always a daunting task. Luckily, there are certain compliance solutions companies that offer effective services, relieving much of the pressure. Through a variety of services, compliance solutions companies help an organization coordinate … [Read more...]
What Is SOX Compliance and How to Apply It
In areas like accounting and finances, compliances exist to provide a set of standards that organizations should continuously work towards meeting. These standards consist of laws, policies, and regulations created to protect the interests of society at large. With the objective of protecting shareholders and the general public from malpractices in an enterprise, SOX compliance is no different. It does its job by requiring publicly held companies to establish and enforce internal control procedures to reduce corporate fraud. Even though SOX compliance applies to the entirety of an … [Read more...]
HIPAA Compliance Definition and What You Need to Do to Make Your Company HIPPA Compliant
There are very few things that are more private than a person's private medical information. Apart from being extremely personal and often sensitive, this information can be used by criminals in many different ways. That is the main reason why HIPPA compliance was put in place. By setting a standard for protecting sensitive patient information, HIPPA compliance ensures that the people's right to privacy is not violated in any way. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act includes any organization, entity or individual that provides medical treatment or healthcare of any … [Read more...]
How Terrorist Attacks in the US Affected Businesses and How to Protect Yours
It is an uncertain world, and the disasters that can befall a commercial enterprise are many and varied. Some of the best-known calamities involve the natural world, such as fires and floods, and there is always a possibility for things to go wrong through societal breakdown, incompetence or simply bad luck. A bridge collapse, road closure or economic downturn all fall into these categories. On the other hand, we deal with terrorist attacks in the US. Unfortunately, there is also the possibility that human maliciousness and the capacity for violence could cause problems for your … [Read more...]
Terrorist Attacks and How They Should Affect Your Business
Terrorist attacks are an exceedingly rare occurrence in the modern world, but they have a wide coverage on international news and social media. This makes them a major topic on everyone's mind. Businesses run on complex interrelationships between themselves, their customers and their society. Thus, the effects of terrorism and of the threat of terrorism on commerce can be chaotic. Some businesses will profit, but the vast majority may well decline. A very, very few businesses will experience terrorist attacks personally. They will see both the worst of humanity, and during the recovery they … [Read more...]
ASIS International — Invitation to Attend World’s Most Influential Security Events
ASIS International has led the security industry by providing up-to-the-minute education and strategic solutions to professionals around the world. Both physical and information security professionals have benefited from these offerings for nearly sixty (60) years. Our staff supports ASIS International and encourages our readers to be aware of the following schedule of upcoming seminars and exhibits: ASIS-PAC in Macau, China – December 3-5, 2013 ASIS MIDDLE EAST in Dubai, UAE – February 16-18, 2014 ASIS EUROPE in The Hague, Netherlands – April 1-3, 2014 ASIS NYC in New York, … [Read more...]
Security Industry — New ASIS Report Assesses the State of the U.S. Security Industry
By: Ben J. Carnevale, Managing Editor An increasingly challenging security (physical and IT) related threat environment for U.S. businesses remains a major topic for all security management team in companies throughout the country. And, without a successful ability to align senior management strategic thinking with those threats still too often leaves those team under-funded and without the critical support needed for achieving their objectives. To shed some light on this critical issue and perhaps give some needed information to help in security management team presentations to upper … [Read more...]
American Red Cross Mobile App Preparedness Tips
by: Ben J. Carnevale, Contributing Writer For those readers who reside in the path of Hurricane Sandy over the next few days, our staff offers a reminder of the many disaster preparedness mobile apps available from the American Red Cross. The American Red Cross has worked hard in transforming itself for the future – and just a small part of that great effort includes this series of disaster related mobile device applications available to everyone. Please check out the following disaster preparedness and disaster recovery mobile device applications: Hurricane App – this application … [Read more...]