RFI vs RFP
When should you issue an RFI vs RFP? So, your organization is looking for a solution or services to meet a set of business requirements, but where do you start? [...]
Risk of Incarceration: Cyber Security in the Boardroom
Why Boards must consider cyber security as part of corporate governance. For many years now, Information security, including Cyber Security, has been left to the IT Department. However, even if [...]
Top 5 Steps to Protect Personal Health Information (PHI)
Many organizations have access to, or store PHI (Personal Health Information). Not all of them are aware that they have legislated responsibilities to protect that personal information on behalf of [...]
Why The Difference Between Information Security and Information Privacy Matters
Information Security and Information Privacy are often confused with each other. It is important to understand the differences, and in some cases, the similarities. Information security vs. information privacy. Consider [...]
Five Steps to Protect Your Information Assets
Protection from the Information Security bad guys. You know there is some nasty stuff out there on the Internet. You also know that your employees use company computers and networks [...]
Four Basics of Responding to an IT RFI, RFQ, RFP
Boardroom Metrics provides Request for Proposal (RFP) response writing for Information Technology clients in the United States, Canada and Europe. Information Technology (IT) RFP responses must be written in a way that [...]
Snowden, Security & Privacy
In June of 2013, Edward Snowden leaked classified information from the National Security Agency (NSA). The leaked information revealed a number of surveillance programs that had been initiated by the [...]
MISA Security Conference A Big Success
Approximately 200 delegates attended the 2015 MISA (Municipal Information Systems Association) Annual Security Conference in beautiful Niagara-on-the-Lake last week. There was something for everyone – the techies had training sessions, [...]
Analyzing the Ashley Madison Data Breach
Analyzing a Data Breach: Ashley Madison - the Good, the Bad, and of course the Ugly Recently, the Ashley Madison network was compromised, allegedly by a group known as the [...]