Alla Valente

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Get Visibility Into Healthcare’s Biggest Blind Spot: Concentration Risk

Alla Valente 7 days ago
It’s been a banner year for healthcare, and not in a good way. As a healthcare provider, if your patients had trouble filling a prescription, if you struggled to submit claims to generate much-needed revenue, or if you had to ask a patient to reschedule a non-essential medical procedure, your organization has been a victim of healthcare concentration risk.
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The PBM Paradox: Catalysts Of Concentration Risk In The Healthcare Ecosystem

Arielle Trzcinski September 20, 2024
A recent study by the American Medical Association (AMA) noted that just four firms dominate 70% of the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) industry, a textbook definition of an oligopoly. Learn more about what's driving this trend and what the impact could be.
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The State Of Third-Party Risk Management, 2024: Dire, Hopeful, But Mostly Noseblind

Alla Valente September 11, 2024
As a former hockey mom, I assure you that there is nothing quite as pungent as a travel-team hockey bag. Adolescent sweat, steamy equipment, and skates with remnants of ice all shoved into a giant bag with no ventilation makes for a breeding ground for fungus and bacteria. But ask any player, coach, or hockey […]
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Introducing The CLM Landscape 2024: From Use Case-Driven Solutions To Enterprise Contract Management Platforms

Alla Valente September 6, 2024
As global interconnectedness exponentially increases the number of commercial and business relationships between organizations, the speed of innovation is also reshaping how they operate. In other words, for an organization to execute on its generative AI (genAI) strategy (and for the record, the absence of a genAI strategy is a genAI strategy), they’ll need to […]
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The CrowdStrike Moment Calls For A Redefinition Of Business Resilience

Charles Betz July 26, 2024
Crises such as the one triggered by CrowdStrike's global outage shine a bright light on many aspects of business and technology. Our new report provides a thorough overview of recommended actions for tech leaders as they face the unfolding long-term repercussions.
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CrowdStrike Global Outage: Critical Next Steps For Tech And Security Leaders

Andras Cser July 19, 2024
Technology leaders woke up this morning to find that a software update by cybersecurity vendor CrowdStrike had gone badly wrong. Get updates on the steps that your organization should take now and in the long term as a result of the CrowdStrike outage.
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What We Can Learn From 2023’s Most Notable Breaches

Madelein van der Hout June 3, 2024
Cybersecurity breaches continued to rise in 2023. Learn the eight most common incident types and get four key takeaways from our new report.
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It’s Time To Wake Up To Healthcare’s Concentration Risk

Alla Valente May 30, 2024
The US healthcare industry is riddled with concentration risk. Now regulators are getting involved making the pain too great to ignore.
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“Interconnectedness Of Global Business Systems” Debuts On The List Of The Top Systemic Risks Of 2024

Alla Valente May 21, 2024
Systemic risk events may be outside your control but how you respond is up to you. Learn the top systemic risks of 2024 in this preview of a new report.
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The New Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer Role Balances AI Champion And Risk Manager

Alla Valente April 3, 2024
US federal agencies must now have a chief artificial intelligence officer responsible for operationalizing the safe use of AI. Learn more about this move and the implications in this blog post.
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GenAI: GRC Enters Accelerator Era, And Not A Minute Too Soon!

Alla Valente April 2, 2024
Generative AI offers an opportunity for risk management to reinvent itself from the department of “no” to the discipline of “go.” Find out how in this blog post.
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Are You Ready? The SEC’s Climate-Related Disclosures Have Dropped.

Amy DeMartine March 7, 2024
The long-awaited climate-related disclosures ruling from the SEC is finally here. Learn what business and tech leaders need to do to comply.
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Breaking Down The US Executive Order To Protect Americans’ Sensitive Personal Data

Stephanie Liu February 29, 2024
Learn the key takeaways and market impacts from the Biden administration’s executive order to protect Americans’ sensitive personal data.
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Prescription For Change: Cybersecurity Outage Highlights Critical Vulnerabilities In Healthcare

Jeff Pollard February 23, 2024
A recent cybersecurity incident at Change Healthcare cause the pharmacy claims processors to take its systems offline. Learn the implication of this event and five things firms can do to prepare.
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Sustainability Reporting Standards And Frameworks And Regulations, Oh My!

Alla Valente February 21, 2024
Finding the right sustainability reporting frameworks and standards can be a daunting task. Get some insights in this preview of our new report.
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A Patchwork Of US AI Regulations Is Here — It’s Time To Deal With It

Michele Goetz February 9, 2024
In our new report, Navigate The Patchwork Of US AI Regulations, we answer the top questions to navigating US AI regulatory chaos. Here’s what every organization should know as they continue to develop and deploy AI in safe and legal ways.
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The Deadly Effects Of High Concentration Risk

Madelein van der Hout November 10, 2023
Learn why breaches with a high impact on society, such as recent cyberattacks in Germany, bring more focus on concentration risk.
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What The SEC Missed, But The NYDFS’s Cybersecurity Rule Got Right, About Third-Party Risk

Alla Valente November 9, 2023
Learn four requirements from the new NYDFS Cybersecurity Rule you can start preparing for now.
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Biden’s Executive Order On AI Is Broad In Scope And Laser-Focused On Spurring Innovation Without Undue Risk

Alla Valente November 1, 2023
The new executive order calls for a “societywide effort” from government, the private sector, academia, and civil society to address eight AI priorities.
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Prognosen 2024: Risiko- und Sicherheitsexperten werden Schutzmechanismen anwenden, die über Regulierungsvorschriften hinausgehen

Alla Valente 31 Oktober 2023
2024 werden weitere Unternehmen neue GenAI-Initiativen einführen, wobei sie schnelle Innovation mit Governance und Verantwortlichkeit in Einklang bringen müssen. Erfahren Sie mehr über unsere Prognosen 2024 für Cybersicherheit, Risiko und Datenschutz.
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