How can a relatively new vendor enter a mature market that has a multitude of established players and, with no outside funding, differentiate itself from the competition to make a global impact? Read on to learn how SimpleRisk is doing just that.
Why SimpleRisk Doesn’t Require Professional Services
This blog details how our approach varies from that of our competitor’s and how we ensure customer success without including professional services in our pricing model.
What is GRC-as-a-Service?
SimpleRisk partners with various MSSP providers to give customers a one-stop "GRC-as-a-Service" offering. Learn more about how this works and whether the SimpleRisk GRCaaS platform may be a good fit for your organization.
The OWASP Risk Rating Methodology and SimpleRisk
Over the years, we've received a number of inquiries about the OWASP Risk Rating Methdology with some contention around how we have integrated it into SimpleRisk. Some have questioned how SimpleRisk reaches its final risk score while others have pointed to differences in the Skill Level values. Let's delve into this...
Normalizing Risk Scoring Across Different Methodologies
If the "textbook" definition of risk scoring is Risk = Likelihood x Impact, then a Severe (5) impact and an Almost Certain (5) likelihood should have a score of 25, right? The answer isn't quite so simple...
Simplifying the NIST Cybersecurity Framework with SimpleRisk
Learn how to use SimpleRisk's Import-Export and Risk Assessment Extras in order to efficiently use the NIST Cybersecurity Framework's controls to assess your organization's risks and perform a control gap analysis.
SimpleRisk Stands Against Hate
At the end of June 2020, a civil rights coalition, which includes the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the NAACP, launched the #StopHateforProfit campaign. This campaign calls upon major corporations to put a pause on Facebook advertisements, citing the company's...
Risk Management for Dummies
Today I had a really interesting conversation with a guy from Japan via LinkedIn. It started with him trying to sell me...
The Security of Open Source vs Closed Source Software
When I first released SimpleRisk as a free tool back in March of 2013, I decided to license it under the open source ...
SimpleRisk On-Premise or Hosted - Which Deployment Model is Right for You?
As the Information Security Program Owner at National Instruments, I spent years contemplating the answer to a ...
What features do you want to see added to SimpleRisk?
Back in 2013, when I first started working on SimpleRisk in my spare time on nights and weekends, I started using a ...
SimpleRisk Now Offering Complimentary Risk Management Program Consulting to Customers
As the Information Security Program Owner at National Instruments, a $1.4B global enterprise, I've spent the past ...
SimpleRisk Founder Josh Sokol Featured on Dialed In With Kyle Burt
Last week I was invited to participate in Kyle Burt's live podcast featuring leaders in tech and business called ...
There is Nothing Simple About FAIR
Currently, SimpleRisk supports six different risk scoring methods. We have Classic Risk, which is the likelihood ...
How to Perform Risk Assessments (with SimpleRisk)
This is just a short (1 minute) animated video explaining some of the capabilities around performing internal and ...
How to Manage the Evolving Risk of Bluekeep (with SimpleRisk)
Unless you've been hiding under a rock for the past three weeks, you're probably familiar with CVE-2019-0708, also ...
Assessing Vendor Security Risks (with SimpleRisk)
As a CISO for a large enterprise, many times my first engagement with members of our internal teams was when ...
Quickly Customize Your Risk Management Program (using SimpleRisk.com)
When I first released SimpleRisk as a free and open source risk management tool at the BSides Austin conference...
How to Use Standards to Assess Your Organization's Cybersecurity Maturity (by SimpleRisk)
On March 29, 2019, Alex Polimeni and I presented at the BSides Austin conference on some of the work we've ...
GRC is Dead, Long Live GRC!
Recently, a friend sent me a blog post by John A. Wheeler of Gartner entitled "What Ever Happened to GRC?". In ...
Should Vulnerabilities and Risks be Managed in the Same Place?
While the distinctions between vulnerabilities versus risks has been widely documented in various forums, we ...
Pricing Integrity and Why We Won't Play the Pricing Games
Before starting SimpleRisk, I sat in the CISO chair, on the other side of the negotiating table. I learned the tricks ...
