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The Mobius Group 2023 Cyber Security Survey
THE PARTICIPANTS We surveyed respondents from a broad demographic of industries worldwide, the majority of whom hail from organisations within the regions we serve: Africa, Mauritius, the United Kingdom, Europe, Middle East and North America. The individual roles of the respondents include the following: THE INDUSTRIES The survey was completed by organizations from a broad…
The best solution to help you comply with the DORA regulation
The digital landscape has become integral to every aspect of our lives, from personal communication to business operations. However, with the benefits of technology come new challenges and risks, especially in the financial sector. Cyber security threats, IT failures, and other operational disruptions can have severe consequences, from reputational damage to financial loss. The European…
The Mobius Group 2022 Cyber Security Survey
THE PARTICIPANTS We surveyed respondents from over 200 businesses worldwide, the majority of whom hail from organisations within the regions we serve: Africa, Mauritius, the United Kingdom, Europe, and the Middle East. The individual roles of the respondents included the following: THE INDUSTRIES The survey was completed by organisations from a broad range of market…
Lee Bristow speaks at ISACA Ireland’s Annual Conference 2022
Lee Bristow tackles the topic of Automating Risk and Compliance t To close off a year full of engaging and enlightening speaking engagements, Phinity’s Director, Lee Bristow, presented at ISACA Ireland’s Annual Conference in November. The conference hosted an impressive line-up of IT experts and thought leaders to speak on the following theme: “Exploring new…
Lee Bristow presents an innovative new strategy at TechConnect Live
Lee Bristow presents at TechConnect Live and joins the panel discussion with other business experts. Can Ethics and Robotics Mix? That’s the question Lee Bristow, Director at Phinity Risk Solutions, posed to the entrepreneurs, business leaders, and fellow business experts at TechConnect Live on the 23rd of September in Dublin, Ireland. Lee Bristow unpacked the…
Phinity Risk Solutions honoured on Deloitte’s RegTech Universe 2022 list
Phinity Risk Solutions is recognised under the Risk Management Category on the RegTech Universe 2022 list. Deloitte’s Regulatory Technology (RegTech) Universe List recognises RegTech companies that are disrupting the regulatory industry with their innovative technological solutions to meet the compliance demands of the financial sector. Phinity Risk Solutions appears under the Risk Management Category. This…
Patrick Ryan and Lee Bristow at ISACA SA Chapter Annual Hybrid Conference 2022
Lee Bristow spoke on the topic “Can Ethics and Robotics Mix?” while Patrick Ryan joined other industry experts for a panel discussion. ISACA held their Annual Hybrid Conference on the 22nd and 23rd of August, 2022. This year’s thought-provoking theme was “Continuity, Agility, & Resilience in the New Normal.” Global risk specialist and our own…
Phinity Risk Solutions has been nominated for the Technology Innovator Awards 2022
Thank you to Innovation in Business for recognising Phinity’s innovative contribution to the industry. t The Technology Innovator Awards, hosted by Innovation in Business, aims to highlight and reward the most innovative businesses operating within the technology industry today. Without innovation and technological advancement, new products and services cannot be developed. Consequently, economies and businesses…
Phinity Risk Solutions is a finalist for the 2022 SaaS Awards
Phinity Risk Solutions is proud to announce that we are a finalist in the Best SaaS Product for Health & Safety or Risk Management category! t The Cloud Awards and SaaS Awards aim to celebrate excellence and innovation in the scope of cloud-based “solutions as a service”. The Cloud Awards program is one of the…
Lee Bristow presents at ITWeb’s 2019 Security Summit
Lee Bristow, Director at Phinity Risk Solutions, speaks on Integrated Risk Management at ITWeb’s annual Security Summit. Lee Bristow was one of the industry experts and thought-leaders invited to speak at ITWeb’s annual Security Summit in Johannesburg. The theme was strengthening your cyber security resilience in an increasingly digitised, connected world. Lee Bristow presented on…
Woolworths leverages the Phinity ERM Solution to create efficiencies and increase the visibility across the business.
Woolworths leverages the Phinity ERM Solution to calculate the risk of risk items based on the impact and likelihood votes of multiple stakeholders
Woolworths leverages the Phinity Application Compliance Solution to determine their controls
Woolworths leverages the Phinity Application Compliance Solution to determine the level of controls that are implemented and their effectiveness
Woolworths leverages the Phinity TPRM Solution to assess IT Vendors
Woolworth decided to implement TPRM to assess the IT vendors and identify if they have missing critical controls.
Phinity Risk Solutions at the Dublin Tech Summit
Phinity Risk Solutions hosted a booth at the Dublin Tech Summit between the 15th and 16th of June 2022. Our Director, Lee Bristow, chatted to attendees at the Dublin Tech Summit and answered questions about the value of automation to streamline business processes and how the Phinity Platform can simplify risk management for your organisation….
Lee Bristow at the 2022 National Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition
Lee Bristow presents on automating Procurement Compliance and the value of combining risk, automation, and ethics for digital transformation. At the National Manufacturing & Supply Chain Conference & Exhibition in May 2022, our Director, Lee Bristow, spoke on the value of automating Procurement Compliance and took a deep dive into the good, the bad, and…
Can Ethics and Robotics Mix?
Risk specialist Lee Bristow breaks down a new strategy to mitigate security threats from third parties. If you use third parties to support your business’s core operations, they need access to essential data, intellectual property and operational capabilities for successful service delivery. This means you have an ethical and legal responsibility to protect the customer…
Phinity Risk Solutions wins the 2021 Max Blecher Innovation award
Phinity Risk Solutions is proud to announce that it is the winner of the 2021 Max Blecher Innovation Award! t The 2021 Max Blecher Innovation Award is provided to an individual and/or organisation that has developed fresh new insights, developments, tools or techniques to promote the field of information security (IS) risk management, audit &…
Practical Tips and Best Practices to Mature Your TPRM
Learn how to Accelerate Your Third Party Risk Management Maturity Now more than ever, companies are turning to Third Parties for a strategic edge that will take their business to the next level. These Third Parties will bring benefits and potentially risks, and that is why sustainable Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) processes should be…
Growthpoint leverages the Phinity TPRM Solution to assess IT Vendors
Driven by the CIO, Growthpoint decided to implement TPRM as a new part of the companies Risk Management Strategy.
Santam leverages the Phinity TPRM Solution for Broker Compliance
Broker compliance requires each insurer to assess all brokers through an ongoing detailed assessment process. Santam needed to calculate the compliance risks, track treatments, and provide a level of assurance to the industry body.
How To Tie Together and Boost Your Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) Processes
by Patrick Ryan, Managing Director and Lee Bristow, Chief Technology Officer of Phinity Risk Solutions Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) is a pillar of operational resilience. Based on extensive experience it has become clear that most organisations are unaware of how many third parties are involved in their operations, nevermind the risks that these…
Automate and Accelerate Insurer Compliance with Integrated Technology
With Lee Bristow, Chief Technology Officer for Phinity Risk Solutions There are significant oversight obligations placed on insurers to have the necessary resources and ability to comply. Phinity Risk Solutions has provided support to a major player in the insurance industry, as they embark on the initiative to obtain compliance maturity and ongoing visibility of…
Know and Manage your Application Security Risk During COVID-19
With Amanda Hechter and Raymond du Plessis from Mobius Consulting as well and Lee Bristow from Phinity Risk Improve your Identity and Access Governance (IAG) & Assess your Application Security Risk With COVID-19 catching much of the world off-guard, there has been a scramble for organisations to make key applications, such as financial and HR…
Know and Manage your Supplier Security Risk During COVID-19
With Lee Bristow from Phinity Risk Solutions and Malcolm Parker, Senior Managing Consultant at Mobius Consulting. MANAGE YOUR SUPPLIER AND SECURITY RISK The novel Coronavirus has created a number of challenges for society and most organisations are not well prepared to cope with this pandemic and the impact that it has on their trade. The…
Introducing Lee Bristow: Chief Technology Officer at Phinity Risk Solutions
Lee Bristow comes from a computer engineering background, with several years of experience in technical systems administration, project management and business development. With all his expertise, experience and knowledge combined, Phinity Risk Solutions was the perfect touchpoint in his career. This has given him the scope to use his skillset to innovate and re-create the…
PHINITY RISK MANAGEMENT & MOBIUS CONSULTING ON COVID-19
The Covid-19 (Corona Virus) pandemic is highly topical at the moment and we at Phinity Risk Solutions and Mobius Consulting have taken a clear stance on this. REMOTE WORKING Phinity Risk Solutions and Mobius Consulting has implemented, with immediate effect, a remote-working policy in the South African, Mauritius and UK offices for the next two…
The Importance of Cybersecurity and Third Party Risk Management for Your Business
Ensuring that your business is not only up-to-date when it comes to its technology platforms, but also airtight from a security perspective is paramount in the modern era. Cyber security has burgeoned into a massive industry with layered intricacies, but there are basic practices to follow in order to maintain your security integrity and third…
Phinity presenting at the IITPSA
ACCELERATE YOUR BUSINESS: Delivering a compelling presentation at the Institute of Information Technology Professionals South Africa, Phinity Director Lee Bristow highlighted the importance of Identity & Access Governance (IAG) in mitigating and managing risk. While some systems can be cumbersome, utilising the Phinity cloud-based platform, and its variety of products available, can provide business owners…
Phinity and CyberIAM announce STRATEGIC technology partnership
Phinity and CyberIAM announce a strategic partnership to provide advanced workflow and automation capabilities for customers. The firms are collaborating to deliver unique workflow and automation solutions focused on efficiency, that will streamline operations for customers implementing large scale Identity and Access Governance (IAG) capabilities. The Phinity cloud-based solution provides valuable information to streamline and…
Third Party Risk Management Conference
Phinity Risk Solutions, in partnership with Mobius, will be speaking at the first Third Party Risk Management Conference in South Africa. Come and join us as we share our gained insights into managing third-party risks. We will provide our view on how best to approach this complex process and how to get the best results….
Who Cares About Third Party Risk Management?
Your board of directors, the group risk officer, and those responsible for information privacy governance. And anyone within a multinational organisation involved in manufacturing, retail, education and financial services. In your organisation, can you honestly answer yes to the following? Are all your third-party risks being considered in the organisation’s overall approach to enterprise risk…
Is risk ownership aligned to the board of directors?
Providing risk management with a dedicated home at board level allows for the clearer oversight and accountability of management and processes. In turn, this ensures sound governance practices and a focus on transforming risk management into a centre of excellence. The board of directors is where the risk “buck stops”. After all, this is the…
Application Attack Surface
When assessing application risk, many organisations focus on the obvious: the software that they already know. They then proceed to overlook the full inventory of applications and code when reviewing digital assets. These ‘known’ applications typically have a high brand value or financial value, carry compliance requirements, or have been linked to previous breaches. The…
What is DevSecOps?
What is DevSecOps? The term “DevSecOps” places information security into the original operating model of “DevOps”. DevOps itself refers to the collaborative operating team of software developers and IT operations staff. DevOps is common practice the world over. The trouble, though, is that it was built for agility, speed and reliability – not security. And…
Third Party Risk Management Software for the Financial Sector
Regulators the world over are now holding financial institutions responsible for the actions of their third parties — thanks largely to the 2008 financial crisis and several high-profile attacks that leveraged third parties’ information security weaknesses. As a result, the financial services sector now requires strong third party risk management. The governance, compliance and regulatory…
Third Party Risk Management Silver Lining is Industry Self-Regulation
In today’s business environment it’s impossible to find a company that doesn’t contract with a third-party vendor to provide services. However, the convenience, flexibility and opportunities of outsourcing to third parties comes with significant risks. The risks vary from industry to industry, the common threats being regulatory and the impact of a potential third-party vendor…
THIRD PARTY RISK MANAGEMENT A KEY GLOBAL PRIVACY COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENT
Background to current privacy challenges Organisations that collect and process personal information are faced with increasing Privacy compliance challenges, especially where their operations span multiple geographic regions. This, paired with a growing reliance on external service providers to support core business operations, creates complex Privacy compliance challenges. Some Privacy models are more comprehensive than others,…
ISACA Max Blecher Innovation Award Winner: Triplicity
ISACA Max Blecher Innovation Award Winner: Triplicity Patrick Ryan won the Innovation Award at the annual ISACA event on 29 September 2017, for Triplicity. Well done to the team — so proud! Congratulations to Patrick Ryan, the Managing Director of Mobius Services (Pty) Ltd & Phinity Risk Solutions, for winning the award. Under Patrick’s direction,…