Paris, 6.1.2010. In today economy it increasingly important to stress the importance of a thorough tender evaluation very succinctly. It is a fact that it is a false economy to accept underpriced or under resourced bid. A solution to that is to leverage the importance of standards as a best practice of the firm bidding [...]

Zurich, 23. december 2009. Global IT governance organisation ISACA has just launched a best practice framework to provide a further link between enterprise risk and IT risk management. “Risk IT” builds on COBIT 4.1 and is aimed at helping companies identify and manage IT-related business risks. The focus of “Risk IT” is essentially on the [...]

Zurich, 8. december 2009. InformationWeek specialized IT Magazine reports the latest observations contained in the annual Cisco’s 2009 Annual Security Report. Bad passwords, inconsistent patching, excessive information sharing, and outdated antivirus software are key ingredients in what Cisco calls a security “nightmare formula.” Expect troubles ahead.

Zurich, 1. October 2009. The actual economic situation has further highlighted the importance of using not only risk management, but the need to have a sound guideline within the organisation for managing risks. MinimaRisk has embarked in a daunting task to categorize all the possible Risk Management standards. A first overview, entitled “Governance, Compliance and [...]

Geneva, 1. september 2009. Philippe Mialet has been appointed as per today, Chief Operation Officer for MinimaRisk activities outside Switzerland and devoted to the french speaking countries. Philippe joins MinimaRisk team, providing an highly fond expertise in operational risk management of activities in third-world countries. His know-how will be mostly useful in implementing and customizing [...]

Lausanne, 31.August 2009. One of the most important duties for modern audit and risk managers is to foster company-wide utilization of best practice business processes + internal controls. However in widespread organizations it remains difficult to find the appropriate internal control. MinimaRisk has integrated in its tool all the relavant and necessary internal controls of [...]

Zurich, 26. August 2009. The Australian/New Zealand Risk Management Standard provides a generic guide for managing enterprise risks. This Standard, probably the most referenced best practice and standard within Risk Management, may be applied to a very wide range of activities, decisions or operations of any public, private or community enterprise, group or individual. … [...]

The ISO/IEC 38500:2008 Corporate governance of information technology standard, provides a framework for effective governance of IT to assist those at the highest level of organizations to understand and fulfill their legal, regulatory, and ethical obligations in respect of their organizations’ use of IT. To wonder what is the real impact of this standard, compaired [...]

Geneva, 8. May 2009 - MinimaRisk together with its training partner Digicomp, is proud to announce the first M_o_R Management of Risks Foundation and Practitioner training, which will last 5 days and will be held in Lausanne, Switzerland on 24. August. Please consult the course description for further details.