March 14, 2011 – Santa Fe, NM – Today The Santa Fe Group announced details of the upcoming Shared Assessments Summit 2011 taking place March 28-30 in Boston, Massachusetts. With “Responsive Vendor Management in an Age of Risk” as its theme, the Shared Assessments Summit 2011 will bring together more than 150 risk management thought [...]

February 28, 2011 – An unexpected offshoot of Durbin restrictions on debit card fees may be improved mobile payments security. Read the full BAI Banking Strategies Article by Senior Consultant Gary Roboff.

January 31, 2011 – Implementation of the Durbin Amendment should spur greater urgency for upgrading the routing process for debit card transactions. BAI Banking Strategies Article by Senior Consultant Rodman K. Reef

January 11, 2011 – More effective risk management means bringing the strategic planning component back to operational risk management. Opinion article published in BAI Banking Strategies by Catherine A. Allen, Chairman and CEO, The Santa Fe Group

January 6, 2011 – “Banker” isn’t a bad word, but it sure doesn’t feel that way right now. These days, for the first time since the Great Depression, bankers rank lower than lawyers for respect and integrity in national surveys. Opinion article published in American Banker by Catherine A. Allen, Chairman and CEO, The Santa [...]

October 28, 2010 Santa Fe, NM – Today the Shared Assessments Program announced the launch of Version 6.0 of its Standardized Information Gathering (SIG) questionnaire. The new, leaner SIG offers a customizable scoring option, allowing a shorthand way for outsourcers to communicate service provider risk. Managed by The Santa Fe Group, the Shared Assessments Technical [...]

October 20, 2010 – Santa Fe, NM – The Shared Assessments Program has released a new white paper to help large organizations understand the opportunities and risks involved in deploying cloud computing in enterprise environments. According to a survey released this month by Novell, 77 percent of organizations with more than 2,500 employees use some [...]

May 18, 2010 – Providence, RI – Today The Santa Fe Group and the Shared Assessments Program opened Day One of the Shared Assessments Summit 2010, a gathering of nearly 200 risk management thought leaders, experts, and executives from diverse industries including healthcare, retailing, financial services and higher education.

Speakers from organizations including eBay, CIGNA, Wells Fargo & Company, and Carnegie Mellon University joined for the first day of the Summit to discuss the state of IT outsourcing risk management and what can be done to combat threats.

Summit Chair Catherine A. Allen, Chairman and CEO of The Santa Fe Group, began the day with several announcements, including the launch of a new partnership between the Shared Assessments Program and Network Frontiers’ Unified Compliance Framework (UCF), an industry-standard regulatory framework for compliance vendors.

March 17, 2010 – Santa Fe, NM – The Shared Assessments Program has released a new tool to help healthcare organizations and their partners compare the Shared Assessments standards to major federal regulations. The “HIPAA/HITECH Security and Breach Notification Rules: Crosswalk to the Shared Assessments SIG Version 5.0” allows users to quickly and easily see how a Shared Assessments evaluation can help them comply with federal healthcare requirements for data breach notification.

The HIPAA/HITECH Crosswalk is the latest addition to the Shared Assessments Program’s library of reference tools mapping the Shared Assessments standards to current regulations and international standards. It is the Program’s first document created specifically for healthcare organizations, following the Program’s 2009 expansion of its membership beyond financial services to include healthcare and other organizations that outsource sensitive data services.

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