IEC 60601 is no longer a standard of absolutes. The third edition allows, and in some instances requires, safety features and test requirements to be modified on the basis of risk management. By ...

The State of Trust Report by Vanta, which surveyed IT and business leaders in the U.S., U.K., and Australia in July 2025, ...

Risk management, in the words of Sarah Ference, CPA, doesn’t have to be overly complicated or time consuming. “It’s really a mindset,” said Ference, an author of the JofA‘s Professional Liability ...

Negligence and litigation basics were introduced in Part I of this two-part series (see “Falling Hurts; So Does Litigation,” JofA, June 2024). In litigation, the plaintiff must prove everything.

Richard Chambers is the CEO of Richard F. Chambers & Associates and also serves as Senior Internal Audit Advisor at AuditBoard. As we prepare to enter the third year of the pandemic, it’s time to ...

Instead of risk management, can we think of it as success management or effective management? Because that's what it is. “How did the world go so wrong interpreting what the term ‘risk management’ ...

Risk management helps us think ahead to identify and address potential threats and seize opportunities to ensure the smooth delivery of our programmes. By managing risks proactively, we prevent ...

Successful risk management is essential to the design and development of safe and effective medical devices. Unfortunately, it is too often viewed by manufacturers as an isolated activity that must be ...

Following the global financial crisis that began in 2007–08, policy- makers have multiplied their efforts and implemented reforms to strengthen the resilience of the financial sector. But – while ...

Whether businesses are grappling with rapidly changing market conditions, continued pandemic disruptions, geopolitical conflicts or shifting workplace arrangements, threat actors are looking to take ...