The Rising Importance of Holistic Third-Party Risk Management
An Acuity Risk webinar in collaboration with IRM
Thursday September 30th | 2-3pm BST

Third-party/vendor risk management is essential to ensure that vendors do not become the weak link in your security chain. However, gaining visibility into supply chain risks is very difficult and organizations often rely on control self-assessment questionnaires in the belief that compliance with a standard or policy minimizes risk.

Furthermore, the threat of exposure from vendors/third parties has continued to grow, especially during the pandemic. This has been on the upswing for several years, but 27 percent of respondents to an early 2021 Deloitte survey said they had a "high-impact third-party risk incident".

Organizations should take a more objective, holistic and dynamic approach to third-party/vendor risk management. By monitoring what happens in practice, organizations can gain greater insights into vendor risk and in turn manage business exposure down to acceptable levels.

Join Acuity in partnership with the Institute of Risk Management to learn how, by maintaining a well-architected risk model you can easily create an always-on, holistic and accurate view of your supply chain and the vendors that represent the highest risk to your business.

Speaker Details:

Simon Marvell is a Founder and CEO of Acuity Risk Management. Acuity is Simon’s second venture in risk management and cyber security, having also co-founded Insight Consulting, the UK’s first specialist information security services firm which he led through 13 years of profitable growth before selling to Siemens plc in 2004. As well as providing leadership to consulting and technology businesses, Simon has advised clients across all major business sectors on integrated risk management and channels that experience into Acuity’s award-winning STREAM Integrated Risk Manager platform.

‘Doing more with less’: The Benefits of Quantitative Risk Assessments
An Acuity Risk webinar in collaboration with IRM
On-demand until 26th November 2021

Boards and CEOs recognise the increasing importance of cyber security and risk management overall, according to a PWC survey of 3,249 business and technology executives – however, 26 percent will see budget cuts and 13 percent won’t see any change, so their security investments will have to be made prudently. To be certain they are making the right decisions, CISOs are seeing a need to quantify cyber risks.

By putting financial measurements on risk, an objective calculation can be used to provide reporting that is widely understood and evaluated based on management’s tolerance for risk. Done properly, these insights will allow security and risk professionals to speak the language of business leaders, thus aiding decision-making and optimising security investments.

Join this Acuity Risk Management partner webinar with the Institute of Risk Management to learn how quantitative methods for risk assessments and cost/benefit analyses for cyber security investments can help your organisation determine how to gain the best ROI.

Speaker Details:

Simon Marvell is a Founder and CEO of Acuity Risk Management. Acuity is Simon’s second venture in risk management and cyber security, having also co-founded Insight Consulting, the UK’s first specialist information security services firm which he led through 13 years of profitable growth before selling to Siemens plc in 2004. As well as providing leadership to consulting and technology businesses, Simon has advised clients across all major business sectors on integrated risk management and channels that experience into Acuity’s award-winning STREAM Integrated Risk Manager platform.

Practical Data-Analytics for Project Risk & Contingency Management in Engineering & Construction Sector
A Palisade webinar in collaboration with IRM
On demand until September 9th 2021

The Engineering & Construction sector has definitely learned from its past recessions and the recent COVID-19 and is now well-positioned to drive changes that can help to address its long-standing biggest challenges, the productivity and on time and budget delivery.

In addition, as infrastructure projects get bigger and more complex with multi-facet interfaces, they are becoming inherently more risky. For the E&C sector, this trend means smarter approaches, connected technologies and an increase in associated investments are now critical to help firms realise new operational and project delivery efficiencies. New business models and collaborative type of contracts as well as an increase in M&A activities are further accelerating the shift towards data-driven risk management approaches.

By sharing key results of KPMG’s recent Future-Ready Index survey globally and in Australia – highlighting the scale of challenges ahead of the sector as well as the technologies with the highest adoption rates amongst the top 20% E&C firms, i.e. BIM (86%) and basic data analytics (83%) – in this presentation and through a couple of recent case studies, Pedram will illustrate how E&C companies can begin to embrace data solutions for better project risk management including integrated project controls, connected assurance from project to portfolio level, appropriate governance, predictive analytics and machine learning while establishing a foundation which is essential for their efficient and effective success in winning and delivering capital projects. While many are failing to fully adopt these and other vital capabilities, placing their future productivity, profitability and project delivery at risk, the key question is, “Are you, as a firm or as an individual, ready for the future?”.

Managing 3rd Party & Supply Chain Risk
-Nicola Crawford

Extending business activities beyond organisational boundaries to create value for the organisation is not new. However, the quantity and complexity of the relationships that now exist beyond organisational boundaries is increasing, as is regulatory and stakeholder scrutiny – this can create significant third party risks that occur within an organisation’s supply chain and, as the current global pandemic has shown us, dealing with these can create significant challenges.

Senior Masterclass: Risk Management
-John Crawley

An overview of our Senior Risk Masterclass training course: Address business dilemmas and help create a culture in your organisation that ensures that risk management is not just a checklist feature; it's an embedded component in your organisation's DNA. You will learn what the most important processes are to manage in your organisation and what processes can and should be used to help your organisation remain in "safe" mode.

Risk Management and the military
-Carolyn Williams, Director of Corporate Relations

Risk Management in the public sector qualifications webinar
-Carolyn Williams, Director of Corporate Relations

IRM Webinar - Latest thinking in supply chain risk management
-Carolyn Williams, Director of Corporate Relations

Not everyone could make it in person to our Risk Leaders conferences so we are offering our global membership and community a chance to hear from one of 2019's most popular speakers via a special, free to attend, IRM webinar, looking at the highly topical issue of supply chain risk management.

Operational and Cyber Resilience Part 2
-Karl Viertel

Join the final instalment of Alyne's two-part webinar series, which delves into the components that make up successful Operational and Cyber Resilience. This webinar will focus on the best practices for effective Cyber Resilience, Incident Management, Training and Awareness.

Operational and Cyber Resilience Part 1
-Stefan Sulistyo

Join the first of Alyne's two-part webinar series, which delves into the components that make up successful Operational and Cyber Resilience. Stefan Sulistyo, Alyne Co-Founder and CCO will be discussing the best practices for effective Business Continuity Management, Vendor Governance and Enterprise Risk Management.

Improving Decision Making and Expert Judgement
-Liz Taylor

This webinar introduces some important techniques for making decisions under stress, on time, without bias, and in group environments.

As an introduction to the one day seminar on Improving Decision Making and Expert Judgement on 4th April 2019, you will get a flavour of the course to help you understand the breadth and depth of the subject and techniques taught.

Quantitative Risk Management
-Prof Dr Johnathan Mun

The CQRM (Certified in Quantitative Risk Management) has become the fastest-growing professional qualification in quantitative risk management and quantitative methods applicable to all industries. It is an international certification awarded by the International Institute of Professional Education and Research (IIPER). This webinar will showcase how individuals can maximize and update their skills, knowledge, and experience in quantitative methods and risk management.

Fuelling the Debate: Panel Session by IRM Global Energy Experts
-Alex Larsen, CFIRM President Baldwin Global Risk Services

Supply Chain & Risk Management (SCRM): Disciplines Joined-at-the-Hip
-Gregory L. Schlegel, CPIM

Supply chains are becoming ever more complex, particularly with the increase in outsourcing and the advancement of multi-tiered global supply networks. More and more organisations are now faced with direct and continuously evolving operational and legislative risks as a result of global market disruption or malpractice in their supply chains.

Risk Reporting
-Dr Simon Ashby

Are you looking at implementing a new risk reporting framework or update one that you have already? In this webinar we will explore some of the options that are available. Learn how to get the most from tools such as risk registers, risk and control indicators and risk matrices. Consider the options available when designing reports and identify the limitations of common risk reporting practices.

People Risk
-Grant Kennedy & Dr Aarti Anhal

This webinar will focus on "risk intelligence", which refers to the way in which an individual's values, risk competences and behaviours come together to drive their perception of risk, approach to risk-based thinking and decision-making. 

How to protect your organisation in a digital world: Panel discussion and launch
-Carolyn Williams, Director of Corporate Relations

Optimising Risk Workshops
-Dr. Sarah Gordon

Mitigating the Risks and Impact of Changing Sanctions Regimes
-Mark Dunn, LexisNexis

This webinar give you a practical insight into sanctions, enforcement and steps to consider to help address business risks. Some of the topics covered include:
• What are sanctions? (types of sanctions, associated reg list screened)
• What are companies' legal obligations under sanctions?

Risk Management for Infrastructure
-Graham Nicol

This webinar covers how to communicate the need and associated benefits of risk management to employees, delivery partners and stakeholders, how best to identify and assess risk (qualitatively and quantitatively), when to apply appropriate quantitative techniques, whilst challenging schedule integrity standards to support a QSRA. All of which should inform proactive decision making that aligns to projects/organisations risk culture.

Risk and Resilience
-Grant Kennedy & Dr Aarti Anhal

Resilience is achieved through a combination of the organisations agility, decision making and effective management of risk, that will ultimately protect and increase value of the organisation for its stakeholders.

This unique webinar gives you the insights to understand why taking an integrated approach to resilience management allows you to add and protect value and absorb and adapt to change.

Corporate Risk and Crisis Management
-David Rubens

It seems clear that the basic frameworks and principles that have supported corporate risk and crisis management for the last twenty-five years are beginning to be outpaced by the scale and scope of the emergent risks that we are now facing.This webinar covers the main themes of corporate risk & crisis management and the development of organisational frameworks that can support effective risk and crisis management planning at the highest level.

Emerging risks - Q1 2018 update
-Ian Beale - Principal Executive Advisor, CEB, now Gartner

Join this webinar to review the latest emerging risks benchmarking survey results from CEB, now Gartner and learn how your peers identify and manage the big over-the-horizon risks to their organisations.

Developing Risk Appetite Statements
-Ian Beale

This webinar will provide an overview of how to define your organisation's level of 'risk appetite', helping you to determine the most relevant approach for drafting your organization's risk appetite statements, assess stakeholders’ preferred risk-taking posture and write impactful risk appetite statements.

Combined Assurance
-Ian Beale

Every organisation has invested recently in their assurance functions – budgets in compliance have grown by 10%, InfoSec by 17%, and ERM by 22% - but significant failures and incidents continue to occur. In addition, operational management regularly complain of assurance fatigue and ExCo's increasingly demand a holistic approach to risk management or a "single view of the truth".

Information Security and Cyber Risk
-Ian Beale and Richard Cross

The continued growth in size and frequency of costly data breaches has increased the pressure on senior leadership and Boards of Directors to take a rigorous approach to understanding and managing cyber security risk. With this in mind, ERM teams are being asked to weigh in the organization’s response to these risks. Join this webinar to learn from CEB how your peers manage and report on cyber security risks.

Root Cause Analysis Level 1 and 2
-Suzanne Crouch

Suzanne Crouch, Director of Training at Sologic will deliver a 40 minute webinar on Root Cause Analysis combining level 1 and level 2: Senior Investigator. Suzanne will speak about the cause-effect relationship of events and the impact they have on your job role and your organisation. RCA identifies ways to stop negative events reoccurring, while examining successful events to help you replicate their positive characteristics.

RCA Level 2; Senior Investigator: creates understanding of the critical elements needed to lead an effective investigation, produce credible results, and the steps required to protect the credibility and integrity of the investigation team, the problem owner, and any impacted parties.

Risk in the Boardroom
-Ian Beale, Carolyn Saint and Louis Cooper

CEB's Ian Beale presents a 60 minute webinar on 'Risk in the Boardroom' with guest speakers: Carolyn Saint, CAE, University of Virginia and Louis Cooper, IRM approved trainer and Chief Executive of the Non-Executive Directors' Association

Developing a Risk Management Programme for your Organisation
-Joachim Adenusi MSc FIRM ACII (Former IRM Director)

The focus of this programme is manifold and address the following issues: fostering the use of the tools of risk assessment and risk management in new fields of application such as policy making; providing a platform between the insurance community, the engineering and academic communities and policy makers to discuss risk issues; promoting the concept of the insurability of risks as the natural borderline between State legislation and the market economy; identifying new opportunities for insurers in the emerging sustainability concept in order to enlarge the field of insurable risks

The risk toolbox: registers, matrix and bow-ties
-Dr Sarah Gordon, Director at Satarla

Every profession has tools fundamental to its trade, each of which needs to be reviewed and sharpened regularly to ensure they remain effective. The risk register, matrix and bow-tie are three such tools within risk management. This one-hour webinar will provide tips on how to optimise each of these critical risk tools and tailor them to your organisation.

Embedding Risk Management (Advanced FoRM)
-John Crawley FCCA FIB MIfT CMC SIRM

You already understand the process of risk management. The next step is to equip yourself to fully integrate business risk and opportunities for innovation into your organisation's corporate governance model.

Stress Testing from a Non-Financial Perspective
-Dr Ahmed Barakat

Stress testing is a useful method for determining how a portfolio will fare during a period of financial crisis...

Understanding and Managing Risk Culture
-Dr Simon Ashby

IRM is leading the debate on risk culture. Drawing upon the wealth of practical experience and expert knowledge across the institute, we have developed guidance for organisations wanting a greater understanding of their own risk culture and practical tools that can be applied to drive change.

As seen in the business press every day, embedding risk management into an organisation to the extent that it reliably makes a difference is a difficult task. To achieve this, boards must keep how to manage risks high on their agenda, and to continue asking themselves, whether they have the right culture, people and processes.

Effective Key Risk Indicators
-Dr Ariane Chapelle

A set of Key Risk Indicators (KRIs) is a crucial tool for any organisation which wants to define risk and identify the potential impact of adverse events. Join our informative and insightful webinar to find out just what you need to start - and improve - your own organisation's KRI programme. It will last around 35 minutes, followed by a 10-minute Q&A session. Designed for mid- to senior-level practitioners.