by Impact Makers | Oct 18, 2019 | Risk
Part 3 of 3: How to Review SOC Reports for More Business Value By Zachary Ugol, Risk Management Consultant We have been discussing System and Organization Controls (SOC) reports and how they can be a used to establish and maintain trust between service providers and...
by Impact Makers | Oct 18, 2019 | Risk
Part 2 of 3: Understanding SOC Reports to Build Trust and Reduce Risk By Zachary Ugol, Risk Management Consultant As noted in our earlier blog, System and Organization Controls (SOC) can be helpful tool in establishing and maintaining trust between service providers...
by Impact Makers | Oct 18, 2019 | Risk
Part 1 of 3: How Service Providers Can Build Trust with Their Customers By Zachary Ugol, Risk Management Consultant Who is responsible for Information Security Controls? The rise in cloud-based technology and third-party solutions increases both the complexity...
by Impact Makers | Sep 4, 2019 | Advisory / Strategy, Strategy
7 Ways to be an Enterprise Agile Rock Star What does it mean to ‘rock’ at Agile Project Management? Aligning with the three areas of the Talent Triangle takes agile beyond the mediocrity of ‘just doing agile’ and to the next level, the Rock Star enterprise level....
by Impact Makers | Sep 4, 2019 | Company
Impact Makers recognized as a “Best For The World” top B Corp for exemplary societal and community impact for the 7th year Impact Makers, a founding Certified B Corporation, has been named a Best For The World honoree in recognition of the company’s positive impact on...
by Impact Makers | Aug 20, 2019 | Advisory / Strategy, Data & Analytics
By Kevin Cox, AWS SAA, CCSK Lead Consultant, Impact Makers Existing Monitoring Systems There are hundreds of monitoring products in the marketplace that cover monitoring from enterprise scale to small and medium businesses. How can a monitoring system help your team?...
by Impact Makers | Jun 27, 2019 | Data & Analytics
By Kevin Cox, AWS SAA, CCSK Lead Consultant, Impact Makers The typical process of patching on-premise systems Most IT environments have a requirement to keep systems up to date on vendor patches. Typically, in on-premise environments there are dedicated systems that...
by Impact Makers | May 15, 2019 | Advisory / Strategy, Data & Analytics
By Kevin Cox, AWS SAA, CCSK Lead Consultant, Impact Makers What is technical debt? The term “technical debt” originated from Ward Cunningham, one of the authors of the Agile Manifesto. He once said that some problems with code are like financial debt. Technical debt...
by Impact Makers | May 8, 2019 | Company
We at Impact Makers are reflecting on the memories of our long-time colleague and friend Katy Dynes. We are grateful to have spent time with Katy, who was a driving force behind our mission and culture since 2011. The impact that Katy made in her lifetime was...
by Impact Makers | May 1, 2019 | Data & Analytics, Risk
By Suresh Gowda, ICP-ACC, CSM, CSPO, SPC4, AWS-CSA-Associate Senior Consultant, Impact Makers How to quickly recover from services outages Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), microservices, and cloud best practices can result in the creation of loosely coupled...