Introduction

This the second of two articles on cyber security and long-term risk.  The first article introduced the issue and discussed the first of two issues that underly the long-term risk. This is the need to have a robust Enterprise Risk Management process. This article will discuss the second issue, competition for resources both human and money. It also provides some policy recommendations.

Risk is an event or activity that can go wrong and cause an impact to the project. Risks can have a negative or positive impact to the project. Risks that have a positive impact are called opportunities. If they a negative impact to the project, they are called risks. 

What will the future hold for jobs and the work place?  In the following paragraphs, we look back to after WWII ended to understand how work changed during that period of time and look forward to gain some insight into the future and the potential impact on jobs.

Introduction

In April 2018, I wrote a piece entitled “Whither ISO Certifications?”  In that piece, I discussed the latest certification numbers as reported by the International Organization for Standardization  (ISO). It was noted that overall certifications were down by 2% in 2017 compared to 2016.  In addition, certifications for ISO 9001:2015 were down by 4%. ISO has released the numbers for 2018.  This piece looks at these numbers and their implications for quality management.

This regular column in The Auditor is intended to shine a light on the people, standards, and events that mean the most to auditors and registered organizations.

In this segment, we chat with Greg Hutchins, the founder of the Certified Enterprise Risk Manager (CERM) Academy and author of the books, Value Added Auditing, RiskBased Auditing, Supply Chain Risk Management, and ISO31000:2018. He is offering a presentation titled, “The Future of (Quality) Auditing” during Exemplar Global’s forthcoming Future of Auditing Expo.