IT Risk Management & Assessments
Conners & Associates answers that question before a regulator, an acquirer, or an incident does. Scott Smith is an interim IT risk executive with thirty years across accounting and IT. He finds the exposure, builds the system that manages it, and leaves you with something that holds.
Where It Breaks
Seven places the exposure tends to live. Most organizations are carrying at least three of them, and the binder doesn't mention any.
The requirements you answer to, mapped to what your organization actually does.
The gap between what the binder says and what happens on a Tuesday.
Your risk surface includes every vendor's risk surface. Most programs pretend otherwise.
National and global regulations that disagree with each other, and you in the middle.
What the acquirer's diligence team and the regulator will see before you do.
Knowing who is asking, what they ask for, and what they do with the answer.
The systems nobody wants to talk about are usually the ones that end up in the finding.
The Engagement
Scott works inside the organization the way an executive does: with ownership, a mandate, and an exit plan.
A clear-eyed read of where the exposure actually is. Not where the org chart says it should be.
The system behind risk management: ownership, process, evidence, cadence. The part that holds when he's gone.
You keep a working program, not a dependency on a consultant.
// the deliverable is the system, not the slide deck
Off the Clock
Scott speaks at accredited organizations, appears on industry podcasts, and is writing the playbook for IT risk in public.
Why You're Here
Most clients arrive here because two or three people they trust said the same thing.
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