Compliance Archive
An interesting announcement this week: The Open Compliance and Ethics Group (OCEG), a nonprofit organization with a mission to help organizations align their governance, risk and compliance (GRC) management activities to drive business performance and promote integrity, announced today the …
I read a scary article in the UK’s Computing News last week – it reported that the EU Commission is launching a ‘five-year technology strategy to foster economic growth and job creation’ and goes on to say that, in order …
According to Compliance Week, 582 companies have – under Sarbanes Oxley’s section 404 – so far disclosed material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in internal controls in respect of last year. Wow! Considering the amount of time that all companies have …
It is clear, from market activity and recent surveys, that the two highest profile threats driving boards to pay real attention to information security today are punitive regulatory action for non-compliance and terrorist activity. If boards were to do effective …
35% of Global 2000 companies now have a Chief Compliance Officer – and not all of these companies are in the financial sector. The weight of compliance legislation (particularly Sarbanes Oxley, Corporate Governance codes around the world, Privacy regulations, etc) …
There is an argument that IT security departments are so hard at work dealing with yesterday’s threats that they’re deeply incapable of reacting effectively to the developing threats and vulnerabilities that are inevitable as businesses push the frontiers of digital …
