Data Privacy

With corporate data breaches on the rise, many businesses are rethinking their security strategies and plans for risk management. This piece discusses how these repercussions are causing business leaders to implement more holistic approaches to security that include preventative measures...

Top Concerns Include Inability to Demonstrate Compliance and Revealing Poor Data Disposal Practices AUSTIN, Texas – Oct. 31, 2017 – The CGOC (Compliance, Governance and Oversight Council) today released the results of a survey and accompanying infographic that reveals most enterprises...

How IT Can Leverage AI to Prevent Major Cybersecurity Incidents The need for artificial intelligence (AI) in IT governance, risk and compliance (GRC) is growing quickly.  As companies expand their digital footprints, cybersecurity vulnerabilities worsen due to an increased amount...

What Compliance Professionals Need to Know About Employee Data The deadline for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is on the horizon, and a customer's information is not the only thing that should be on a compliance practitioner’s radar. After all,...

This report guages how prepared UK businesses are to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compared to earlier research examining US-based companies’ preparation. Key findings from the research demonstrate that data privacy is becoming more complex, companies are equally unprepared...

Responding to a Cyberattack Hardly a day passes without a data breach revelation in the news, and perhaps no industry is more vulnerable for future attacks than health care. In 2015, the health care industry experienced more breaches stemming from...

Google Ordered to Surrender Foreign Server Data Attorneys from Bracewell analyze a recent court decision ordering Google to comply with warrants issued and produce to the FBI data that was stored on servers abroad. The decision could have far-reaching implications and...

Is Your Organization Ready — Or at Risk? How would you rate your organization’s GDPR readiness? Hanzo CEO and Chairman Kevin Gibson offers five questions every compliance officer should be considering ahead of next May’s deadline for GDPR compliance. Specializing...

Key Considerations to Facilitate Smooth M&As As the list of cybersecurity breaches grows daily and headlines grow more shocking – think Home Depot, Target, Anthem, Yahoo!, WannaCry – the importance of cybersecurity in M&A due diligence has correspondingly increased. Do...

Lessons from Panama One Year On It’s been more than a year since the Panama Papers incident, the leak of more than 11 million documents pointing to a lack of corporate transparency around shell structures. As a result, the global...

Strategies to Ensure Compliance as Deadline Approaches Whether your company is already operating in the European Union or has expansion plans there in the future, the upcoming GDPR rules will have a profound impact on how all organizations handle, manage...

The Information Governance Process Maturity Model (IGPMM), developed by the Compliance, Governance and Oversight Council (CGOC) in 2012, has become a standard foundation for starting and revising enterprise information governance programs. The CGOC has now released a new version of...