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Michael Volkov details the recent FCPA settlement against Barclays for improper hiring practices stretching back several years. One key factor that allowed the issue to continue for so long: a seeming lack of awareness of applicable anti-corruption laws. Barclays joined...

If an employee files a lawsuit against your company, there’s a strong likelihood the claim will be about workplace retaliation. Fisher Phillips’ Melody Rayl discusses how employers can guard against these allegations. According to EEOC statistics, the frequency with which...

Security professionals wake every day to more and increasingly savvy data perpetrators who’ve found new and uncharted means to acquiring data. Shared Assessments’ Tom Garrubba explains why anticipatory compliance is a key way to address this issue. As sure as...

Spreadsheets play a greater role in the risk and compliance process than one may think, according to a recent study conducted by Forrester Consulting. Diane Robinette, CEO at Incisive Software, details the findings from the report. The Forrester Opportunity Snapshot...

Who bears the responsibility for culture? Jay Rosen explores to what extent the Chief Compliance Officer should be involved in shaping a culture of ethics and driving ethical behavior. Let’s consider that there are multiple levels and roles for those...

The 2005 docudrama Syriana captured the moment just before FCPA enforcement reached the great heights we’ve come to expect today. Anne Eberhardt theorizes on the areas where authorities may focus next. The makers of the film Syriana posed several intriguing...

Many suspected – and rightly so – that the California Consumer Protection Act was too messy to go forward as originally proposed, but now the changes are locked in. Russ Berland discusses the most recent amendments. On January 1, 2020,...

What does the next major terrorist attack look like? 9/11 spurred an overhaul in security against physical harm, but many organizations are still woefully underprepared for terror’s latest iteration: cyberattacks. Kroll’s Alan Brill and Eric Thompson discuss how organizations can...

The SEC has squarely placed the onus on corporate board members to take on greater cybersecurity oversight of the companies they serve. NIC Inc.’s Jayne Friedland Holland discusses board members’ roles now. Following the heels of record-breaking cyber breaches in...

Mark Sangster, a cybersecurity expert from eSentire, considers recent data breaches and how the response to them is formulated largely by some key, innate human biases. Mark provides insights on how to reshape security and compliance policies to instead address...

The traditional decades-old labor model has been under pressure for some time, and it’s already being supplanted within a growing number of companies. Protiviti’s Jim Deloach discusses why directors should understand these developments and their impact on the competitive talent...

Keesal, Young & Logan’s Stacey Garrett does a deep dive into how organizations can be preparing for the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), going into effect on January 1, 2020. In June 2018, California broke new ground when it was...