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Regulations concerning the protection of personally identifiable information (PII) are gaining steam, and the penalties for compliance violations are immense. Khushboo Suri of Adlib Software discusses what companies can do to identify the PII in their data stores and sufficiently...

Steve Durbin, Managing Director of the Information Security Forum (ISF), discusses some of the key risks to organizations today and provides guidance on how to steer clear of them while becoming more resilient. Until recently, leading executives at organizations around...

The latest global survey of C-level executives and directors of the macroeconomic, strategic and operational risks that organizations face indicates an increasingly risky year ahead. Protiviti’s Jim DeLoach discusses the risks keeping executives up at night. Overall, 825 C-level executives...

Fenergo’s Kevin O’Neill discusses how asset management firms and other financial institutions are being scrutinized more by regulatory bodies with respect to AML/KYC compliance and what can be done to rectify the problem. A recent report found that regulators over...

Regulating web use for employees via compliance handbook and URL filters for blacklisted (bad) and whitelisted (good) online resources has failed to improve compliance. Authenic8’s John Klassen discusses how firms can ensure compliance without sacrificing productivity or risking an internal...

What a difference a year makes — The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset Control (OFAC) announced two sanctions settlements in the beginning of 2019, a stark difference from 2018 when OFAC announced its first enforcement action in June 2018....

In the fast-moving world of cybersecurity, predicting the full threat landscape is near impossible. But it is possible to extrapolate major risks in the coming months based on trends and events of last year. FTI Consulting's Anthony J. Ferrante outlines...

Theta Lake’s Marc Gilman reviews some of the key points from a recent FINRA report that resonate for financial institutions and regtech providers. The end of 2018 found the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) busy issuing guidance on several fronts,...

Data retention is a persistent challenge for in-house counsel, but developing workable information governance policies and procedures needn’t be a taxing exercise. Buckley LLP’s Caitlin Kasmar highlights the importance of being equipped with the right advice at the right time...

VinciWorks’ Sandra Erez envisions corporate whistleblowing hotlines as an outgrowth of the infamous "red phone" from the era of the Cuban missile crisis and discusses how whistleblowing methods have evolved over the years. Read Part 1 here. It is October...

The compliance landscape is changing, necessitating changes from the compliance profession as well. A team of experts from CyberSaint discuss what compliance practitioners can expect in the year ahead. with co-authors Padraic O’Reilly, CyberSaint CPO and Co-Founder and Adam Bryan,...

2018 demonstrated that cyber threats are far from being tackled. Coalfire’s Adam Shnider discusses how in 2019, we can expect compliance and governmental bodies to set the bar even higher to protect data. While it may appear that enterprise security...