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Black Hat 2016: Threat Intelligence Deja Vu

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - September 21, 2016

AlienVault polled 222 security professionals at Black Hat 2016 to learn how their security teams have changed over the last two years, how the security landscape has evolved over the past 12 months, and how they are incorporating threat intelligence into their malware defense strategies.

2016 State of Compliance Study from PwC

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - September 19, 2016

It’s critical to establish a culture of compliance and ethics -- along with a risk management programs that helps comply with regulatory requirements and ethical standards. This study asserts that companies can do both by focusing on three key areas.

5 Tips For Your GRC Risk Scoring System

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - August 30, 2016

Risk scoring is a fundamental way of normalizing risk to make sense of complex and disparate data. This report from Rsam offers 5 tips to do it better.

Compliance Training and Tools to Increase ROI

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - July 7, 2016

Training is one part of how companies manage their compliance with laws, regulations and, most importantly, their corporate reputation through compliance (the ultimate barometer of their value). This white paper from Tom Fox outlines ways in which companies can get the most out of training -- based on what they…

Do Boards of Directors Have a Use-By Date?

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - June 8, 2016

The value of board directors to a company’s value increases the longer they serve—at least for nine years, according to new research from QMA that examines the relationship between average board tenure and current and future market value and future stock returns. QMA, with $111 billion under management, is multi-asset class investment…

FINRA’s New Standards Reveal Greater Focus on Compliance

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - April 27, 2016

Post 2008, banks operate in an atmosphere of increased compliance and shifting regulation. Broker-dealers and big banks need to understand the risk they are undertaking by operating in this heavily regulated environment. FINRA’s 2016 Priority Letter has a heavy focus on data quality and governance; banks need to know how…

Principles for Improving Board Risk Reporting

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - March 17, 2016

Global consulting firm Protiviti has published thought leadership on necessary principles for improving risk oversight. A fundamental underpinning of effective Board risk oversight is timely, reliable and insightful risk reporting. This report discusses six principles for delivering the focused risk reporting the Board needs.

PwC Report on Share Repurchases and Dividends

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - March 16, 2016

With record sums of cash on the balance sheets of U.S. companies, there are questions about the best way to use this liquidity. Activists often pressure companies to increase share repurchases, increase dividends, restructure, spin-off a division or even sell the company. And activists are often successful in achieving their…

PwC Publishes 2015 Annual Corporate Directors Survey

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - November 12, 2015

Board member views on strategy and risk oversight have shifted to a longer-term orientation with emphasis on evaluating macro-trends as part of their strategic review, according to PwC’s recent Annual Corporate Directors Survey. However, Board members are being pressured to balance longer-term strategic planning and investment with the need to…

Implications of the New Revenue Recognition Standard

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - October 14, 2015

As companies begin to implement the new standard, it’s critical to understand the accompanying business and technology implications that follow. PwC’s latest report offers top-of-mind considerations to prepare for the process, data, system and control impacts and offers a five-step plan to ensure compliance with the new standard. Additional key…

Managing Risk in the Cloud: Management’s Role, a PwC Report

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - July 14, 2015

Cloud services are gaining traction with C-suite execs looking to drive business innovation and competitive advantage, however cloud adoption can create gaps between cloud usage and risk management. To address this issue from the top, PwC recently released its Managing risk in the cloud—management’s role report, outlining the appropriate measures…

PWC Report: A Guide to Cloud Audits

Posted by Corporate Compliance Insights - December 18, 2014

Today, Internal Audit is in a state of rapid transformation, thanks largely to cloud technologies. IT is rapidly modernizing our data centers from virtualization to software defined data centers so as to build out increasingly sophisticated private clouds.