Risk

Risk refers to threats an organization faces -- loss of earnings, loss of reputation, or harm of any kind.  These articles explore the challenges of preventing, identifying and mitigating risk. Risk can come in many forms, including financial issues, legal liabilities, strategic or leadership errors, or accidents and natural disasters. Today,  IT- and data-related risks are growing concerns. The following articles about risk look at the issue from many angles, especially from that of compliance officers and risk managers.

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E&C Practitioners’ Greatest Challenge: Role vs. Reputation

Compliance training expert Ronnie Feldman explores the fundamental misunderstanding of ethics and compliance’s role and function in the organization, which must be overcome to successfully mitigate risk. You are smart. You’ve got a welcoming smile. You have interesting anecdotes. You’re a snappy dresser with a quick wit. And to top it all off, your role in the organization is to provide...

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With Rising Regulatory Pressures, Risk Programs are Running Hard to Stay in Place

Santa Fe Group’s Gary Roboff and Protiviti’s Paul Kooney discuss today’s increasingly fraught risk environment. Among the findings from a recent study: There’s a growing need for robust third-party risk management and greater board engagement. Increasing risk and regulatory pressure pose severe challenges to vendor risk management programs and largely offset gains in program effectiveness and efficiency, according to the...

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Red Box Announces Partnership With Theta Lake To Reduce Compliance Risk

London (May 15, 2019) – Red Box, the leading platform for voice, today announces a partnership with Theta Lake, a leader in compliance artificial intelligence (AI) for video, voice, and unified digital communication. This partnership allows Red Box’s customers to take advantage of Theta Lake’s purpose-built AI and Deep Learning-powered software to automatically detect compliance risks in their recordings, and significantly...

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DOJ’s Risk Assessment Expectations in “Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs”

Kaplan & Walker’s Jeff Kaplan discusses the Department of Justice’s recent updates to its guidelines for evaluating the effectiveness of corporate compliance programs in the context of an investigation. Editor’s note. Later this month CCI will publish the second and expanded edition of Jeff Kaplan’s popular e-book Compliance & Ethics Risk Assessment: Concepts, Methods and New Directions.  Today’s post is...

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How CISOs Can Effectively Convey Information Security Risk to the Board

Effective leaders understand that boards are comprised of people with different skills and areas of expertise – often without the acumen to understand the details of security and risk the way a security or risk professional does. Lockpath’s Sam Abadir offers guidance on bridging that gap. Communicating risk posture and assessments to the highest levels of an organization is a...

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Ponemon on Third-Party IoT Risk: Companies Don’t Know What They Don’t Know

Third-Party Risk Factors Require More Board Level Attention on IoT Security Santa Fe, NM (May 7, 2019) – The Santa Fe Group, authorities in risk management and the managing agent of the Shared Assessments Program today released the results of the Third Annual Ponemon Institute’s study on Third-Party Risk for the Internet of Things (IoT). Ponemon reports a dramatic increase in IoT-related...

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How Compliance Can Empower the Business to Manage Risk

Compliance professionals still “own” too many risks that business units could manage more effectively. Gartner’s Brian Lee discusses one solution: moving ownership of compliance risks closer to their sources. It’s a time of enormous change for organizations of every type. Gartner’s 2018 survey of CEOs shows that CEOs, who have been focused on growth for years, are now prioritizing firm...

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Disruptive Innovation Tops List of Threats to Companies – Is Your Organization Thinking and Acting Digital?

The digital revolution is transforming our world. Protiviti’s Jim DeLoach shares how, over the next few years, many organizations will need to undertake radical change programs and – in some cases – completely reinvent themselves to remain relevant and competitive. Is disruptive innovation sufficiently emphasized on the board agenda and in the C-suite? Ask executives and directors what their company’s...

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Brexit, Uncertainty and Values at Risk: 5 Risk Management Lessons

Risk management pioneer and corporate governance expert Anette Mikes shares her thoughts on the U.K.’s separation from the European Union. Whatever scenario comes to pass, the risks are great. Anette outlines five lessons to be learned from the ongoing Brexit predicament. In their 2018 polemic, “Saving Britain,” senior Labour politician Andrew Adonis and the political scientist Will Hutton pondered Britain’s...

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3 Ways Integrated Risk Management Enhances Internal Audit

Riskonnect’s Dawn Ward compares the traditional GRC view versus the integrated risk management (IRM) view of risks as they relate to internal audit and information systems teams. As Gartner continues to shift its focus from governance, risk and compliance (GRC) toward a focus on integrated risk management (IRM), many corporate functions are recognizing the operational significance. The shift doesn’t negate...

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