Tag: Cloud Compliance

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 backlash. Pressure from the SEC and state authorities has increased ...

As Audit teams start thinking about their 2018 plans, being able to identify new trends in emerging risk areas that threaten to disrupt enterprise performance over the next year is critical. This explains 12 risks, connected by four major risk themes, that organizations need to have on their radar and ...

With 2019 planning on the horizon, audit teams are beginning to consider external factors that threaten to disrupt the success of their organization’s key objectives. Gartner’s Malcolm Murray, Rafael Go and Leslee McKnight analyze 11 key risks, connected by four major risk themes, that can help audit teams more effectively ...

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 you want to purchase a company that’s been compromised? How ...

A Compliance Officer’s Role in Mitigating This Risk Mobile computing presents a unique set of challenges to compliance officers. Our devices are truly omnichannel and not just dedicated to one aspect of our lives.  No organization can be fully compliant with data protection regulations when its staff carry personal devices with ...

Establishing a sustainable preservation plan is key for compliance and risk management. Onna’s Ish Alaoui outlines five key factors to weigh when looking to preserve data from cloud-based applications. The number of cloud-based applications and productivity tools used in the workplace is growing by the day. From Slack and GSuite ...

In the advent of automated GRC tools, data-compliance professionals are shooting themselves in the feet by over-relying on old-fashioned spreadsheets. Joe Stanganelli and Alia Luria discuss a better way to manage GRC data. Terry Ray, a senior vice president at cybersecurity-software firm Imperva, is fond of saying that even when ...

Many corporate leaders are hesitant to move to the cloud because of security concerns. netlogx’s Clayton Calvert explains that while data breaches are continuing apace, cloud security is entirely possible and manageable. Cloud adoption has continued to grow in the last decade, and recent reports by the analyst firm Gartner ...

Data security is a boardroom issue, a geographical issue and a local issue. The cost of noncompliance can be crippling, both financially and reputationally.

Lesley Maea suggests compliance today could take a cue from Marie Kondo in her Netflix hit, "Tidying Up." To remain safe and secure, use an intranet as a single source of truth. Yes, you read that right: an intranet. Put everything in one place. Then, you can see what you ...

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 and directors participated in this year’s global study, with 45 ...

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 teams and compliance frameworks have stepped up their game to ...