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Governance and Risk

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May 7, 2012

Moving Past Rules Enforcement in Your Compliance Culture

The problem with focusing intensely on rules enforcement is that you tend to develop a culture where folks comply only out of fear, not because it’s in everyone’s best interest. As Saint Paul advises... More >

May 3, 2012

Know Your Options for ITSM Adoption

Adoption of IT Services Management (ITSM) frameworks, particularly the sector bell cow, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL), has probably never been as rapid or comprehensive as tech press coverage ... More >

May 1, 2012

A Governance Checklist for Your Jump to the Cloud

During the media buzz over the official launch of Google Drive last week, we noted that governance and risk management types tend to get anxious over any cloud service simply because they can’t en... More >

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April 27, 2012

Privacy Policy Is Not Main Risk Issue with Cloud Storage

Three days out from the grand opening of Google Drive, the search giant’s new cloud storage service, and the predictable media ruckus over privacy concerns has begun to die down, at least a bit. One ... More >

April 25, 2012

Google Drive Makes It Official: You MUST Plan for Risks of Cloud Storage

When Google gets behind a technology, it’s a safe bet that your staff members are going to be using it sometime soon, with or without your supervision or consent.   And so this week’s formal ann... More >

April 24, 2012

SRM: Learning to Put a Future Spin on Risk

Business leaders don’t like to be viewed as glass-half-full types. They want to be seen as can-do optimists who see possibilities everywhere and bravely lead their enterprises on to greater heights. ... More >

April 19, 2012

Make Sure Your Project Team Understands Risk First-Hand

The typical mindset of risk management is to completely isolate and prevent “risky” events from ever happening in the first place, or even being discussed much. But an interesting opinion piece at F... More >

April 18, 2012

The Human Factor in Compliance: You Just Can't Get Rid of It

Most security professionals will tell you that the single greatest risk to their networks is those darn human users who keep storing passwords on sticky notes and opening emails from unknown sources.... More >

April 17, 2012

Privacy Doctrines Questioned as Google Learns More and More

Any time Google and its voracious appetite for data make headlines, as it did this week when the FCC fined the search giant in relation to a probe into its Street View service, it’s bound to set of... More >

April 13, 2012

Feds' New Cybersecurity Push, from a Risk Managment POV

In information technology, it’s next to impossible to separate the disciplines of data/network security and risk management, at least on the planning level. Aside from massive power failures or just ... More >

April 12, 2012

Secondary Impact of Risk Mitigation Must Factor Into Planning

Risk management, at least at first glance, would appear to be the discipline of identifying potential threats, the likelihood of them occurring, and the negative impact such events can have on the bu... More >

April 10, 2012

Tight Integration Between Risk Management and Compliance Sounds Great, But …

The seemingly obvious idea that risk management and compliance should be tightly conjoined — perhaps even under a central Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) office — never quite goes away. It neve... More >

March 22, 2012

Yahoo Sues Facebook over Social Networking, Advertising Patents

Oh look ... It's more patent litigation. That's not surprising, given the litigious times in which we live. But for once the names in the case heading aren't Apple and Google or Samsung.   Thi... More >

March 6, 2012

Schumer Wants Google, Apple Under FTC Scrutiny for User Photo Access

After we were reminded last month that pictures taken with mobile phones and posted online may pose privacy risks, and now that Google's privacy policy changes have become effective, Sen. Charles... More >

March 1, 2012

Apple Faces Trademark Suit over iPad

Apple's legal wars expanded into China recently, when a company called Proview Electronics filed a trademark infringement suit against the iPad maker in California. Proview's parent company, Prov... More >

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