Grc News & Articles

I recently met with a software company that specializes in monitoring social media. Their customers are interested in spotting "chatter" and discussions about their organization, its products and services, and the extended enterprise (e.g., vendors and channel partners). The company’s products identify and analyze all of this and report the results (generally on an exception basis) so that management can take action.

In the GRC space this week, the big news has to be that Google is offering cheap e-Discovery with its Google Apps. However, there are more nuggets in Lockpath’s survey of risk, while a number of GRC acquisitions this week are worth noting.

I added the phrase ‘their opinion’ to the end of the title, because while PwC always reports what respondents say, it is understandably difficult to do so with bias. PwC (PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP) has always had a perspective to share, and frankly I always look forward to hearing it -- whether I agree with it or not.

This week in the GRC space, new research from IDC shows security and regulatory concerns are holding back cloud adoption, at least in the utilities vertical; NextDocs upgrades its SharePoint compliance product; Avira tracks lost Androids and LockPath partners with Qualys.

Busy week with security and data insights taking pride of place. Symantec has two news offerings worth noting this week including the release of Data Insight 3.0 and the acquisition of Nukon, IBM offers analytics for fraud prevention, ControlPanelGRC upgrades and Vista Buys Equity.

This week, there are number of issues dear to the GRC heart. First, OpenText is offering a secure large file transfer application, Symantec has identified what happens to data on smartphones when the smartphones get lost, we take a look at SharePoint governance and content migration, while Canon secures information captured through printers.

“Hackers Elect Futurama’s Bender to the Washington DC School Board” -- posted by PCWorld on March 2, 2012.

“STOLEN NASA LAPTOP HAD SPACE STATION CONTROL CODE” -- posted by Discovery News on March 1, 2012.

With headlines like this popping up, it seems a good time to ask the question -- how does your company protect itself from direct hacking or hacking through stolen property?

This week in the GRC space, Symantec upgrades its offerings for mobile security, EMC announced that it is moving into the security space, Agiliance adds new connectors, SAS offers Big Data access using Hadoop and Centrix upgrades workspace.

This week it was always going to be about the RSA 2012 Conference that finishes on Friday coming. There’s a whole pile of releases, some of which we will look at this week, some next week. The most notable intervention so far has been from RSA’s Art Coviello, who says the security industry is going through hell. Meanwhile, Salesforce gets Symantec’s single sign-in, while RSA promises mobile security.

In my previous article, we discussed the five key drivers for adopting Social Business. With this follow up,  we will what companies have done who have been most successful in creating an optimal culture for Social Business deployments. By understanding the processes, skillsets and organizational structures associated with business value, we will see how companies have prepared themselves for collaborative success.

This week, Symantec offered us a preview of its soon-to-be-released upgraded compliance suite, Varonis offers a way of providing Big Data governance, Nuance gives healthcare document capture with HL7 CDA Standard compliance and Metaviz offers archiving for Office 365.

This week, OpenText releases a capture solution that provides easier retrieval of content in SharePoint, DocuWare provides better email compliance management and Guidance announces that it is buying CaseCentral, while SAI outlines GRC predictions for healthcare.

Seems like GRC companies are still only recovering from LegalTech NY this week, as it’s been relatively quiet. That said, SAI has finalized the Compliance 360 deal, Ricoh is expanding its e-Discovery reach again, Congress is taking on spyware and Guidance has bought CaseCentral.

Yesterday was the last day of LegalTech New York 2012, and though vendors and legal professionals alike have left, many of the product launches, announcements, case studies and panel discussions will stay with them for some time.

The week in the run-up to LegalTech tends to be quiet, with many companies holding their fire for the main event. This week, though, Equivio offered predictive coding to e-Discovery, Lookout offers insight into Android threats, SIA buys Compliance 360, BIA offers taste of social media collection features and TechNavio’s security industry report is now available.