Grc News & Articles

This week, Microsoft announced that it will be enhancing the security of Office with the acquisition of Prodiance, kCura upgrades its e-Discovery platform, Autonomy closes acquisition of Iron Mountain’s digital assets and gets DoD certification for Records Manager, while Aveska offers governance for unstructured content in SharePoint.

The big event in the GRC space this week was the release of Gartner’s first Magic Quadrant for e-Discovery. Otherwise, RSA and SOA have integrated to provide cloud security, OpenLogic offers new collaboration capabilities for compliance, Iron Mountain shows that enterprises are still struggling to find files, while companies worried about GRC can learn it from ARC Logics.

An article that caught my eye last week was a piece by Ron Ashkenas in the Huffington Post Business section: Every Manager is a Risk Manager. Now, Ron does not have a background as a practicing risk officer, so his knowledge and understanding of risk management is not perfect; but he makes an interesting point. Most of the time, the (as he puts it) “official risk management function usually only addresses the most critical [risks].” But managers are facing and managing risks in the ordinary course of their business, on a daily basis.

RSA, the security division of EMC (news, site) recently sponsored a new report by the Ponemon Institute: The Role of Governance, Risk Management & Compliance in Organizations. Did you know that one of the top barriers to achieving GRC-related goals is lack of cooperation/collaboration?

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This week, SAP brings business analytics to GRC, researchers in Germany say they have identified a security hole in Android, Autonomy has bought the digital assets of Iron Mountain, VMWare has been on the acquisition trail and Compliance 360 releases Universal Assessments.

There were a number of new releases in the GRC space this week including an announcement from Symantec that it is releasing its upgraded Enterprise Vault 10 later this year, a new release of MetricStream’s GRC platform, Bridgeway has also upgraded LawManager, while Recommind and LexisNexis have formed a partnership, as have BWise and PwC.

There have been a number of new releases recently in the GRC space, with SAS upgrading its GRC suite, QUMAS offering document and records compliance in SharePoint, GRC monitoring for social media from SocialLogix, while Symantec adds to its SaaS offering. New research for Bloomberg also shows that enterprises are moving to hosted email for compliance reasons.

This week, McAfee upgrades Facebook protection to block all kinds of nasty bugs from getting in, GFI offers SharePoint log management for site governance, Coverity releases its upgraded code governance offering, while Zylab offers e-Discovery software that includes audio content identification.

While there hasn’t been a lot in terms of new releases this week, the ongoing problems in Iron Mountain are again in the spotlight, while research from both the not-for-profit ISACA, as well as SaaS GRC vendor Compliance 360, shows that compliance will be the major concern for enterprises in the coming 12 months. GRC was also mentioned at last week’s Oracle Collaborate conference.

The second day of Oracle’s Collaborate conference was, again, a fruitful one, with clarification on the support timelines for JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Update 2 and World A9.2 Update 1 ERP systems, a new integration between PeopleSoft and Primavera P6 and a new survey from the Oracle Applications Users Group that assesses difficulties involved in application upgrades.

This week there is upgraded SharePoint governance from Axceler, Xerox looks at the value of technology in law firms, Clearwell offers an e-Discovery game on Facebook to match Farmville, Bridgeway upgrades its enterprise management suite and Epiq buys Encore.

The other day, I was working on an article about assessing risk management and looked to the COSO ERM Framework for quotes. Specifically, I looked at the Executive Summary for language concerning the need for decisions to be based on timely, current and reliable information about risks. I found some excellent observations.

It took SAP (news, site) nearly three years to update BusinessObjects 4.0, which it did earlier this month with the release of the business intelligence and enterprise information management solutions. This week, it continues the momentum with the release of its GRC software called GRC 10, which pulls together its previous GRC offerings into something that has the look and feel of a new platform.

It’s been a busy week in GRC. OpenText has released new application governance and archiving software, StoredIQ offers risk assessments of SharePoint environments, EMC and eMag partner to offer e-Discovery, and there’s research from Varonis on metadata and GFI on email archiving.