Risk Management News & Articles

PCI (Payment Card Industry) compliance standards protect personal information and ensure security when transactions are processed using a payment card. Thanks to ClearPoint Metrics new PCI compliance management solution, organizations can manage PCI compliance risk more effectively, and reduce the cost of auditing and reporting.

The new metrics-based PCI assessment application will be delivered as Software-as-a-Service (Saas) on the Amazon cloud.

Companies have been contemplating compliance and governance issues for decades. But it’s only recently that they’ve been tackling the challenge that social media brings to corporate governance, risk and compliance. This week we examine a few of the elements impacting the industry.

Last week we talked about 5 of 10 important issues facing risk and compliance managers in 2010. You can read part one here. This week we continue that discussion with the final 5 issues focusing on risk management investment, integration, reporting and more.

As risk and compliance managers look toward the new decade, they are hoping for several changes in the GRC landscape. Based on conversations with industry experts and customers, we've compiled 10 of the most important issues for compliance professionals. Here we give you a look at the first 5, with the second five in part two.

Last week, we pondered the fate of acronyms -- namely GRC. Continuing the conversation, we sat down with CA’s (news, site) Marc Camm, senior vice president and general manager of GRC Products, and Peter Stapleton, senior principal product manager for CA GRC Manager, to discuss their thoughts about what Governance, Risk and Compliance will look like in 2010 and beyond.

A new year for governance, risk management and compliance brings a little something for everyone. Healthcare industries get a new tool, acquisitions and collaboration bring continued success, and cloud computing impacts data storage in the UK.

This week in GRC: a new privacy manager to map your enterprise's risks, a conference for pique your interest in identity management and a survey that shows you're getting better at managing GRC. 

We all know that all companies risk losing or leaking information. But do we really know what to do about enterprise risk management? Best practices aren't always relevant to enterprise environments, nor do companies always have the proper benchmarks in place to implement them.

Taken together, GRC is an oft-used acronym that refers to the way in which organizations manage, store and share information. Taken individually, there are integral pieces of the process.

Since the release of the fourth version of their first multi-case, multi-party eDiscovery review platform with process analytics, CaseCentral (news, site) has been hard at work simplifying the way early case assessments are managed.

Today, they offer an Early Case Assessment (ECA) offering that is seamlessly integrated with the eDiscovery review platform, eliminating the need to export data to another tool for ECA analysis.

Think the government is watching you? You're probably right.

But for the rest of us, we can turn to Surveillance Self-Defense to educate us about the law and technology of communications surveillance, computer searches and seizures -- and more importantly, how to keep your private data out of other peoples' grimy little hands.

BearingPoint has joined forces with it’s long-standing partner Microsoft to create a compliance and risk management solution based on the SharePoint platform. And you said SharePoint didn’t do compliance…

Autonomy, an enterprise infrastructure software purveyor, has just announced its purchase of ZANTAZ, which specializes in content archiving and e-discovery solutions software.

The pairing is expected to “redefine” information risk management by combining e-discovery, analytics, real-time policy management and consolidated archiving into one system.