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Cloud Computing Security: Businesses Aren’t Proactive in Securing their Cloud Resources

By Dick Weisinger

Almost three quarters of organizations say that they’re having a hard time trying to protect sensitive data stored in the cloud, and nearly half say that it’s very difficult to restrict end-user access to data in the cloud.  70 percent

Social Media Compliance: Navigating the Regulations of Business Communications

By Dick Weisinger

In March 2012,Gene Morphis, at the time CFO of the women’s clothing retailer Francesca’s, broadcast on his personal Twitter account the tweet: “Board meeting. Good numbers=Happy Board” to his 238 Twitter followers.  His gaffe was that the tweet was sent

Governance: Today’s Solutions Go Underutilized

By Dick Weisinger

GRC refers to an organization’s global approach to Governance, Risk Management and Compliance.  But GRC is much more than this relatively simple definition.  Paul Proctor, analyst at Gartner writes that, “when it comes to GRC technologies we have to define

Compliance: Challenges Increase but Budgets are Often Underfunded

By Dick Weisinger

Corporate ethics and compliance continue to be under close scrutiny across all businesses.  Compliance is particularly important to businesses that operate in many different geographies and need to comply with different local and regional regulations and rules. Keeping tabs on

Ethics and Compliance: Culture Trumps Compliance

By Dick Weisinger

A decade after business scandals like Enron and Worldcom, have businesses become any more ethical? Over the last decade many businesses have bulked up on the implementation of Ethics and Compliance (E&C) programs as a way to outwardly demonstrate that they