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Sarbanes-Oxley: After Ten Years Still Too Early to Pass Judgement?

By Dick Weisinger

To regulate, or not?  July 30th marks the ten years anniversary of Sarbanes-Oxley.  Given a ten year retrospective, one would think that there would be some sort of general agreement about whether the law has been successful or not.  But

Regulatory Compliance: Staff Stretched with Too Much to Do in Too Little Time

By Dick Weisinger

Increased responsibilities and increasing complexity in compliance-related regulations is stretching the efforts of compliance professionals.  There’s too much to do and too little time.  A recent report from Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance finds that compliance professionals must make time

Data Management: Companies Struggle to Manage Sensitive Data

By Dick Weisinger

As organizations amass ever more data, the need to classify, organize, search and analyze large data sets is becoming increasingly important.  One area that is proving especially difficult for organizations is the ability to identify sensitive data, data which needs

eDiscovery: Applying Analytics to Speed the Identification of Relevant Documents

By Dick Weisinger

eDiscovery is the process of recovering evidence in a legal case from electronically stored files, documents, and databases.  The process of eDiscovery starts with a request from an attorney to produce all documents related to specific keywords that were produced

Enterprise Risk Management: ERM Managers Learn to Think the Unthinkable

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) is a management framework used by organizations for making decisions which balance risk against opportunity.  Core elements of ERM include concepts like internal control, regulatory compliance, and strategic planning.   The goal of ERM is to