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CEO Corner: How Acquiring Tracker Corp Affirms Our Mission
Mike Williams on the reasons behind Mitratech's latest acquisition.
Options and Opportunities: Economic Recovery and Model Risk
Why is model risk management more important than ever during the current economic uncer...
COVID Risk Events and DOJ Compliance Expectations
What are the Department of Justice's regulatory expectations during COVID-19?
Case Study: How ECM Agility Helped Overcome the Impacts of COVID-19
See how ECM automation features in DataStore have made a "huge" difference.
How Workflow Automation Accelerated Family Building Society Processes, ...
How is DataStore helping them build a paperless future in financial services?
How Workflow Automation Accelerated Family Building Society Processes, ...
What process did they target for change - and why was that process so labor-intensive?
How Workflow Automation Accelerated Family Building Society Processes, ...
How did DataStore help them cut execution times from days to hours?
Clear, Effective Communication is Vital For a Safe Return to the Office
Why is it so important? Natalie FitzHugh digs into the details.
How Workflow Automation Can Build Business Continuity After COVID-19
How can automating key processes help drive proactive resilience for an organization?
CEO Corner: Pushing Forward During the Pandemic – Mitratech Acquires CMPG
Mike Williams explains the reasons behind the move, and how it will build client capabi...
What Do Experts Foresee for the Future of Compliance?
See the many insights top risk and compliance leaders had to share at our latest Virtua...
Reduced Cost and Enhanced Impact: Embedding Compliance in BAU
How are "compliance as BAU" and the role of the CCO shaping the future of business?
Why Legal Departments Need a Legal Data Analytics Strategy
Legal data analytics can unlock cost reductions and efficiency, says Arran Braganza of ...
Overcoming Paper-Based Processes in Financial Services
What questions should companies be asking themselves about replacing outmoded processes?
Privacy, Pandemics, and Business Change…OH MY!!!
Michael Rasmussen explains the impacts of COVID-19 on data privacy protection.
Shadow IT Management: Choosing the Right Data Privacy Software, Part 4
The right software is vital to discovering your potential risk – and how to contain it.
A Perfect Storm: COVID 19, Financial Services & Model Risk
Unprecedented pandemic-based challenges are confronting finserv models and modelers.
Are You Ready For a CCPA Data Privacy Litigation “Gold Rush”?
If you're not ready, you may be in trouble...the expensive kind.
CCPA, GDPR, and 3 Steps to Sustaining BAU after COVID-19
Regulators haven't relented, so how can companies stay compliant?
3 Ways Compliance Teams Will Drive Business Continuity Transformation
How are GRC teams uniquely situated to help companies evolve toward smarter continuity ...
COVID & CECL: The Short-Term and Long-Term Impact
How will COVID-19 affect CECL compliance expectations now and in the future?
How Does ECM Enable More Efficient Work-From-Home During COVID-19?
How does a product like DataStore excel in managing the situation?
Phishing Preparedness: What Does a Risk Manager Recommend?
How do you spot a phishing attack, and what should you do about one?
Compliance Management: Choosing the Right Data Privacy Software, Part 3
Here's what makes up a best-in-class software solution.
What Policy Management Insights Can We Learn During COVID-19?
Michael Rasmussen and Henry Umney shared their insights.
6 Practical Principles for Policy & Procedure Management
What are the key tenets of a solid framework?
Why Critical Spreadsheets Are Actually Models (and Require Risk Governa...
Is automation the answer to model inventory management?
COVID-19: Changes to the UK’s SMCR Framework
What changes have been made to SMCR due to the outbreak?
Mitigate Privacy Risks and Exploit Valuable Data with ECM
How can a solid ECM solution allow finserv firms to manage their data deluge?
Three Steps to Mitigating the Business Risks of COVID-19
Graham Machray shows us how to mitigate potential impacts.
Reducing Work-From-Home Risk From Shadow IT During COVID-19
An inventory of EUC assets is a big first step.
Coping During Coronavirus: 13 Lessons About Managing Remote Workers
We provide hints from experience about the right steps to take.
A Risk Manager’s Real Guidelines for Work-From-Home Employees
What are the basic policies employees should follow if they're now working remotely?
The Importance of Visibility and Control Within Compliance Functions
Why are they so central to the success of risk and compliance efforts?
What Technology Tools are Companies Using to Manage Coronavirus?
Our survey of global companies reveals key insights.
Education and Proportionality are the New Watchwords for MRM
Insights from the UK Finance MRM Technical Briefing.
COVID-19 and its Impact on Financial Services – Some Emerging Themes
Graham Machray explains how the pandemic makes MRM more vital than ever.
FDIC’s Model Risk Management Guidelines Continue to Challenge Institutions
How can modeling and risk management teams comply? Here's how...
8 Key Steps For a Successful EUC Control Project
Jeremy Condie explains how to uncover and manage Shadow IT assets
Dodd-Frank Stress Testing – The Submission Deadline Looms
How EUC errors can affect Dodd-Frank compliance at this vital moment.
FDIC’s Model Risk Management Guidelines Continue to Challenge Institutions
How can modeling and risk management teams comply? Here's how...
On Coronavirus and ‘Business As Usual’ in Unusual Times
Mike Williams explains why technology providers need to step up at times like this.
Enterprise Content Management: Choosing the Right Data Privacy Software...
What should a prospective adopter look for in an ECM solution?
Policy Management: Choosing the Right Data Privacy Software, Part 1
What are the right features for a Policy Management solution?
4 New Legal Workflow Automation Use Cases You’ll Love
TAP use cases from Gap, EA, and more, shared by our TAP Co-Innovation Community.
5 Essential Elements of Corporate Compliance
What are the vital steps to take in assuring a culture of compliance within an enterprise?
Data Privacy Update: California AG Proposes CCPA Modifications
New interpretations clarify the CCPA landscape for businesses.
10 Privacy Predictions for 2020
Stacey Garrett explains the ten trends to watch in privacy regulation and compliance.
7 Habits of a Highly Effective Privacy Compliance Program
Michael Rasmussen explains the steps needed in launching a successful initiative.
In Data Privacy, How Smart Is Your Data?
Jon Dedman explains why "smart data" matters in data privacy compliance.
Announcing an End-to-End Evolution of GRC
Mike Williams tells why acquiring ClusterSeven is a big step in risk management.
Your Policy Management Solution Needs Ease of Ongoing Development
It needs to be able to be improved and evolved through continuous partnership.
7 Essential Compliance Management Activities
What are the fundamentals of an effective compliance management effort?
Making a Policy Management Solution Rollout Easier for You and Your Org...
How deployment can run more smoothly for employees and company alike.
Gaining a Holistic View of Risk and Compliance
With the right new product, being trained should be easy for everyone.
Did You Ring in the New Year with Confetti…and a New CCPA Privacy...
Stacey Garrett of KY&L details why it's so important to put one in place.
Holiday Obligations and Compliance Management
Corporate compliance management is a lot like managing a family gathering during the ho...
Learning a New Policy Management Solution Shouldn’t be a Headache
With the right new product, being trained should be easy for everyone.
A True TAP Use Case: Consumer Data Requests
Emily Bogin shows how workflow automation can tackle CCPA consumer data requests.
What Ease-of-Use Features Should Policy Management Software Deliver?
What are the questions to ask to ensure your Policy Management solution is easy to use?
For Policy Management, Give Employees the Tools for Success
Natalie FitzHugh explains why ease of engagement with employees is vital.
For the CCPA, New AG Regulations Are a “How-To” Manual
Data privacy expert Stacey Garrett of KY&L continues her series on the CCPA.
Your Next GRC Solution: Why Ease-of-Use is Essential
Learn why it's vital for your next GRC software solution.
Data Governance And Data Management: What’s The Difference?
They're not the same, but they're equally essential to modern corporate success.
Get a Glossary Guide to the CCPA
A handy infographic about the many terms surrounding the new data privacy law.
How Two New CCPA Amendments Impact Business Compliance Obligations
Data privacy expert Stacey Garrett of Keesal, Young & Logan explains the details.
Defining CCPA – How Can Companies Prepare?
Hear Steven O'Donnell explain the details on an EM360 webcast.
Is Document Management Relevant in a Paperless Organisation?
And if so, what should an enterprise be looking for from an ECM product?
What’s New & Improved In DataStore 4.0? You’ll Never Guess&#...
What new features have been added to our ECM solution for FinServ users?
Top 5 Uses for DataStore Around the World
What are the benefits they get from a best-in-class ECM solution?
Global Voices: Incident Management – Key Component of a Defensible Comp...
Why is Incident Management so important to a defensible compliance program?
The Importance of CCAR In Banking
Why is stress testing so vital to the health of the US banking system?
New Australian Whistleblowing Laws: What You Need to Do!
The new laws have already gone into effect. What steps must you take to ensure your org...
5 Reasons Not to Miss Our 2019 PolicyHub and DataStore EMEA User Group
Featuring peer-led sessions, training and best practice tips and tricks you won’t want ...
Global Voices: Compliance Lessons Global Organisations Can Learn From N...
Natalie FitzHugh details how companies can learn key lessons that help them avoid compl...
3 Hard Truths About Data Privacy – Are You Ready For Them?
There are other consequences of data privacy noncompliance, beyond fines.
5 Things You Never Knew About PolicyHub
What are the new or hidden features of PolicyHub that make it even more effective than ...
How Can a Legal Team Meet Data Privacy Challenges?
Legal teams must manage CCPA and other data privacy legislation; here are expert answers.
Global Voices: KYC Programmes – Aren’t They All Done and Du...
If you think Financial Services firms had put their Know Your Customer programmes to be...
Lowering Your Spreadsheet Risk With An EUC Audit
A step-by-step guide to completing an EUC audit.
Why Level Up With Paired Policy Management + Workflow Automation?
How coupling two technologies can allow companies to cope with escalating risk and expo...
Global Voices: Beating Bribery – Best Practice in Ethics and Cond...
Mark Delgado outlines how to address a challenge keeping compliance executives up at ni...
Use Case: Handling Employee Questions with Policy Management Automation
It's now possible to manage policy exceptions without any of the typical headaches and ...
Global Voices: GDPR Fines or Fiction?
Les Richardson explains why it's vital to have solutions in place regardless of regulat...
Have You Met These 3 Crucial CCPA Compliance Challenges?
Meeting the demands of CCPA compliance is more complex than some companies realize.
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility – How to Deal With the Grow...
Jon Dedman explains how to manage the oncoming changes being driven by regulators.
The Effect of Brexit on Legal, Risk and Compliance
What's the silver lining in Brexit? Mark Delgado explains the benefits for those who pr...
Global Voices EMEA: Communicating your Code of Conduct Policy
What are the best practices for communicating employee policies? Natalie FitzHugh expla...
Policy Management and Risk – A Critical Connection
GRC managers can't afford to ignore how vital strong policy management has become.
Policy & Procedure Management – Linchpin of a Defensible Com...
It's central to a corporate compliance program that can stand up to scrutiny. Learn why!
A 10-Point Checklist for Picking a Policy Management Software Vendor
What are the filters you should use to maximize value from both product AND vendor?
Why Is Policy and Procedure Management Now More Important Than Ever?
Policy and procedure management is increasingly essential; here's why, and the steps to...
Spreadsheet Risk: Three Steps to Avoid Disaster
What steps can you take to avoid the dangers involved?
Users Have Spoken, and They’re Demanding Agile GRC Software
Users want agile GRC software solutions, according to Michael Rasmussen. Here's our exp...
One Woman’s #MeToo Moment (and Why It Matters for Companies Everywhere)
Learn why risk and compliance managers should care that Mitratech's Kelly Phillips took...
Reputational Damage: 11 Steps for Protecting Your Brand & Company
What are the key strategies a business must follow to prevent damage to brand or compan...
What’s the State of the GRC Market in 2019?
What are the issues and drivers shaping the GRC marketplace, and the technology innovat...
Technology Risk & Operational Risk
A guest post from Shannon Harris at Cefpro.
9 Hot Q1 Headlines in Cybersecurity, Risk Management, and Data Governance
What are this quarter's biggest new stories in the ever-moving world of GRC?
Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX): A Simple Guide
What are the basics of this far-reaching financial regulation law?
CCAR & DFAST: A Simple Guide
Do you understand what they each entail? Our simple guide has you covered.
Fergus Allan on GRC in the UK & USA in 2019
Fergus Allan of TORI Global shares his forecast for GRC developments and how businesses...
In GRC, What Are 4 Barriers to a Culture of Compliance?
A new infographic lays out the four hurdles for GRC managers, and how to overcome them.
11 GRC Experts Predict What’s Ahead in 2019
What are the changes they see in store for businesses hoping to avoid compliance problems?
Webinar on Demand: Michael Rasmussen on SMR/CR Compliance
GRC pundit Michael Rasmussen joined Mitratech's experts to explain best practices for S...
How Our Policy Management Software Was “Perfect Timing” for...
See how PolicyHub helped unify a global firm's inconsistent policy and compliance efforts.
Webinar Preview: Senior Management Regime – The Next Level of Maturity
How can GRC managers learn how to guard against the actual, hidden SMR/CR compliance th...
The Google Walkouts – The Next Stage for #MeToo and GRC
How is the #MeToo movement driving demand for greater personal accountability from both...
Ethics Rising: 4 Takeaways From This Year’s SCCE CEI
Jason Cropper reflects on the conference the trends on view – and the one that was miss...
New DataStore Reporting Capabilities Provide Greater Visibility and Inf...
Mitratech has enhanced the reporting capabilities of DataStore, the only information go...
Making the GDPR a Compliance Lullaby: How Tedium Creates Nightmares
GDPR compliance can be tedious, as the fact the law is now literally putting people to ...
GRC vs. IRM – Is There a Difference?
Michael Rasmussen provided some thought-provoking commentary on the latest Gartner IRM ...
2 Practical Ways to Enforce “Tone from the Top” Compliance
Join experts from Morae Global and HMSHost as they share 2 practical ways your company ...
Data Privacy – The Hot Topic That’s Getting Hotter
The latest trend in governance, risk and compliance? It's all about Data Privacy. Read ...
4 Ways Top Companies Use Data to Drive Compliance (and Business)
Searching for ways to bring your compliance function up to speed? Here are 4 tips from ...
Work Smarter Not Bigger – The Motto of Modern Compliance Teams
When it comes to compliance, companies must do more with less. Find out how Western Uni...
What’s in the New 2018 UK Corporate Governance Code?
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has revised and released the 2018 UK Corporate Go...
4 Common Sense Online Security Rules All Employees Should Follow
Remind yourself about 4 common-sense rules from the real world that help you take owner...
Cybersecurity Precautions for Businesses
Find out what cybersecurity precautions your business should take to protect itself as ...
Why Security and Compliance are Everyone’s Problem in the Wake of GDPR
With GDPR in motion, we met with our in-house security and compliance experts to discus...
GDPR 30 Days Later, According to Experts
Since it launched 30 days ago, the news has been abuzz with GDPR. Leveraging decades of...
How a Sports Fan Saved His Company With Effective Compliance
When his new company faced near-destruction, this sports fan rebuilt an effective compl...
Be the Hero of Your Own Compliance Story
In this age of regulatory scandal, compliance officers are uniquely placed to become th...
NHS Spreadsheet Error Costs Junior Doctors Their Jobs
How one costly mishap illustrates the dangers of EUCs.
How Technology Helps Build an Effective Compliance Program
Regulators may disagree on some specifics, but nearly all regulators agree that this on...
TRIM and Spreadsheet Risk Management
How does TRIM impact a company's risk strategies and spreadsheet modeling?
ICO Fine Highlights Spreadsheet Risk for GDPR Compliance
Spreadsheet error leads to £120,000 fine for London council.
The Journey After May 25th’s GDPR Compliance
Experts argue that the GDPR compliance journey doesn’t reach the end of the road on May...
Empowering the Compliance Team to Drive Business Advantage in the Wake ...
While compliance breaches provide challenges, they also provide opportunities for compl...
Managing Spreadsheet Risk & Governance in SOX – An Optimal Approach
Addressing the new challenges of SOX reporting.
Effective Compliance Program Hallmark 7 – Remediation
Despite the best intentions, no compliance program's ever perfect. That's where the sev...
The New Spreadsheet Risk Management Issues of Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
SOX compliance creates real issues when it comes to monitoring your spreadsheet estate.
Effective Compliance Hallmark 6 – Enforcement and Internal Invest...
Our sixth hallmark of an effective compliance program promotes ethics within an organiz...
Effective Compliance Program Hallmark 5 – Monitoring and Effectiv...
As the name of our fifth hallmark suggests, monitoring and effectiveness are critical p...
Effective Compliance Program Hallmark 4 – Training and Communication
Today we continue our seven-week blog series on effective compliance programs with an a...
Effective Compliance Program Hallmark 3 – Ethical Due Care
As tough as it can be to implement, our third hallmark of an effective compliance progr...
Effective Compliance Program Hallmark 2 – Program Oversight
Read about the second hallmark of an effective compliance program - program oversight -...
7 Hallmarks of Effective Compliance Programs
Find out what an effective compliance program looks like, what regulators look for and ...
What Is End User Computing (EUC) Risk?
What EUC means, why EUC risk is so important, and how to manage it.
Spreadsheet Risk Management is Key to GRC Success in Organizations
Spreadsheets are integral to your operations. How can you manage their risks?
How Can CFOs Escape the Spreadsheet Spiral?
What is it? And how is it dragging down their enterprises?
Data Chaos Caused by Unmanaged Spreadsheets
Due to unstructured and uncontrolled usage, spreadsheets are spiraling out of control.
Cost Savings Achieved By Automating Financial & Compliance Processes
The risks of EUCs are obvious, and the automation savings can be big.
Leveraging Technology to Support EUC Policy
How technology can create a reliable and accurate inventory of EUC applications.
Top Tips: What are the Key Components of an EUC Policy?
The key steps and practices you need to consider when creating an EUC policy.
End User Computing Risk – Too Critical for Energy Companies to Ig...
A guest blog outlining the importance of EUC risk in the energy sector.
What is End User Computing Risk and Should You Care?
A guest post by Sam Lee explaining the importance of managing EUC risk.