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The Naked CIO: Process not bureaucracy

Comment The common way of instituting process now is to use the C-word - compliance. But invoking compliance as a way of implementing a guiding process is a very slippery slope. Managers tend to recoil from any discussion about process because they equate...

Tags: project management, process

[12 May 2008]

Are rogue traders an inevitable evil?

Comment But a culture of weak compliance - or on occasion, determined collusion to beat the system - has rendered this legislation impotent. Experts say investment banking fraud can never be eradicated - even with the most sophisticated software.

Tags: fraud, societe generale, rogue trader

[15 Apr 2008]

Vendors hype up compliance fears

Comment Compliance. They're led to believe that compliance is a huge, appalling task and that there's lots of legislation out there that they won't be able to keep up with," says Matthew. A lot of Huggins' work today concerns Sarbanes-Oxley compliance.

Tags: sarbanes-oxley, data protection, compliance

[08 Apr 2008]

What governance can really mean to business

Comment Governance is a term you'll have heard bandied about a lot, usually with 'risk' and 'compliance' in tow. Forward-looking organisations tend to take a broader view of risk when conducting business planning, which helps focus on areas outside of...

Tags: risk, data management, compliance, governance

[28 Mar 2008]

Box-tickers risk serious data breaches

Comment You can adopt a compliance-based approach and tick every box in the Sarbanes Oxley rule book, or you can take a risk-based approach," he says. Life would be simple if curing security headaches were just a matter of buying some new technology.

Tags: risk, data leaks, security, compliance

[28 Mar 2008]

How to detect data leaks

Comment When a data leak is detected the DLP tool can block the leak or warn the user and also provide an audit trail for compliance. Faizel recounts the tale of one customer who needed a tool to secure credit card details for PCI compliance, but when it...

Tags: security, data protection, data leaks, comply

[19 Mar 2008]

ID tech tightens up compliance

Comment Most CIOs have a list of compliance regulations as long as their arm. This technology lets organisations demonstrate that effective controls have been placed on who can access valuable assets, enabling them to prove they are protecting their data...

Tags: identity management, data protection, compliance, printers

[18 Mar 2008]

Geography lessons for online retailers

Comment Geolocation can be used for delivering customised content, targeted ads, web analytics, digital rights management and regulatory compliance. Although the internet was once considered borderless, businesses are recognising that understanding the...

Tags: geolocation, sales, customer loyalty, online retail

[09 Jan 2008]

IT at your service

Comment Whether it's Capability Maturity Model Integration, or Itil in the service delivery part, or Cobit, which is more of a compliance and control standard," says Everson. One answer may to be move the computing department to a services culture, says...

Tags: service culture, service quality, management, itil

[09 Jan 2008]

What price compliance?

Comment An essential investment that companies must make in their compliance efforts is in tools for automating and improving auditing and reporting capabilities. But does compliance just add cost? A common complaint in recent years has been that...

Tags: compliance, management, sarbanes-oxley, regulation

[07 Jan 2008]

New Year's deliberations

Comment Good governance, appropriate risk management and the satisfaction of knowing that these two pillars can enable one's organisation to meet whatever compliance mandates it needs to - and that doesn't just mean industry regulations - make perfect...

Tags: predictions, strategy, management, balance

[03 Jan 2008]

Locking down financial security

Comment Customers are being used against them," says JR Reagan, managing director for global risk compliance and security at global IT consulting firm BearingPoint. But losses from online fraud continue to rise.

Tags: security, phishing, authentication, banking

[24 Dec 2007]

European payment issues will top 2008 agenda

Comment Complex and far-reaching compliance regulations around the world are putting payment operations under intense scrutiny. But Gareth Lodge argues that it is the changes in Europe that are having by far the greatest impact.

Tags: sepa, banking, payments, financial services

[20 Dec 2007]

E-tailers beware: OFT web sweep is imminent

Comment It will also be interesting to see whether the OFT also looks at compliance with other consumer-protection regulations at the same time - particularly limits on liability.silicon.com Retail & Leisure Guidance has been issued but there has been...

Tags: e-tail, regulation, oft, regulations

[14 Dec 2007]

Why must IT go green?

Comment Green IT is not about compliance or coercion. It is about efficiency, says Stewart Baines. And that should make it more sustainable than any kowtowing to corporate social responsibility. IT has been on an unsustainable path for years.

Tags: green, management, data centres, efficiency

[03 Dec 2007]

HMRC's missing discs: Just a warning shot

Comment Yes, there will always be a place for the carrot approach to compliance - comply with data protection laws and you will maintain trust, reputation and brand. Thus, the compliance function within the organisation, if it exists, is disconnected from...

Tags: data protection, security breach, hmrc, legislation

[27 Nov 2007]

Leader: UK should make hay while MiFID sun shines

Leader MiFID compliance - regulators in the spotlight ¦ The arrival of MiFID should be an opportunity for the UK banking industry to take advantage of the head start it has over much of Europe. The European investment banking regulation that came into...

Tags: uk, mifid, trading, london

[01 Nov 2007]

On-demand software can help banks avoid fines

Comment Falling costs for bandwidth and improved software delivery models have provided the general spur for growth of SaaS but there had been little evidence this type of service was adopted for compliance solutions.

Tags: money laundering, regulation, saas, hosted

[01 Nov 2007]

The Weekly Round-Up: 03.08.07

Round-Up It could be argued that IE has driven the phenomenal industry-wide uptake of the World Wide Web Consortium's standards by paying the scantest regard to them - thereby helping standards compliance with CSS and DOMs at the forefront of designers...

Tags: weekly round-up, round-up

[03 Aug 2007]

Security - no longer just about hackers

Comment It is only quite recently that such thinking has broadened across the wider majority of sectors, aided and abetted by the compliance wave. As opposed to just blocking outside threats, security today also includes risk reduction and enabling...

Tags: lan security, hackers, risk management, security

[31 Jul 2007]

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