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Compliance And Technology

Below is some of the most recent Compliance Week coverage on issues related to the intersection of compliance, risk and technology. These articles typically explore information-technology issues as they pertain to reliable financial reporting, internal controls, records retention, ERM, privacy, security, and other global requirements or standards. The list below shows the most recent articles first.

  Title & Description Date Type of Article
1. What Companies Should Know About XBRL Tagging
The digital revolution in financial reporting is underway! Oh, um—you haven’t noticed yet?
 By Colleen Cunningham
02/23/10 Columns & Editorials
2. Case Study: ACS Conquers Identity Management
For Affiliated Computer Services, a Dallas-based IT and business-process outsourcing firm that does business in 100 countries, identity management had become not only a compliance concern by 2008—it was a business risk and productivity drain as well.
 By Todd Neff
02/09/10 Compliance Week Coverage
3. Updating PCI Compliance to Thwart Breaches
Breaches of consumers’ personal information are quickly becoming one of the biggest operational risks facing any business conducting electronic commerce. How big? The Federal Trade Commission estimates that breaches of “PCI” hit 9 million Americans and cost about $52 billion—annually.
 By James Bone
02/02/10 Columns & Editorials
4. Data Privacy Practices Explored
A consensus is emerging among regulators that companies’ efforts to protect the consumer data they collect need a serious overhaul to keep pace with today’s changing technology landscape.
 By Jaclyn Jaeger
01/20/10 Compliance Week Coverage
5. Monitoring Controls a Top Priority in 2010
As Corporate America settles into 2010, it may want to put stronger monitoring controls on its list of things to do this year.
 By Jaclyn Jaeger
01/20/10 Compliance Week Coverage
6. More Expansion Plans for XBRL Reporting
XBRL technology may expand its reach in financial reporting even more in 2010, thanks to several efforts in Congress and the states to use XBRL as a means to reduce complexity in financial statements.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
01/05/10 Compliance Week Coverage
7. Case Study: Managing Post-Trade Compliance
Principal Funds, a group of 112 mutual funds with $280 billion in assets, had a problem with post-trade compliance: It wanted some way to confirm that all its transactions stayed within investment trading rules, and to confirm that every day.
 By Todd Neff
12/22/09 Compliance Week Coverage
8. Finding GRC Software to Suit Your Needs
The popularity and proliferation of governance, risk, and compliance systems has grown over the years as regulatory requirements have become more complex. So it’s little wonder that IT, risk, and compliance professionals have sought ways to make their lives less complex.
 By James Bone
12/01/09 Columns & Editorials
9. Study: Companies Lack Mature GRC Systems
A solid majority of compliance departments in Corporate America still rely on standard Microsoft products to manage their governance, risk, and compliance chores, despite the notorious security weaknesses Microsoft can pose, according to an exclusive Compliance Week study.
 By Jaclyn Jaeger
12/01/09 Compliance Week Coverage
10. More Progress, Fewer Errors on XBRL Filings
The mandate for companies to tag their financial statements using XBRL technology hasn’t yet proven to be the compliance nightmare that many feared. It also hasn’t yet revolutionized investors’ ability to analyze and compare corporate data.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
11/24/09 Compliance Week Coverage
11. Report: Few Prepared for e-Discovery
Demands for electronically stored information are increasing, but most companies are still coping with those requests on a case-by-case basis, costing them time and money and putting them at risk for sanctions and fines.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
10/20/09 Compliance Week Coverage
12. The Results Are in on First XBRL Filings
Corporate America has finally begun filing financial statements tagged in XBRL technology—and the mandate once hailed by the Securities and Exchange Commission as a transformational event in financial reporting has passed with little fanfare.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
09/15/09 Compliance Week Coverage
13. Developing a Matrix for Cloud-Computing Compliance
If you spend any time eavesdropping on your CIO’s conversations these days, you’re likely to hear him or her talk about “virtualization.”
 By James Bone
08/04/09 Columns & Editorials
14. Cloud Computing Vs. Internal Controls
John Bace, a research analyst at the Gartner Group, had just finished a presentation for a corporate client. Discussion shifted to the company’s data storage, and the client’s CIO mentioned he planned on moving much of that data to “the cloud.”
 By Todd Neff
07/07/09 Compliance Week Coverage
15. Podcast: Cloud Computing
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly talks with Doug Cornelius, chief compliance officer of Beacon Capital Partners, about “cloud computing” and how such IT systems can affect compliance. (Time: 8.5 min.; file size: 7.7 Mb)
 		06/26/09 Compliance Week Coverage
16. A Comprehensive Approach to Compliance Risks
Frank Lopez’s recent Compliance Week guest column, “Tips for Mitigating Whistleblower Risk,” provided a good overview of whistleblower policy, as well as some excellent suggestions for improving the anonymous hotline reporting process overall. It also got me thinking about the importance of moving beyond the hotline, and beyond business-as-usual reporting on risk- and compliance-related incidents.
 By Ross Williams, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, Cognizant Technology Solutions Corp.
06/23/09 Compliance Week Coverage
17. Required Reading for the XBRL Mandate
Corporate compliance officers who don’t already know the Securities and Exchange Commission’s adopting release for its XBRL mandate—and know it well—ought to put it on their summer reading list.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
06/16/09 Compliance Week Coverage
18. XBRL: More Plans, Still Little Enthusiasm
The XBRL community is launching a new movement to expand corporations’ use of the data-tagging technology to mergers, reorganizations, and similar transactions—even though Corporate America still hasn’t even started complying with a previous mandate to use XBRL in financial statements.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
06/02/09 Compliance Week Coverage
19. Tweet, Tweet: A Guide to Virtual Governance
“Directorship is now following you on Twitter,” an innocuous e-mail announced to us last month. What? Could one of America’s board publications be taken with tweets?
 By Stephen Davis and Jon Lukomnik, Compliance Week Columnists
05/12/09 Columns & Editorials
20. Choosing From a Plethora of e-Discovery Vendors
Since the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure were overhauled in 2006 to address the complicated issues of electronic discovery in civil litigation, the number of e-discovery vendors has more than quadrupled. But not all vendors—while ready and willing—can fit every client’s unique needs.
 By Jaclyn Jaeger
04/21/09 Compliance Week Coverage
21. Using XBRL to Attack Systemic Risk
Already hard at work making Security and Exchange Commission filings interactive, XBRL technology now finds itself at the heart of plans to save the U.S. financial system from future calamity.
 By Todd Neff
04/07/09 Compliance Week Coverage
22. eDiscovery Rules for Document Preservation
Technology is often key to helping any business endure a government investigation or lawsuit—and can just as often be the company’s undoing if it navigates the perils of e-discovery poorly.
 By Jaclyn Jaeger
03/03/09 Compliance Week Coverage
23. Blogs: If Used Properly, an Investor-Friendly Tool
Investor relations may finally be entering the world of the blog, an Internet communications concept that began some 10 years ago. Blogs are a wonderful tool with great potential, so of course Corporate America has been late to adopt them. But finally, we’re seeing progress.
 By Louis M. Thompson, Jr., Compliance Week Columnist
02/18/09 Columns & Editorials
24. Making the Most of ERP Systems for IT Control
Enterprise resource planning software is designed to reach into all corners of an organization and integrate the data throughout the whole company. But when it comes to compliance, cracks remain.
 By Caron Carlson
02/10/09 Compliance Week Coverage
25. Final XBRL Rule Starts New Compliance Push
The Securities and Exchange Commission has finally delivered its mandate—all 206 pages of it—that corporations start filing financial statements using XBRL technology.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
02/10/09 Compliance Week Coverage
26. How to Weigh IT Investment Decisions
Corporate management has always been told to invest wisely in IT. The board has always been told to ensure management invests wisely in IT. It’s a truism everyone states all the time.
 By Dan Swanson, Compliance Week Columnist
02/03/09 Columns & Editorials
27. XBRL: Who Will Use This Stuff?
When Christopher Cox, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, heralded the arrival of XBRL technology last year as the greatest advance in financial reporting in 20 years, he declared: “Interactive data will enable new analysis tools to put key information at every investor’s fingertips within seconds, exactly as the investor wishes to see it.”
 By Todd Neff
01/27/09 Compliance Week Coverage
28. Security Control Threats in Tight IT Budgets
For all the improvements companies have made to their IT security and control systems in the last five years, one menace still looms large these days: that layoffs will wreck the compliance system you’ve carefully crafted.
 By Todd Neff
01/27/09 Compliance Week Coverage
29. SEC Mandates XBRL Filings by July 2009
The Securities and Exchange Commission has given corporations one final farewell gift before the end of the Bush Administration: six more months to comply with the new XBRL mandate.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
12/23/08 Compliance Week Coverage
30. Advanced IR Section Crucial to Corporate Websites
Last June, the director of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Corporation Finance, John White, addressed the annual conference of the National Investor Relations Institute. His message: “Communications is a big theme for the SEC. Companies, more and more, are using corporate Websites to provide information that we require. We at the Commission are on board with this, and we want to encourage it.”
 By Louis M. Thompson, Jr., Compliance Week Columnist
10/21/08 Columns & Editorials
31. New Ideas on Corporate Disclosure
A consensus is beginning to emerge that the Securities and Exchange Commission should scrap its 20-year-old system of electronically filed periodic reports—although nobody knows just what new system should be built to haul the SEC into the 21st century.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
10/14/08 Compliance Week Coverage
32. IT Security Benchmarks Help Battle Hackers
IT security may be a routine part of doing business, but it retains an unmistakable aura of a black art, where recovering hackers in white hats battle evil black-hats using various forms of digital sorcery.
 By Todd Neff
10/07/08 Compliance Week Coverage
33. Editorial: Experienced XBRL Filers Offer Tips, Recommendations, and Pitfalls to Avoid
Good judgment comes from experience. Unfortunately, as the writer and Emmy-nominated screenwriter Rita Mae Brown once noted, experience often comes from bad judgment.
 By Matt Kelly
10/01/08 Columns & Editorials
34. Perfecting Your IT Infrastructure, the Backbone of GRC
An integrated approach to governance, risk, and compliance will not work without an IT infrastructure to support it; after all, take the wiring out of your Maserati and see how much good its fine-tuned Italian engineering does.
 By Scott Mitchell, The Open Compliance And Ethics Group
09/30/08 Compliance Week Coverage
35. Online Shareholder Forums Slow to Catch On
Despite rule changes aimed at facilitating online communication between companies and their shareholders, it seems electronic shareholder forums are an idea whose time hasn’t come, just yet.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
09/23/08 Compliance Week Coverage
36. Spy vs. Spy: Battling Fraud in Social Networks
You did it! You finally joined the 21st century and created a Facebook page. Now, proudly displayed on your profile for the whole world to see are your date of birth, dating status, hometown, college affiliation, and complete employment history.
 By Jaclyn Jaeger
09/09/08 Compliance Week Coverage
37. Views on XBRL Adoption
Editor’s note: The Securities and Exchange Commission plans to publish a rule mandating XBRL technology for financial statements as soon as this fall. To hear how much of a challenge XBRL implementation can be, we caught up with four financial reporting executives at companies that have already been participating in the SEC’s voluntary pilot XBRL filing program. These are their stories. If you're interested in hearing first-hand the experiences of the speakers below, join Compliance Week at our XBRL Primer, Nov. 19 in New York City.
 By Compliance Week
08/26/08 Compliance Week Coverage
38. Advice on IT Governance After a Merger
Christian Phillips, chief security officer at payment processing company Regulus and an old hand at running corporate IT departments, knows all too well the challenges of blending IT departments after a merger.
 By Jabulani Leffall
08/26/08 Compliance Week Coverage
39. SEC to Shed EDGAR for New IDEA
As companies await a final Securities and Exchange Commission rule that will force them to use XBRL technology in their financial filings as soon as next year, the SEC has unveiled an XBRL push of its own: scrapping the EDGAR database in favor of a new system to handle “interactive data” filings.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
08/26/08 Compliance Week Coverage
40. XBRL Validation—Can It Be Trusted?
The Securities and Exchange Commission can mandate use of XBRL technology for financial reporting all it wants. Ultimately, however, the investing public must take one key action to make companies’ investments in XBRL worth all that time and money.
 By Todd Neff
08/12/08 Compliance Week Coverage
41. Cautious Support for Proposed XBRL Rule
Corporate America is generally voicing support for the Securities and Exchange Commission’s proposed rule to mandate that corporations file financial statements using XBRL technology, although a few gripes remain about the timetable for adoption and about the difficulty of handling footnotes.
 By Todd Neff
08/05/08 Compliance Week Coverage
42. New PCI Rules Arrive, Confusion Remains
Another flurry of IT security rules to protect consumers’ credit card data went into effect this month—not that they will be much help to bewildered and frustrated retailers across the country.
 By Jabulani Leffall
07/15/08 Compliance Week Coverage
43. Explaining IT Risks to Senior Management
Explaining IT risk to senior executives and board directors in a meaningful way has always been difficult for computer folks. Now two major independent efforts to bridge the language gap have begun, with a third to follow later this year.
 By Todd Neff
07/08/08 Compliance Week Coverage
44. Survey: Many Unprepared for XBRL
A new Compliance Week survey suggests that most of Corporate America is barely aware of XBRL, the financial reporting technology the Securities and Exchange Commission is poised to mandate later this fall.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
07/01/08 Compliance Week Coverage
45. XBRL Meets Modern Investor Relations
Three years ago, the Securities and Exchange Commission introduced a financial reporting “tagging” concept called eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL). Seventeen pioneers—including 3M Company, Altria Group, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Xerox—volunteered to file their financial statements using XBRL, to see what this new technology could do.
 By Louis M. Thompson, Jr., Compliance Week Columnist
06/17/08 Compliance Week Coverage
46. SEC Gets Worldwide Report Card on XBRL
As the Securities and Exchange Commission marches toward the mandatory adoption of XBRL technology, it is hearing encouraging words from its counterparts around the globe already using the eXtensible Business Reporting Language.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
06/17/08 Compliance Week Coverage
47. SEC Wants Quick Action on XBRL
The Securities and Exchange Commission has released the details of its proposal to mandate XBRL technology for financial filings and begun a full-court press to get a rule passed as quickly as it can.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
06/10/08 Compliance Week Coverage
48. Auditing a Company’s IT Strategies
Today’s IT solutions are complex, and they are getting more challenging to implement all the time. One of the great questions for management at any company these days is simply whether all the investment in those systems is worth it. Internal auditing can play a critical role there, measuring and inspecting how the IT investment process—specifically, how IT investment is managed—works.
 By Dan Swanson, Compliance Week Columnist
06/03/08 Columns & Editorials
49. The Early Questions on XBRL Adoption
The Securities and Exchange Commission has yet to release its formal proposal that companies start adopting XBRL technology for financial reports starting as soon as next year—so Corporate America is engaging in some good old rampant speculation until then.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
05/28/08 Compliance Week Coverage
50. Three Years to Get Moving on XBRL
Anyone closely following the Securities and Exchange Commission has long known that sooner or later, the agency would order companies to start filing financial reports using XBRL technology.
 By Melissa Klein Aguilar
05/20/08 Compliance Week Coverage

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