Five senior compliance practitioners outline their strategies for protecting their firms from data breaches.
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Ask a CCO: How is your company reacting to cyber-risks introduced by COVID-19?
Five senior compliance practitioners tell Compliance Week how their organizations are reacting to new cyber-threats introduced by the pandemic.
Ask a CCO: What’s your role in creating/implementing cyber-security policies?
Five senior compliance practitioners share insights on their roles in implementing and overseeing cyber-security policies and procedures.
EDPS opinion puts targeted advertising in crosshairs
The EU’s chief data regulator says planned regulations to oversee the tech sector should be tightened further to ban targeted advertising based on tracking online activity—an opinion that could prompt Big Tech and adtech firms to lobby hard against the changes.
Firms enhanced cybersecurity in 2020 … but not enough
Companies forced to pivot to remote work in a global health crisis spent the bulk of 2020 grappling with heightened cyber-security risks. A year later, compliance practitioners say their companies’ cyber-security postures are better for it—even in the wake of the stunning SolarWinds hack.
A Next-Generation Approach to KYC: 3 Essentials for Safe, Seamless Digital Onboarding
Although crucial to the success and safety of customer onboarding, implementing and maintaining a successful KYC program can sometimes create an overwhelming administrative burden. Additionally, navigating manual verification methods is costly and prone to inaccuracy, creating greater risk of customer turnover and lost revenue.
The great privacy race? Apple, Facebook pitch data transparency
Apple and Facebook, two of the world’s most powerful companies, are jockeying over how transparent to be with their customers on whom they share users’ personal data with and what they do with it.
Pandemic pervades executives’ top 10 risks for 2021
The aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic dominates the top risks that will keep boards of directors and executive management teams on their toes in 2021, a new survey by Protiviti and NC State’s ERM Initiative finds.
SolarWinds hack turning into Pandora’s box of cyber-risk
The more we learn about the SolarWinds hack, the more troubled compliance officers should be by the scope and breadth of the risks their companies might have incurred.
Incoming IIA chief Anthony Pugliese to prioritize technology, D&I
Compliance Week caught up with Anthony Pugliese, the incoming president and chief executive officer of the Institute of Internal Auditors, to discuss his plans for the future of the IIA and the internal audit profession at large.


