All articles by Matt Kelly – Page 4
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Sony, Lesson 1: Communication Breakdown
Image: The lessons from Sony’s surrender to North Korean hackers last week are too many to count right now, so let’s start with an immediate one: understand the risks your company creates with its communication habits, and enforce smarter business practices to change them. Easy enough to say, Compliance Week ...
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Podcast: Segregation of Duties, Sensitive Access Controls
Segregation of duties controls—and their close cousin, sensitive access controls—are at the heart of a robust internal control system. They are also among the most difficult controls to understand, develop, and deploy. In this week's podcast we talk with Larry Carter, author of the new e-book Segregation of Duties and ...
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COSO 2.0: Same Same but Different
Image: After 18 months of forewarning, the new COSO framework for internal control went into effect last week—and despite all the promises that COSO 2.0 isn’t substantively different than the old framework companies have used for a decade to manage SOX compliance, in reality, Compliance Week Editor Matt Kelly writes, ...
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Rising Tides Around IT Audit
Image: At long last, IT audit is finding its place in the sun—so says the latest IT Audit Benchmarking Study, published last week by ISACA. By almost any measure, IT audit is getting a higher profile at large organizations. What does that mean for compliance officers, and how can they ...
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Compliance Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Image: Planning for the Compliance Week 2015 conference is well underway. We’re particularly excited for next year’s event because it will be our 10th anniversary, and hitting that 10-year milestone has put us in a reflective mood here. So as Compliance Week puts together the agenda, we’ve been asking ourselves: ...
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Take the Compliance Trends 2015 Survey
Image: Corporate compliance executives, we need your help: Please take our annual Compliance Trends survey, to give us the latest insights on corporate compliance programs today. The data you provide will be analyzed and then reported in the Compliance Trends 2015 report, the annual benchmarking study Compliance Week publishes with ...
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Digging Into the Data
Two truths about corporate compliance: no single solution exists for all businesses, and everyone wants to know what everyone else is doing. Compliance Week now has a way to address both those points—our new Data Research Division, where we listen to your company’s specific needs for data about audit, compliance, ...
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Early Agenda Announced for Compliance Week 2015
Image: Title: KellyGood news for compliance, audit, and risk executives looking to have a good time next year: We’ve announced the first few sessions on the agenda for the Compliance Week 2015 conference! Antitrust compliance, risk analytics, GRC technology implementation, training programs, the CCO's role in discipline—we will have all ...
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Talking Effectiveness: Upcoming Compliance Week Roundtable
Good news for compliance officers wondering whether their program really helps the company to achieve better outcomes: Our next Compliance Week executive roundtable, happening in Washington D.C. next month, will explore how you measure program effectiveness. If you’re a compliance officer who will be in the Washington area on Dec. ...
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More Lessons From Ebola Mistakes
Image: Title: KellyA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds—and also the sign of reckless policy management. Case in point: the quarantine imposed by New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie upon Kaci Hickox, the nurse returning from Ebola work in Africa who was not sick. From poor risk assessment to ...
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FCPA Takeaways in Layne Christensen
Image: Layne Christensen Co. joined the FCPA enforcement hall of shame this week; it was fined $5.1 million for various bribery infractions in Africa in the 2000s. Its aggressive investigation efforts won praise from regulators, but the root of the company’s problem—weak internal control over financial reporting—is still the far ...
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Getting In-Depth on Compliance
Image: In its full glory, corporate compliance is a complex subject. Compliance Week does its best to provide subscribers with timely, concise looks at news in this field to help you understand how you can build and manage a better compliance program, but let’s be honest—sometimes you need an even ...