10 Best Practices for Archiving

Although data privacy and identity theft have a higher profile in the minds of consumers, data retention issues can have a far greater financial impact on businesses. Every company, whether public or private, large or small, must have a policy and enforcement system to deal with the messages and files generated by the organization every day.

CCEP Handbook

This handbook provides information that you will need to register for the SCCE Certified Compliance & Ethics Professional (CCEP)Examination, including eligibility requirements, examination policies, an examination content outline, and an examination application.

Value of a Common Architecture for GRC Platforms

Jan 2010 - Business is complex and dynamic, and requires agility to stay competitive. Market leadership requires the organization is quick to respond to changing conditions - to pause means loss. Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) processes often work against business agility. Requirements and initiatives managed across numerous silos, using manual or varying technology approaches, burden the business. The lackof a common process and technology architecture comes at a significant management cost.

Setting the PACE of Change: The Enterprise PACE Programme

Large organisations manage numerous strategic change programmes and tactical initiatives in parallel. As a result it can prove difficult to maintain visibility of the combined impact of the proposed changes, the potential risks involved and where the effects will be felt.

Six Critical Elements to Achieve Economies in FISMA Compliance

A FISMA compliance approach that relies on a manual and labor-intensive process can produce mountains of paper and electronic documents that no one can organize and make sense of. Such a compliance strategy results in overwhelming confusion where the assumption is that everything is in place because personnel are too busy to make sense of it all: that is, until things break down and all the fingers are pointed at the agency. This whitepaper highlights the six critical elements agencies should keep in mind in order to reduce the burden of FISMA compliance, while achieving greater control and security.

How Long Should Email Be Saved?

As email has become more critical in the business world, many companies are weighing the question of how long it should be retained, what should be done with it, and when it should be deleted. The answer depends on many issues, particularly when one considers the varying regulations and business situations that might demand emails to be archived for long periods of time.

Benefits Realisation Management

Martin Boyd, Principal Consultant, Ergo

Abstract: Benefits realisation is becoming an increasingly used phrase and a hot topic within the world of Programme and Change Management. The reason behind this trend is simple: failure to deliver programmes and projects is now less common than the failure to realise any benefit from their implementation.

Distributed Intrusion Prevention System

Traditional IPS and firewalls fall short of providing effective threat containment and can expose the enterprise to unacceptable levels of risk. As the majority of threats now originate from inside the organization rather than outside, security needs to be everywhere, rather than just at select perimeter locations.

Achieving NERC Cyber Security Standards Compliance with Lumension

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation(NERC) is a non-profit corporation chartered to ensure that the bulk electric system in North America is reliable, adequate and secure.