Risk Management and Compliance (GRC)

Avoiding Risky Business with External Workforce Management

Posted: 07/13/2022 - 09:00
Author: Vish Baliga
Compliance issues pose a serious risk for companies that do not have visibility into their external workforce.

It’s Friday afternoon and you are finishing the last of the week’s Human Resources (HR) duties before heading off to a relaxing weekend with friends. Just as you cross that last item off your list you receive a call from your Chief Human Resource Officer. You answer, hoping that any ask might wait until next week. Unfortunately, what you hear on the other end of the line is an HR nightmare and you realize that Friday night cocktail will need to wait a little longer.

Cloud Compliance and 4 Ways to Improve It

Posted: 09/30/2021 - 09:00
Author: Damian Alderson
Cloud Compliance and 4 Ways to Improve It

Cloud compliance accounts for a company adhering to previously established cloud usage regulations and standards that are dictated by both federal laws and industry guidelines. Let’s say your business operates within the FinTech industry. This means that you must adhere to the Fintech Law (comprising 100+ laws and multiple regulators, tribunals, etc.) in terms of how you store and handle customer data. The same goes for the healthcare industry for storing and handling patient data, and so on.

Securing Remote Workforces, Payments and Customer Data in a Rapidly Evolving World

Posted: 06/12/2020 - 00:01
Author: Gary E. Barnett
Securing Remote Workforces for compliance

While the rapid shift to a remote workforce model in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic has driven many changes for businesses around the world, a few constants have grown in importance. To maintain operations as seamlessly as possible, organizations must secure their payment systems, technology access, and sensitive customer data no matter where it resides, and that is particularly true when it is being accessed or processed by employees from their homes.

Why “Paper Compliance” is Not Good Enough in a Post-COVID-19 World

Posted: 05/27/2020 - 21:11
Author: Mark Scullion
risk and compliance post-covid-19

An unlikely health and safety pandemic has thrown the world into a tailspin. Regulatory changes related to COVID-19 are already touching all facets of the industry. They are likely to continue to evolve at a brisk pace, making it difficult for some employers to keep up. Although it would have been impossible for any company to be fully prepared for such low probability, the companies that put health and safety at the forefront of their efforts have found themselves in a much better position to respond.

Fix Our Broken Medical Supply Chains

Posted: 05/27/2020 - 04:48
Author: Pinar Keskinocak
covid-19 medical supply chain

The entire world is watching aghast as our nation continues to struggle with its COVID-19 response, where our broken supply chain cannot supply medical workers with enough masks and face shields to keep them reasonably healthy. The pandemic has exposed inadequacies and vulnerabilities in supply chains that were supposed to provide the much-needed supplies in the healthcare system. But life-threatening shortages are reported daily. COVID-19 testing kits and nasal swabs, lab processing chemicals, hand sanitizer and ventilators are in desperately short supply.

6 Tips to Drive Sustainable Procurement

Posted: 04/22/2020 - 22:07
Author: Cindy Rittel
Sustainable business

In 2020, you can bet your bottom dollar that consumers won’t be spending theirs on your products if you aren’t striving to operate sustainably.

For years, naysayers have argued that the consumers who say they want sustainable products aren’t actually willing to part with the extra cash to acquire them, opting for fast-fashion and plastic packaging over higher price points. Recent research proves this is simply not the case.

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