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  • Advancing Your Organization’s Risk and Resilience Maturity

    Advancing Your Organization’s Risk and Resilience Maturity

    Getting to the Head of the Risk & Resiliency Class Organizations with risk and resilience processes siloed within departments operate at the Ad Hoc, Fragmented, or Defined stage. At these… Continue reading Advancing Your Organization’s Risk and Resilience Maturity

  • Five Stages of Risk and Resilience Maturity

    Five Stages of Risk and Resilience Maturity

    Mature risk and resilience management is a seamless part of risk governance and operations. It requires a top-down view of risk and resilience, led by the executives and the board,… Continue reading Five Stages of Risk and Resilience Maturity

  • The Human Firewall: Essential to Organizations

    The Human Firewall: Essential to Organizations

    Firewalls protect us. In buildings, it is a wall intended to shield and confine a fire to an area to protect the rest of the building. In a vehicle, it… Continue reading The Human Firewall: Essential to Organizations

  • Agile & Cognitive GRC: a New Generation in GRC Solutions

    Agile & Cognitive GRC: a New Generation in GRC Solutions

    I have been on the road regularly for the past six weeks with a heavy travel schedule through mid-July that brings me across the USA and Europe. Lots of interactions… Continue reading Agile & Cognitive GRC: a New Generation in GRC Solutions

  • Delivering 360° Third-Party Risk Situational Awareness

    Delivering 360° Third-Party Risk Situational Awareness

    A dynamic business environment requires the capability to actively manage risk intelligence and fluctuating risks impacting the organization and its relationships. The old paradigm of uncoordinated third-party risk management is… Continue reading Delivering 360° Third-Party Risk Situational Awareness

  • 360° Risk Intelligence in the Extended Enterprise

    360° Risk Intelligence in the Extended Enterprise

    The Modern Organization is an Interconnected Web of Relationships The structure and reality of business today has changed. Traditional brick-and-mortar business is a thing of the past: physical buildings and… Continue reading 360° Risk Intelligence in the Extended Enterprise

  • How to Operationalize ESG with GRC

    How to Operationalize ESG with GRC

    Take advantage of GRC’s structured guidance to deliver on ESG strategy and processes. ESG – Environmental, Social, and Governance – is pressuring organizations from every angle. Investors are making investment… Continue reading How to Operationalize ESG with GRC

  • Improving FedRAMP: Federal Procurement & Risk Management

    Improving FedRAMP: Federal Procurement & Risk Management

    The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP) has been in place for just over a decade (2011). Its purpose is to provide a “cost-effective, risk-based approach for the adoption… Continue reading Improving FedRAMP: Federal Procurement & Risk Management

  • Operationalize Compliance to Ensure 360° Visibility into Operational Resilience 

    Operationalize Compliance to Ensure 360° Visibility into Operational Resilience 

    Gone are the years of simplicity in business operations. Rapid growth and change in risks, regulations, globalization, distributed operations, competitive velocity, technology, and business data encumbers organizations of all sizes.… Continue reading Operationalize Compliance to Ensure 360° Visibility into Operational Resilience 

  • How do you add compliance controls in different parts of your business?

    How do you add compliance controls in different parts of your business?

    Organizations often fail to monitor and manage compliance controls effectively in an environment that demands agility. This results in the inevitable failure of compliance that provides case studies for future… Continue reading How do you add compliance controls in different parts of your business?

  • Strategies to Drive Compliance Operationalization

    Strategies to Drive Compliance Operationalization

    Organizations need to be organizations of integrity. What we communicate to the world about our policies, compliance and ethics practices, values, code of conduct, regulatory commitments, and now ESG statements… Continue reading Strategies to Drive Compliance Operationalization

  • IRM Risk Predictions 2022

    IRM Risk Predictions 2022

    IRM – Surprise! But it its not what you think. I have not changed my stance on Gartner’s misaligned Integrated Risk Management. This is the Institute of Risk Management, the… Continue reading IRM Risk Predictions 2022