Governance, risk management and compliance (GRC) are a part of everyone’s job. Too often we shovel GRC into the bowels of the organization thinking it is the responsibility of the obscure and behind-the-scenes individuals in the back office of the organization. This misperception is a critical issue organizations must address. The most significant exposures to…

Uh Oh, It’s Magic, Gartner’s Got a Hold On You . . . Tossing and turning, anxiety is stirring me.  I am trapped in a labyrinth of quadrants with flying dots that do not make any sense coming at me from all directions.  One appears in front of me, I am startled.  I remark, “you…

Compliance and ethics is not the same today as it was a few years ago. The forces shaping compli­ance are likely to continue to influence the trajectory of compliance and ethics for years to come. In the past, compli­ance was distributed and disconnected. The relationship of ethics to compliance was inconsistent. Organizations may have had…

GRC 20/20 Research awarded ACL GRC and their client Traina & Associates its 2013 GRC Value award in the Audit Management category. ACL is an all-in-one cloud-based GRC process management solution. Since ACL GRC’s implementation at the Traina & Associates CPA firm two years ago, their average audit elapsed time went from about 60 days…

GRC 20/20 Research awarded AlertEnterprise, Inc. its 2013 GRC Value award in the Identity & Access GRC category. Enterprise Guardian™ from AlertEnterprise was deployed at a large utility corporation. The implementation provided the utility insight into its identity repository and multiple IT systems to identify risks and eliminate threats, while meeting NERC and NERC CIP…

GRC 20/20 Research awarded ClusterSeven ESM its 2013 GRC Value award in Information and Data Governance. With the help of the ClusterSeven Enterprise Spreadsheet Manager (ESM) solution, the global European banking and financial services company was able to meet regulatory demands to demonstrate control over its core financial operations. In the process, the bank projects…

GRC 20/20 Research awarded CMO COMPLIANCE its 2013 GRC Value award in the Environmental Health and Safety category. The CMO COMPLIANCE HSEQ solution was implemented for a contractor. and replaced numerous department and division solutions with a central solution, streamlining ISO certification, and saving them at least one month worth of additional FTE that would…

GRC 20/20 Research awarded Datacert Passport its 2013 GRC Value award in the Legal GRC category. Datacert’s Passport® technology platform provides an integrated legal and GRC ecosystem that allows organizations to respond to the cost of compliance and non-compliance. Datacert’s Passport application breaks down information and process silos between a variety of legal and GRC…

GRC 20/20 Research awarded Hiperos 3PM its 2013 GRC Value award in the Third-Party GRC category for their implementation at a regional bank holding company.  The client specifics are anonymous in this publication, but GRC 20/20 has verified the factual accuracy with the bank.  After the implementation of Hiperos 3PM solution at the bank, it…

GRC 20/20 Research awarded Hitec Laboratories Ltd and Markel International its 2013 GRC Value award in the Policy Management category for its PolicyHub® solution. Markel International’s implementation of PolicyHub impressed them with its enhanced ability to demonstrate compliance to regulators. Markel International can demonstrate a 100 percent compliance rate for relevant staff, and can take…

GRC 20/20 Research awarded LockPath its 2013 GRC Value award in the IT & Information Risk, Security, and Compliance category. A leading manufacturer of medical devices recently extended its use of LockPath's Keylight platform, including several applications. During the first year, the implementation has meant an 80 percent reduction in IT audit preparation time with…