by French Caldwell | October 31, 2012 | 2 Comments
I expect to hear a lot of stories about social technology keeping people connected in the aftermath of Sandy — just as after Katrina. However, I am also expecting these stories to take a twist — we will hear about how neighbors organized self-relief efforts using social media. Social media has been playing a part [...]
Category: public policy Risk Management Social Technology Tags: crisis management, disaster, Public Policy, social
by French Caldwell | October 26, 2012 | Comments Off
One of the questions I get all the time is, “Where can I find what regulations apply to me?” I talked this morning to Fred Diers who has created GRMpedia which tracks regulations and their retention and reporting requirements. Regs tracked include, marketing, finance, research and development, EHS, contracts, leases, IP, governance, HR and others. [...]
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Category: compliance GRC public policy Tags: compliance, Financial Regulations, Privacy, records retention
by French Caldwell | October 24, 2012 | Comments Off
I’m here at Orlando Symposium talking to a good colleague, Neil McDonald, and I ask Neil, “Why don’t IT service providers, who complain so much about the intrusiveness and costs of customer inquiries, inspections and audits of their security controls, just provide their customers an IT GRC dashboard? That way customers can see for themselves [...]
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Category: Cloud GRC Risk Management Tags: cloud, Risk Management, vendor risk management
by French Caldwell | October 12, 2012 | Comments Off
In the last week I’ve had two calls with companies deciding how to respond to the cybersecurity letter that Sen. Rockefeller sent to the CEOs of Fortune 500 companies. The deadline to respond is 19 October. CEOs are not required to respond, and with the demise of the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, it’s tempting not [...]
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Category: Cybersecurity public policy Risk Management Tags: cybersecurity, Public Policy, Risk Management
by French Caldwell | October 11, 2012 | Comments Off
Wow – just as we’re starting to grapple with the future of risk from social media and along come researchers with the biological internet. The Harvard DNA storage story broke a few months ago, and now researchers at the Stanford School of Medicine have gotten cells to communicate through DNA packets – with a range of [...]
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by French Caldwell | October 10, 2012 | 1 Comment
Dear Michael – Good to hear from you. Thanks for sending me your latest blog post. I have to say though that when you rant you really do go ballistic — you want to throw six months of my work on the compost pile — ooh, that hurts. But I get it, it’s not me; [...]
Category: Applications compliance GRC Risk Management Tags: compliance, GRC, Risk Management
by French Caldwell | October 9, 2012 | 5 Comments
Some vendors and their auditors appear to be misusing SSAE 16 the same as they did SAS 70. For example, today I saw an announcement from security vendor Prolexic with the headline, “Prolexic Completes SSAE 16 Examination for Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attack Mitigation Services.” SSAE 16 (aka SOC 1) like SAS 70 before [...]
Category: Cloud compliance GRC Standards Vendor Contracts Tags: cloud, compliance, vendor risk management
