by French Caldwell | May 1, 2013 | 1 Comment
I just returned from the MetricStream GRC Summit in Las Vegas where I presented a keynote on risk management and performance. The summit was very well planned, organized, and executed. The speakers and panel participants talked not just theory but provided practical examples of the benefits and challenges of using GRC technologies to improve their [...]
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by French Caldwell | January 3, 2013 | 1 Comment
I had a good discussion with Erik Heidt today about IT GRC management tools. We were talking about why there is an IT GRCM market that is distinct from the EGRC platform market. It’s clear that there is a separate market — vendors like Agiliance, RSAM, Lockpath and Modulo are IT GRC specific. The buyer [...]
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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 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
by French Caldwell | August 13, 2012 | Comments Off
Living inside the capital beltway, you meet all kinds of people that have jobs that just don’t have any equivalency anywhere else: Like the lady I talked to last week who provides advice on safety issues associated with the modernization program for the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile. I mentioned to her a recent GAO report [...]
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Category: GRC public policy Risk Management Strategic Planning Tags:
by French Caldwell | March 22, 2012 | Comments Off
Gartner conducted a global survey of CEOs and other senior executives concerning their business objectives, investment priorities and challenges. Some of the results related to risk management and compliance include: Regulation (22%) is ranked as the biggest business risk. Respondents also mentioned a wide variety of other business risk categories most of which were related [...]
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Category: compliance GRC Risk Management Tags:
by French Caldwell | November 23, 2011 | 1 Comment
For Americans Thanksgiving is a wonderful holiday because it involves eating, playing with an oblong leather air bladder, and being thankful for the blessings of friends, family and prosperity. Even with all the influx of family, it tends to be one of the least stressful holidays. However, as risk management professionals we must be careful [...]
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by French Caldwell | October 17, 2011 | Comments Off
This is my 13th Orlando Symposium as a Gartner analyst. I’m finding now that some clients are scheduling 1-1s because they know me and want to talk to me — regardless of what I cover as an analyst. That’s nice, but a bit of a challenge — I hate to tell you this, but I [...]
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Category: compliance GRC Risk Management Tags: compliance, Gartner Symposium, GRC, strategy, symposium
