Doug Cornelius on compliance for private equity real estate
Compliance Week editor Matt Kelly and I talked about “cloud computing” and how such IT systems can affect compliance. Listen to the conversation. (Time: 8.5 min.; file size: 7.7 Mb) Let’s try to define cloud computing a little better. It really encompasses a broad swath of services that can be put into three main groups. … Continue reading “Cloud Computing and Compliance”
Monday night, I am heading over to the The Evening in the Cloud program at this year’s Enterprise 2.0 Conference. They asked me to help grill the vendors on compliance issue More software and business operations are being pushed into the cloud. Why buy the hardware and software when someone else will run them for … Continue reading “Compliance and Cloud Computing at Enterprise 2.0”
Sara Peters wrote an article on Security Provoked: How Can You Prove Compliance in the Cloud? Whether you’re in the midst of an audit or a forensic investigation, thorough logs are the key to proving compliance with security regulations. So how do you prove your organization is/was compliant when you aren’t able to maintain logs? … Continue reading “Compliance and Cloud Computing”
The The Evening in the Cloud session at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference was fun. David Berlind Editor-At-Large and General Manager of TechWeb was the moderator. I sat in the customer role beside Christopher Reichert of the MIT Sloan CIO Symposium. Sean Poulley VP Online Collaboration Services of IBM, Rajen Sheth Senior Product Manager of Google … Continue reading “Evening in the Cloud and Compliance”
These are my notes from the Improving your compliance program through the use of technology session at the Private Fund Compliance Forum 2012. Moderator: Graham Winfrey, Staff Writer, PEI Media Panel Members: Jeff Faber, Chief Financial Officer, Trafelet & Company, LLC Stephen Marsh, Founder & CEO, Smarsh Scott Ring, General Counsel, Bessemer Venture Partners Based on … Continue reading “Improving your compliance program through the use of technology”
These are some recent compliance-related stories that caught my eye: Take A Seat, and Other Bribes by Scott Greenfield in Simple Justice And if you don’t think the FCPA matters to you, who do you think it paying the many millions of dollars forked over to lawyers and government, not to mention the opportunity costs … Continue reading “Compliance Bits and Pieces for October 29”
Sort of. The Supreme Court issued its ruling in Ontario v. Quon regarding a police chief reviewing the content of a police officer’s text messages with consent or a warrant. Many commenters hoped that the Court would issue a broad statement on an employee’s privacy rights in this age of cloud computing and web 2.0. … Continue reading “Supreme Court Rules on the Privacy of Text Messages”
Lots of discussion about the Quon case focused on the lack of technology expertise by the Justices on the Supreme Court. Actually, most people labeled them as Luddites. DC Dicta even claims that Chief Justice Roberts writes his opinions in long hand with pen and paper. This issue that I am hoping to see addressed … Continue reading “Quon Roundup on Employee Computer Privacy”
Today, I am in San Francisco at the Enterprise 2.0 Conference at the Moscone Center, speaking on a panel about social media policies. I gave a presentation on Cloud Computing at the 2009 version of the Conference in Boston: Evening in the Cloud and Compliance and a presentation on blogging at the 2008 version of … Continue reading “Social Media: Policy Formation & Risk Management”
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Protiviti presented a webinar on the legal implications of social networking. These are my notes. Rocco Grillo of Protiviti started off the presentation. Social networks have become part of many people’s day-to-day work. They have not replaced email, but are still robust communication tools. The first presenter offered the … Continue reading “The Legal and Regulatory Implications of Internet Privacy”
