It’s always useful to look at what your competition is doing. The same is true in drafting your code of conduct (or code of...
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IT Compliance
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month.
Check out the top tips to keep you safe online:
Know who you’re dealing with online.
Keep your web browsers and operating system up to date.
Back up important files.
Protect your children online.
Use security software tools as your first line of defense.
Use strong passwords or strong authentication technology to help protect...
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Workplace Computer Policy and the Attorney Client Privilege
Back in April, I mentioned a New Jersey case that found e-mail, sent during work hours on a company computer, was not protected by the attorney-client privilege: Compliance Policies and Email (Stengart v. Loving Care ) That case has now been overturned. It seems that a company’s policy on computer use may be more...
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Simplify Your Compliance Processes
Are your compliance processes too complicated? Let the cloud simplify them!
From Geek and Poke.
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Investor Relations 2.0
eBay took a bold move yesterday, using Web 2.0 tools for investor relations. During its first analysts’ meeting in three years, eBay management had a live twitter stream with live coverage of the meeting and bloggers with just less than live coverage of the meeting.
The securities industry seems to be struggling with Web...
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Blogging and Social Networking Policies
Here are some policies that I like for dealing with blogging and social networking sites:
IBM Social Computing Guidelines – Blogs, wikis, social networks, virtual worlds and social media
Cisco’s Internet Postings Policy
Sun Microsystems: Sun Guidelines on Public Discourse
BBC: Personal use of social networking and other third party websites (including blogging and personal web-space) (.pdf)
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Enforce Your Email and Web Acceptable Usage Policies
MessageLabs (now part of Symantec) published a whitepaper Not Just Words: Enforce Your Email And Web Acceptable Usage Policies. The Whitepaper was written by Nancy Flynn, Executive Director of the ePolicy Institute.
Email & Web Rule #1:
Comply with Legal and Regulatory Rules
Email & Web Rule #2:
Enforce Acceptable Usage Policy with Training and Technology
Email & Web...
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How To Keep The Corporate Website In Compliance With Securities Laws
Timothy Hearn of Dorsey and Whitney, penned SEC Provides Guidance On Use Of Company Web Sites in Cyberspace Lawyer Vol. 13, No. 9, Pgs. 8-12. Bowne’s Digest of Compliance professionals abstracted some of the highlights: Tips On How To Keep The Corporate Website In Compliance With Securities Laws.
The SEC has issued an interpretive release...
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Software License Compliance
Mike Sisco of Cutter Consortium wrote a case study on what to do about a softwre license problem in the context of an M&A transaction: Compliance Problems? Address All Issues Quickly.
If you encounter software license compliance problems in an M&A transaction, there are two ways to resolve the problem:
Point out the problem to the...
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IT for GRC: Improving Information Quality
Carole Switzer, President of OCEG and Lee Dittmar, principal of Deloitte Consulting LLP presented this webinar.
There is an imperative to improve governance, risk management and compliance processes to better manage risk, address increasing regulatory requirements, increased executive accountability and the fragmentation of information. It is about getting the right information, to the right person,...
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What are WIFs?
My notes from the EthicsPoint webinar on intake models and the value of web intake forms. The presenter was Erin Watkinson a business solutions consultant at EthicsPoint.
A custom web intake form is a replacement for paper based forms. You can use the web to report on issues.
Reporting should encourage employees to first go to...
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