Operational Risk Management...

As Bank of America now joins ChoicePoint to try and explain the theft of not just thousands but millions of data records, one has to wonder...

Association of Contingency Planners | Washington DC Chapter | February Chapter Meeting Disaster Recovery Plans are only part of the picture!...

NFPA 1600 Included in the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 Senate Bill : S.2845 Passed by the U.S. Congress and sign...

The latest ID Theft scandal with ChoicePoint is just the "Tip of the Iceberg". The reputational losses will soon be felt as firms...

President Bush on Thursday named his top representative in Iraq John Negroponte as the new DNI or director of national intelligence, a posi...

BIS has a white paper on outsourcing in the Financial Services Sector Case study 4: OCC action against a bank and service provider In 2002, ...

The thought of the "A" word (Audit) brings shortness of breath to many in executive management these days. As this Audit Agitatio...

Executive Summary There is a growing threat on the business horizon. The risk of loss from inadequate or failed processes, people, and syste...

Quova has their act together when it comes to compliance and security issues for e-commerce. The idea of the Internet as a borderless busine...

UBS has their own interpretations of Operational Risk and it's definitions. Of particular note is this: Operational Risk is the ris...

If this Optimize survey is an indicator, the CIO's job is becoming more complex each day. The CIO's role continues to evolve, a...

The Public Readiness Index is on the way and the question is: Is business ready? In one of his last public speeches as the head of the ...

The process and systems for managing Terrorism Risk are changing as the commercial real estate finance and building owners or developers str...

If Pat McAnally from Sungard is correct, then Information Technology Risk is here to stay especially when it comes to Continuity of Business...

What did the US learn about security from the Presidential Elections and the respective conventions in New York and Boston? Michael Smith ...

We have to agree with Simon Moss of Mantas. Prior to September 11th and the USA PATRIOT Act, financial institutions had a similar outloo...

Why are people getting nervous about companies like ChoicePoint ? This article in the Washington Post by Robert O'Harrow comes from hi...

Will COSO become the Operational Risk standard for Basel II? This paper by Patrick McConnell argues: The wording of Basel II is suffici...

This iJet advertorial explains many of the benefits of having a travel risk management provider for your global corporate executives. ...

Foreign Assets Control Regulations for the U.S. Financial Services industry is a vital area of operational risk management in the enterpris...

Operational Risk is not just for the big banking institutions any longer. The latest research from Financial Insights indicates that the r...

If you don't have one yet, consider this one: A Model 2005 Operational Risk Resolution The organization shall develop, implement, ...

The latest catastrophic Tsunami natural disaster as a result of a huge undersea earthquake reminds us of the need for effective contingency ...

As the U.S. recovers from yet another accounting scandal at Fannie Mae , other countries are getting on board with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. ...

Pfizer has 10% of it's revenues coming to a halt as a result of the Celebrex Warnings about it's link to greater risk of Heart Atta...

In the rush to get someone into the job, most high level qualified candidates have already said no and the current US administration is scra...

The latest Tower Group Study says spending will be up to $362.B with 72% in North America and the EU. Tower said consumer banking will d...

The Gartner Group has determined that their clients need to prepare for the upcoming Avian Flu pandemic that is being discussed among the W...

In Deloitte's 2004 Risk Management Survey more than half of the respondents say integration of systems to handle Operational Risk is a ...

You have been indicted. This Boardmember article by Peter Higgins of 1SecureAudit articulates the essence of an effective OPS Risk compli...

Last summer Scott Berinato penned this article. It sums up the many facets of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) and the challenges for the ...

With an estimated 4.5 million "Phishing" attacks last month now being reported by Messagelabs our customers and clients need to b...

What is H.R. 4830? A bill introduced last summer in the U.S. House of Representatives to amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to dire...

US companies with a market cap between $75 and $700 Million will get a 45 day extension for compliance with SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002)...

This article from Charles Baldwin highlights the recent rulings under the Whistleblower provisions under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. I...

This latest article by McKinsey may have some interesting insight: Banks are increasing their coverage against operational risk to compl...

The UK's Civil Contingencies Act is on the door step and David Honor of Continuity Central has the following observations: No UK org...

The topics of the annual Overseas Security Advisory Council Briefings and 8th Annual Transnational Crime Seminar indicate what's on the...

The banks have a different perspective on ID Theft and privacy than consumers. As this Bank Tech article points out. Late last month, f...

The National Incident Management System is soon to be approved. An integrated national plan for response to terrorist attacks and other ...

The long anticpated compliance date with Sarbanes-Oxley Section 404 arrived today and many organizations are not ready. Although many co...

As the corporate risk management factions realize that they need to converge in their coordination, global assurance management will take ho...

Risk mitigation training solution delivers greater confidence, lower costs, and increased peace of mind for this Washington, D.C. commercia...

Business Process Outsourcing is a hot issue and as this article by The Heritage Foundation so clearly states: Defending the nation again...

Regulations such as Sarbanes-Oxley are sending auditors to the pencil sharpener. CSOs must learn to cooperate and share expertise, without g...

George W. Bush won his Second Term as President of the United States today. "To make this nation stronger and better, I will need y...

The dialogue from a recent CSO Conference that focused on information sharing keeps coming back to why it is so hard to accomplish. Only...

Robert Young Pelton's Travel Tips may be common sense. These are also the type of tips you get from those expensive executive seminars...

John and Stan could not have said it any better.... By John Van Decker and Stan Lepeak 10 May 2004 | Meta Group One common mispercept...