Business resiliency from the perspective of COVID-19

Since the beginning of 2020 and especially in these recent months the global community has been affected by the outbreak of COVID-19. Occurrences like these are the ones where the importance of disciplines such as risk management and business continuity is truly emphasized. Crises like these, no doubt,[…]

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January 2, 2020
The GRC approach to Cyber Security

GRC is an acronym for governance, risk management, and compliance. But, as a concept, it means much more than those three separate terms put together. Wikipedia provides a good definition for the concept; Governance, risk management, and compliance is aiming to assure that an organization reliably achieve its[…]

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October 31, 2017
Hidden Cost of Spreadsheets

Due to their versatility and ubiquity, spreadsheets tend to become the default solutions for a variety of enterprise functions. However, the use of spreadsheets to support compliance and risk management process results in slow, manual processes, opportunities for inaccuracy and error, impediments to business performance, increased risk exposures,[…]

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October 31, 2017
GRI – Global Reporting Initiative

We have been closely tracking the European Union’s draft directive for the disclosure of non-financial and diversity information by certain large companies.  A major hurdle has just been cleared to adopt this directive,  it has cleared an important stage in the EU legislative process. On February 26th, 2014[…]

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