Anatomy of Compliance Risk
Everything happens in the presence of uncertainty, and this uncertainty creates the opportunity for risk.
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Are You Neglecting Your Compliance Boundary?
When it comes to compliance there is a boundary that exists between what is inside an organization and what is outside. This compliance...
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Taming the Dragon of Uncertainty
When it comes to business, life, and of course compliance, there are dragons that come across our path that cannot or should not be...
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A New Year and A New Framework for Risk Management
Over the last several years what is traditionally called risk management has undergone significant criticism from professionals,...
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Obligation’s Hierarchy of Needs
Not all obligations are the same or require the same capabilities or approaches to satisfy. Knowing the differences can help you better...
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Surprise me now, surprise me later, but never say I am not surprised.
When it comes to risk & compliance no one wants to be surprised. That’s why organizations put in place controls of various kinds to avoid...
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How to Make Compliance Soar
Compliance is often considered as a hindrance more than a help. Many organizations believe that they might do better if they were less...
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The Taxonomy of an Obligation
When it comes to improving compliance it is important to know not only what your obligations are but also how each obligation has been...
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Finding Good Dragons
Compliance at its core is about contending with risk. For the most part this has taken the form of addressing the negative side to...
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Are Your Risk Measures Valid?
In this article we take a look at the nature of risk reduction controls through the lens of barrier analysis. This is a common practice...
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The Cost of Obligation Debt
The notion of debt or more specifically technical debt has proven to be a helpful metaphor when discussing financial costs with respect...
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How Do We Manage Cyber Safety - Part 3
This blog post continues our series on Cyber Safety where we have explored various standards, frameworks and guidelines to address...
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An Objective View of Obligations
ISO 19600 and 37301 define compliance as the outcome of meeting a company's obligations. These obligations arise from such things as...
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How Do We Manage Cyber Safety - Part 2
This blog post is a continuation in our series on Cyber Safety. In this article we explore several guidelines, standards, and frameworks...
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Manage Legal Risk with ISO 31022:2020
Earlier this year (May 2020) the International Standards Organization (ISO) published their legal risk management guidelines, ISO...
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Seeing Compliance as a Whole
When it comes to compliance many believe that it all comes down to integrity. When it comes to integrity, according to Dr. Henry Cloud,...
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How Do We Manage Cyber Safety?
In this blog article we continue to explore the topic of cyber security or more rightly cyber safety. Cyber security mostly refers to...
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Catastrophic Harm
In 2020 we saw Lebanon's government in response to the explosion in Beirut on August 4th killing more than 200 people. This explosion...
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Organizational Hazards
In this article we will look at a different kind of hazard. Not a physical hazard such as a toxic chemical or flammable gas which are...
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The Compliance Dance – Closing gaps and raising standards
When it comes to meeting revenue, margins, and overall business objectives many organizations establish performance-based systems and...
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Places to Intervene in a System
Compliance systems are used to help companies stay between the lines as well as improve the certainty of meeting stakeholder obligations....
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A Failure in Cybersecurity – Lack of Intention
When we hear the phrase cybersecurity many things may come to mind. You might think of such things as: Viruses and malware Email spam...
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Two Kinds of Compliance Resiliency
Compliance resiliency is important to maintain compliance in response to changes to business or business climate. For organizations to...
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Mission Report: 3 Years Later
Over 3 years ago we launched Lean Compliance in response to the lack of sustainable compliance effectiveness across mostly ever sector as...
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