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Regulatory compliance is not optional

If I haven't already shared this with you, I'm a partner in a regulatory compliance advisory firm.  We offer services to the banking sector that pretty much cover the entirety of the information security spectrum.  And as you might imagine, there's a fair amount of sales and marketing that go...

Rethinking compliance software

Here's me about to eat crow. After nearly a decade of railing against software as a solution to address the challenges of regulatory/industry compliance, I'm being forced to reconsider my position. I've long advocated that an institution or organization could just as easily develop manual...

Regulatory compliance bits and bytes

Many years ago I found myself in one of those awkward moments where I needed to pay for something but didn’t have enough cash on hand to cover the bill. Rather than do the smart thing and find an ATM I instead elected to rip through my car and dig up all of the...

Should bank examiners rely on audit and assessment reports?

A favorite cliché of mine is “if it wasn’t for the last minute nothing would ever get done.” Personally it’s sort of the way I’m wired and in my industry it’s an unwritten rule when it comes to many annual activities. There’s an...

Pandemic Planning: a quick update.

I wanted to post a quick update regarding the looming threat of a true pandemic event courtesy of the swine flu.

In the past forty-eight hours I’ve had conversations with three separate clients in which the subject of their pandemic response plans...

How’s your Pandemic Response Plan looking today?

I started my day yesterday by finding my 12-year-old sitting with his eyes riveted on the laptop screen reading what I figured was something either on Facebook or a sports related website.  I only wish.  Turns out he was fixated on the breaking news covering the swine flu. Much like his...