How does "False Information" impact the risk to your organization? Decisions based upon faulty or inaccurate information is the root of many of the systemic failures of catastrophic history. The...

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As General Counsel are you keeping up with the latest technology being deployed in your enterprise? Do any of your employees use Twitter? What about your "Generation Y" and the use of P2P file...

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The Operational Risk threat matrix from "Advance Fee Fraud", "Nigerian Letter (419) Fraud, Foreign Lottery/Sweepstakes Fraud and "Overpayment Fraud" is still growing exponentially. During our...

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Travel risk to corporate executives is on the rise. Even if you are not an executive who can afford the services of personal body guards and armored cars, there are some prudent ways to mitigate the...

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Reputation risk is becoming more of a topic of discussion these days. The loss of reputation results in several outcomes both economic and personal. The fact is that most of the time organizations...

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What is on the mind of GCs in the United States and United Kingdom? What are they saying about the costs of litigation, labor and employment, the financial/subprime crisis, regulatory investigations...

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Modern Day Operational Risk Management, requires a multi-skilled and versatile individual. Someone who understands the difference between "Information Warfare" and "Cyberterrorism." And if you were...

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A few years ago there was an anonymous posting on CSO Online about "Doing the Right Thing". It could only be about the rules and policies set down by the ethics committee. Right? "Directors and...

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Intellectual property theft, corporate espionage, transnational economic crime and the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) are on collision course with international 21st Century investigators. New...

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Remote Digital Forensics is quickly migrating into a vast science that requires a sound combination of both legal and technical expertise. The EDD process has been helpful in educating the...

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In a July 2008 a global Economist Intelligence Unit survey; 71% of the financial services executives admitted that their Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) strategy has not been fully implemented. 59%...

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The "Wall Street to Main Street" sound bytes are coming fast and furious on our multiple channels of media. Attacks on the US Embassy in Yemen and the Marriott hotel in Pakistan provide us with the...

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As the headlines continue to shout for more oversight, regulation and legal actions in the aftermath of chaos in global financial markets; the corporate investigations and security departments are at...

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The forensic professionals have been busy at Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae over the past six months, and we are only looking at the tip of the ice berg. The results are in and Uncle Sam (US) is now...

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The "Red Flags" rule has some banks and financial institutions scrambling to get compliant by the upcoming November deadline. The corporate governance and compliance teams are working hard to make...

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OPEN SOURCE WARFARE: Cyberwar is here to stay. Think about the leverage. Imagine the impact on global commerce from the Board of Directors perspective. Is it possible to disrupt business operations...

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The San Francisco DA "Operational Risk" factors have spiked now that they have released passwords in public documents for their internal VPN networks. The office of San Francisco District Attorney...

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How long does it take for a lethal attack to occur against an at-risk person? Just 2 Seconds is the latest book by Gavin De Becker. Along with his long time colleagues Tom Taylor and Jeff Marquart...

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