Enterprise Risk Management is a practice that has been around for decades, tracing its roots all the way back to the early 1970s. It garnered much attention in the early 2000s when the New York Stock Exchange required all of its listed companies to mandate their Audit Committees to “discuss policies with respect to risk assessment and management.” 

To implement a strategic, efficient and sustainable governance, risk and compliance (GRC) program, organizations need integrated technologies, expert resources and a unified view into business processes across IT, Finance, Operations and Legal domains. 

This Economist Intelligence Unit white paper looks into how companies are ascending the maturity curve of effective management of enterprise risk and compliance and demonstrates that a unified approach can actually help reduce costs – and optimize business performance. 

This white paper introduces a data protection appliance designed to meet the complex demands of the modern enterprise. 

This e-guide discusses the NERC compliance security threats, better cybersecurity through risk management, and what enterprise security administrators can do to defend themselves against such attacks. 

View this resource to learn more about how your organization can respond and increase their focus on refining sales and operations planning processes. It outlines how companies can reevaluate and distribute their channel strategies and strengthen relationships. 

As the global economy slowly heals, finance leaders are looking to fulfill the promise of the last 20 years. Much of the hard work has been done, the infrastructure largely in place. The challenge is to build upon this platform to drive dramatic improvement in the quality and value that finance delivers. 

This month’s cover story is on useful and affordable encryption options for preventing data loss in your organization’s riskiest endpoints. Other articles in this issue cover cloud security, Symantec’s recent acquisitions, compliance management, and a debate over hiring convicted hackers. Read these great articles and more in this month’s issue. 

This Technical Standard provides a taxonomy describing the factors that drive risk – their definitions and relationships. This Technical Standard is not a reference or tutorial on how to assess or analyze risk, as there are many such references already available. 

This report from the Corporate Executive Board, based on extensive research with Chief Information Security Officers, identifies the top 10 security imperatives for 2012. 

Unmanaged changes to IT systems and networks can recklessly increase risk to enterprises. The key is rolling out an accepted change management process, and sticking to it. Read this magazine and find out how a consistent change management process puts you in charge. 

This data deduplication technology tutorial will look at all of the data dedupe alternatives and take a look at some of the most significant deduplication backup products. Learn about global data deduplication, what to look for in a data deduplication product, inline vs. post-processing deduplication, and more. 

In part one of this tutorial on continuous data protection backup, learn about the latest CDP tools, how CDP has grown over the past few years, and the history of CDP tools and how they are evolving.