Implications of the SEC Cybersecurity Disclosure Rule
The Privacy Insider Podcast Episode 4: Don't Be Evil: In the Hot Seat of Data Privacy, Part 1
Privacy Issues from Third-Party Website Tags
Episode 331- NAVEX State of Risk and Compliance Programs
What the Board Should Be Asking About the Compliance Program
Managing Social Media Risk
Compliance Lessons from Dating in Your 50s
Managing Compliance Risk for Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery
Common Scenarios Triggering False Claims Act Violations, Part 3: Claims and Investigations
False Claims Act Insights - The Art and Science of Corporate Compliance in Managing FCA Risk
Preparing for a Government Healthcare Audit
Episode 318 -- LRN's Recent Study Underscores Importance of Ethical Culture and Values-Based Leadership
Understanding the HHS OIG’s General Compliance Program Guidance
Climate Risk, the emerging risk
What's Going on with FCPA?
Compliance, Project Management, and Process Improvement
Leaning in on AI in Compliance Programs
PODCAST: Williams Mullen's Gavels & Gowns - Title IX Regulations - Changes on the Horizon
Episode 312 -- Eddie Green, CEO SnippetSentry, on Communications Preservation Risks
Behavioral Health Compliance
Compliance lessons are life lessons. Compliance professionals are, by their nature, optimistic people. They see challenges as new opportunities to strive closer to an ideal. Compliance professionals live in the shadow of...more
Most healthcare providers understand the importance of having a designated Compliance Officer. Someone needs to lead the organization’s compliance initiatives and be responsible for advising the CEO and governing body of...more
Companies have a vested interest in preserving internal communications for a variety of reasons — to hold actors accountable and to protect the organization from potential private and government claims or investigations that...more
Compliance professionals can face a lot of resistance in the course of their work: leaders who don’t have the time, budget limits, managerial indifference, and even outright hostility. But, sometimes the impediments are...more
One of the great things about having a podcast network is that I get to not only explore topics that I love but I get to tie them into compliance. Perhaps the best example is my award-winning series, Trekking Through...more
One of the benefits of old(er) age is perspective and experience. (As we age, we have to find the positive reasons to tout). If there is one thing (of many) the compliance profession has demonstrated, it is that compliance...more
You may not realize it, but your compliance program has a brand. Line employees and management all have a host of impressions about the compliance department that color how they respond to what you say and do. A strong brand...more
The Justice Department’s recent revisions to its Corporate Enforcement Program and its Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs stressed the importance of compensations systems and consequence management. The theoretical...more
I’m old enough to remember when seat belts were optional. And I remember people up in arms when seatbelt laws first passed. But now, my young adult children and their friends simply get in the car and buckle up without...more
Once defined, installed, and surrounded with a consequence management system, a corporate culture is not fixed in stone. To the contrary, as the business adapts through growth, innovation or in response to outside market and...more
This is a topic that every compliance professional has to address in one form or another. Chief compliance officers are so busy that they often cannot even take the time to tackle this difficult issue. This is a real...more
Chief compliance officers have a lot of issues to balance on their plate. Experienced CCOs know that it is not possible to complete every objective, balance every changing risk, and continuously improve their respective...more
Key Takeaways - As DOJ senior leadership signaled it would do since March, DOJ has now officially required as part of resolving a corporate enforcement action, that a Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and Chief Executive...more
CCOs, by definition, are careful and deliberate. It comes with the profession. As risk managers, CCOs are skilled in identifying, assessing and acting in a risk environment....more
Operation Lava Jato (Carwash) had a profound effect on business in Brazil, with countless companies caught up in one way or another in the corruption scandal. State oil company Petrobras was no exception, but, as is the case...more
Compliance & Investigations im Jahr 2025 - „Wirksame Compliance erfordert ganzheitliche Ansätze.“ Was ist für die Themen „Compliance & Investigations“ im Jahr 2025 zu erwarten? Fünf Thesen von Prof. Dr. Thomas Grützner...more
Compliance understanding of business processes is a critical part of understanding internal controls and a company’s risk profile. Compliance officers are adept in identifying and assessing risks. In doing so, a compliance...more
You can draft and design the best ethics and compliance program – and then fail. You can show every compliance professional an “effective” set of ethics and compliance controls, pristine, drafted elegantly, addressing each...more
The success of a compliance program depends on a number of factors. Perhaps one of the most important factors is the strength of the relationship between compliance professionals and business. Compliance depends on business...more
Chief compliance officers (CCOs) are talented professionals. As Donna Boehme always emphasizes, CCOs are subject matter experts (SMEs) in compliance risks, controls and mitigation. CCOs focus on legal and compliance risks...more
While my first posting highlighted the positive developments in the CCO’s role and professional development, the next two postings present troubling concerns....more
The Situation: The Department of Justice ("DOJ") has updated its "Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs" guidance for prosecutors. The Result: The updates provide additional insights into the factors the DOJ is...more
The Coronavirus health crisis has wrought many changes in the business world and corporate compliance. Over the next few blog posts, I want to explore in some depth what I see are the key changes for the Chief Compliance...more
Welcome back to Sherlock Holmes week. It does look like I will got carried away and it will become 10 days of Holmes and compliance as I am rereading the first volume of Holmes, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, and I find...more
One of the things that is true for literally every CCO, compliance practitioner or compliance professional is that you are only limited by your imagination....more