If you’re in a reflective move while considering New Year’s resolutions, you may want to dash off a comment to the SEC regarding the Dodd-Frank’s so-called Volcker Rule. Late last month, the SEC extended the comment period regarding the proposal to Feb. 13. more

Information wants to be free, but the unfettered flow of company information can pose problems. One of the challenges companies face as social media becomes more integrated into their operations is how to manage the use of various social platforms in a sensible way. Some companies, like Xerox, are well aware of the need to strike a sensible, risk-intelligent approach to managing social media. Xerox uses new social media program ideas that crop up throughout the organization as an opportunity to hold candid discussions about the business value of these programs, the risk implications and how these ideas might also serve as opportunities to educate the workforce about social media.

To get a better read on the risk management challenges social media pose, I chatted with Scott Oppliger, CEO of SocialVolt. more

In a recent Forbes‘ blog entry, LRN CEO Dov Seidman shares a concern he heard from a fellow CEO: “There are times I wonder, ‘Will I be the next Mubarak?’”

The worry seems a bit overblown on first glance; after some deeper consideration, however, it seems right on the mark. After all, the era of the social organization is upon us. Social media, mobile technology and ubiquitous connectivity are knocking down previous hierarchical structures and boundaries that separated different “levels” of employees and also employees from customers and other external stakeholders. more

Given their (well-deserved) emphasis on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) enforcement, the future of Dodd-Frank and increasingly complex IT-related issues (namely, privacy and security), risk and compliance managers can be forgiven if they put their GRC (governance, risk, compliance) technology learning on auto pilot.

They also might want to click into the reading mode of the holidays, thanks to a new Aberdeen report (one that requires a purchase) that looks at five current GRC technology trends. I recently chatted with Scott Goolik, ControlPanelGRC’s chief technology officer, to get his read on the report – and GRC-tech trends for 2012. more

The conventional wisdom holds that most companies have their operational and financial-reporting risk management capabilities under control. The problem resides in strategic risk management capabilities.

The conventional wisdom may be terribly wrong. more