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Understanding Continuous Compliance

The Community June 23rd, 2010 0 Comments

Continuous Compliance means developing a pro-active, enterprise risk assessment and audit program. In the wake of our current economy, security threats, and the customer’s need for privacy, financial institutions must implement continuous compliance programs to be successful.

It enables transparency as organizations have a clear picture of the risks their organization may be exposed to and take measures to rectify. Organizations are able to:

  • Implement an enterprise-wide approach to risk and compliance.
  • Continuously manage and monitor risks across the enterprise.
  • Understand their business environs and make insightful decisions.

It increases efficiency as organizations use less manpower and resources to complete audits and compliance requirements.  Organizations are able to:

  • Automate risk, audit and compliance processes.
  • Eliminate labor intensive tasks, thus maximizing resources and reducing cost.

It improves agility enabling organization to stay abreast of risks and threats. Organizations are able to:

  • Be nimble and react quickly to any changes in business environs.
  • Implement and enforce policies that govern the enterprise.

To learn more contact us or comment below!

Finovate Video is Up!

Brad June 9th, 2010 0 Comments

The videos for the FinovateSpring conference have been posted and are now up. We prepared close to 10 hours for this seven minutes and based off audience, they really liked what we did. Thanks to Jim Bruene and Eric Mattson again for the opportunity!

[Video below]

Webinar – Benefits of Virtualization and the Compliance Behind It

Brad June 7th, 2010 0 Comments

Thanks to all that were able to attend our webinar last Friday on Benefits of Virtualization and the Compliance Behind It. If you are wanting the slides for the presentation, you can download the PDF here.

Thanks everyone!

RiskKey – New and Improved Reporting

Brad June 2nd, 2010 0 Comments

IT Compliance (demo) | Company Recommendations (Consultants Only) - (Build 20100401064631)

Hi everybody,

Hope you all had a great Memorial Day weekend. We wanted to share with you the updates that are coming out today. Along with a longer list of updates (see bottom of our dev updates post for details) we are happy to announce our newly organized reporting area within RiskKey.

new-reports

With reports, we want to create a better alignment with the different project types that come within RiskKey (project mgmt, risk assessment, and audit workflows). So our reports reflect that with the new category headers. The only additional category we created was the ‘Recommendation Reports’ area due to the recommendations (AKA findings) are in both risk assessments and audit projects.

Reports Permissions by Project Type

With all that said, we also included the permissions to only be able to run reports depending on the type of project that you selected. Here’s an example of a ‘project management’ type project. See how the other reports are grayed out because they don’t apply:

reporting
You will be unable to run grayed out options.

New Reports Added

While we were at it, we added some new reports to use at your disposal. Here in a brief description of each of the new reports:

  • Requested Documents – This is a printable document request list for the project you’re in. This will allow you to see the status of all files being requested and additional details like fulfilled, person responsible, and file name.
  • By Starred Items – See screenshot below for where you can ‘star’ an assessment or objective item. This report will run any assessment or objective report (depending on which report you run) and show you which items are currently starred. Great for going back to the ones that you need to follow back up on.
  • IT Compliance (demo) | Assessments - (Build 20100401064631)

  • By Current Status – This report was created in combination of our folks and some user feedback to create a report that will really knock your socks off. This allows you to see the current status of any recommendation within a project. The categories statuses include: Past Due, Outstanding, Incomplete, and Completed Recommendations. This is a recommendations report. See the screenshot.

Lastly, within the reports we spent some time improving the readability by increasing the font sizes, bolding some category headings, and reorganizing the information in a more easy, readable way.

We hope you like what we’ve done!