• Audit management 

    Audit management 

    What is audit management? Audit management is the process of planning, coordinating, executing, documenting, reporting, and tracking audits from start to finish. It gives organizations a structured way to decide what should be audited, why it matters, what evidence is needed, who owns findings, and how remediation is tracked through to closure. In governance, risk,…

  • Beyond the RAG chart: effective GRC reporting at board-level 

    Beyond the RAG chart: effective GRC reporting at board-level 

    Key takeaways  Introduction: from static snapshot to compliance story  Picture a typical quarterly board pack. The compliance slide shows 98% green, no red flags and no open questions, so the board moves on within a few minutes. Then, months later, a control failure that had in fact been recurring quietly for a year surfaces as a genuine incident, and the first question anyone asks…

  • Health compliance: how to manage HIPAA, HITRUST, AI Governance and Open Payments

    Health compliance: how to manage HIPAA, HITRUST, AI Governance and Open Payments

    Key takeaways for overlapping healthcare compliance requirements in North America Introduction: why is healthcare compliance becoming harder to manage? Healthcare compliance teams are no longer managing one major requirement at a time. They are dealing with HIPAA, HITECH, HITRUST, cyber risk, AI governance, Open Payments, conflict of interest and internal oversight at once. Those expectations…

  • Spotlight on Women in GRC: Sophie Walsh on trust, risk, and the Future of outcome-based GRC 

    Spotlight on Women in GRC: Sophie Walsh on trust, risk, and the Future of outcome-based GRC 

    In a recent Spotlight on Women in GRC podcast, Lucy Montague sat down with Global Director of Trust & Safety, Sophie Walsh, a risk, integrity and compliance leader whose career spans charities, global technology platforms, and some of the most complex risk environments in modern business. From social care and NGOs to digital regulation and e-commerce, Sophie’s work has been guided…

  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Privacy management 

    General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Data Privacy management 

    What is GDPR and Data Privacy management? The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is the EU data protection law that governs how organizations collect, use, store, share, protect, and delete personal data. Data privacy management is the ongoing process organizations use to meet GDPR and other privacy obligations in practice. In governance, risk, and compliance…

  • Compliance audit

    Compliance audit

    What is a compliance audit? A compliance audit is a structured review that checks whether an organization is meeting specific laws, regulations, standards, policies, contractual requirements, or internal controls. It helps confirm whether compliance requirements are understood, owned, evidenced, and operating in practice. In governance, risk, and compliance (GRC), a compliance audit matters because it…