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From compliance to confidence: a practical guide to a proactive always on data privacy program
Read more: From compliance to confidence: a practical guide to a proactive always on data privacy programMost large organizations say they have privacy covered. And on paper, they do. In practice, privacy often lives as disconnected work: documents, templates, and one-off reviews that prove something happened once, not a system that controls what happens next. That gap matters because privacy risk is created by change. A new analytics use case. A…
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Beyond the checkbox: A value‑based guide to enterprise conflict of interest management
Read more: Beyond the checkbox: A value‑based guide to enterprise conflict of interest managementThe conflict-of-interest wake-up call Most organizations do have a conflict of interest (COI) policy. What they actually have, in practice, is this: Legacy GRC will tell you that’s “good coverage.” It isn’t. It’s paperwork. Conflicts of interest rarely blow up because they were hidden. They blow up because they were normalized, misunderstood, or never escalated until after a decision was made and challenged. If you’re trying to run effective value-based…
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What a Head of Controls looks for in a GRC platform: A real-life case study and the common mistakes to avoid
Read more: What a Head of Controls looks for in a GRC platform: A real-life case study and the common mistakes to avoidAt CoreStream GRC, we recently wrapped up a successful GRC implementation with Wickes, and it highlighted something we see time and again. The difference between a smooth GRC rollout and a painful one is rarely about features alone. It usually comes down to a handful of early decisions. Small choices that either remove friction or…
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Stop playing defense: The comprehensive guide to enterprise risk management for value-based GRC leaders
Read more: Stop playing defense: The comprehensive guide to enterprise risk management for value-based GRC leadersThe enterprise risk management wake-up call Enterprise risk management (ERM) has been talked about for years. Yet, in practice, many programs still amount to little more than documentation and reporting. While, they may look reassuring on paper, they are rarely tested when it matters. In our conversation with our expert community, we have seen that…
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What the team has learnt in 2025: 6 quick fixes for GRC
Read more: What the team has learnt in 2025: 6 quick fixes for GRC2025 has been a revealing year for Governance, Risk and Compliance teams. Across CoreStream GRC’s community events in London and New York, industry events like #RISK Europe, our design workshops and hundreds of conversations with clients and experts, one interesting theme kept surfacing. Many of the most common GRC challenges are not structural failures. They…
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Why public sector teams choose CoreStream GRC for information asset management
Read more: Why public sector teams choose CoreStream GRC for information asset managementPublic sector organizations are under constant pressure to manage complex information environments and stay compliant with GDPR, the DSP Toolkit and internal information governance standards. A reliable information asset register is no longer a nice-to-have. It is the baseline for safe data processing, confident audits, and accountable governance. This is where CoreStream GRC stands out. Public sector teams choose…
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What GRC leaders want in 2026: insights shaping the next chapter of CoreStream GRC
Read more: What GRC leaders want in 2026: insights shaping the next chapter of CoreStream GRCCoreStream GRC hosted community events, with industry risk and compliance leaders, in London and New York across a variety of sectors including retail, banking, technology and defense, to ask the key questions: “The best ideas come from the community. When we get everyone in a room, you see the value immediately, and we take that…
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A practical guide to information asset management for public sector teams
Read more: A practical guide to information asset management for public sector teamsHow to understand, manage and secure public sector information assets with confidence. Public sector teams work in high-pressure information environments. Sensitive data sits across clinical systems, legacy tools, cloud services and spreadsheets. If you cannot see what you hold, why you hold it, or understand how it moves, you cannot meet GDPR or your governance…
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Top GRC tech trends emerging from #RISK Europe
Read more: Top GRC tech trends emerging from #RISK EuropeThis year’s #RISK Europe 2025 brought together the GRC tech community together under one roof. Across the conference, the conversations were driven by one urgent theme: organizations cannot keep pace with today’s risks using yesterday’s systems. Vendors, regulators and risk teams came together with the same goal in mind. To understand where GRC technology is…
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Equity and allyship; a recap of our conversation with women in GRC at #RISK Europe 2025
Read more: Equity and allyship; a recap of our conversation with women in GRC at #RISK Europe 2025Ahead of 2026’s Women in GRC awards, CoreStream GRC’s, Lucy Montague, moderated the discussion with four female leaders who have helped shape the direction of risk, governance and compliance across major organizations: Topic: Equity in action: women transforming the culture of GRC Moderator: Panelists: Together, they explored what it really takes for women not just…
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CASE STUDY: Regulatory Compliance for Energy
When regulatory intelligence hits reality: what working with global energy and resources companies taught us about managing thousands of obligations If you work inside a global energy company, you already know this: regulation is not something you “check in on.” It runs through operations, assets, contractors, joint ventures, and trading activity every single day. Across…
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CASE STUDY: Policy Management for Private Equity Firm
What modern policy management looks like: lessons from a private equity governance overhaul Most organizations do not struggle with policy management because they lack policies. They struggle because policies stop at documents. Writing more of them does not fix the problem. No matter how often policies are drafted, reviewed, updated, approved, and filed away, the…
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CASE STUDY: SOX Management for Mining
How a global miner rebuilt their SOX management across every entity, and what other US organizations can learn Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) programs rarely fail because teams do not know what the controls are. They fail because execution gets lost across entities, sites, and process owners, and the “truth” ends up scattered across spreadsheets, Visio maps, and email threads. That…
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