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Governance, Risk Management & Compliance Resources

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Governance describes the overall management approach through which senior executives direct and control the entire organization, using a combination of management information and hierarchical management control structures. Governance activities ensure that critical management information reaching the executive team is sufficiently complete, accurate and timely to enable appropriate management decision-making, and provide the control mechanisms to ensure that strategies, directions and instructions from management are carried out systematically and effectively.

Risk Management is the set of processes through which management identifies, analyses, and where necessary responds appropriately to risks that might adversely affect realization of the organization's business objectives. The response to risks typically depends on their perceived gravity, and involves controlling, avoiding, accepting or transferring them to a third party. Whereas organizations routinely manage a wide range of risks (e.g. technological risks, commercial/financial risks, information security risks etc.), external legal and regulatory compliance risks are arguably the key issue in GRC.

Compliance means conforming with stated requirements. At an organizational level, it is achieved through management processes that identify the applicable requirements (defined for example in laws, regulations, contracts, strategies and policies), assess the state of compliance assess the risks and potential costs of non-compliance against the projected expenses to achieve compliance, and hence prioritize, fund and initiate any corrective actions deemed necessary.

Governance, Risk Management & Compliance

The challenge for administrators is to develop policies and controls that reduce risks, meet compliance requirements, and provide actionable business intelligence.

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