This week the Compliance Jobs Report has hiring news at Amazon, Philip Morris, Harman International, ICE (no, not that one), Emirates, and more. Indivior has had a changing of the compliance guard, plus other promotions at Bristol Myers Squibb, Comcast, Kohler, Rio Tinto, and elsewhere. Job leads are in medical devices, sporting goods, and cable…
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Good news if you’re still smarting from that Amazon Web Services failure earlier this week that paralyzed large swaths of the business world! Regulators in New York just released fresh guidance about how to manage the cybersecurity risks of third-party technology providers. Apparently we all need a refresher course, so let’s take a look. The…
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Last week the Justice Department indicted Smartmatic, a voting technology company, for violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. For compliance professionals it’s a bizarre moment: after 10 months of the Trump Administration telling us it would limit FCPA enforcement severely, the department turned around and took one of the most forceful actions it can against…
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We’re back to artificial intelligence today, with fresh research on how well various AI models perform at tasks that compliance teams encounter on a daily basis. The bottom line: yes, just about all AI models are generally good at lots of compliance work, but integrating AI into compliance workstreams is still going to be a…
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Lots of notable names in the Compliance Jobs Report this week. We have new compliance chiefs at Qatar Airways and Scout Motors; other new hires at Mastercard, Sleep Number Mattress, X-Rite, and Adtran; plus promotions at AbbVie, Boeing, Huntington Bank, and lots more. Job leads are in skincare, higher education, and banking; and don’t forget…
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Regulators in New York have fined eight auto insurance businesses for poor cybersecurity practices that led to widespread privacy breaches in 2021. It’s our latest example of what cybersecurity risk looks like in the modern era, with numerous points that IT auditors and privacy compliance professionals can ponder. The New York Department of Financial Services…
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We haven’t talked about whistleblower awards in a while, but a recent spat over one such award from the Securities and Exchange Commission might be worth our attention. It raises some interesting questions about whether the SEC’s whistleblower award policies might squelch employees’ incentives to first report misconduct concerns on internal hotlines. The SEC issued…
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More glum news from the anti-fraud world: A new report says financial firms are getting hammered by rising levels of AI-enhanced fraud — but at the same time, consumers are embracing online privacy technologies that make anti-fraud efforts more difficult because firms can’t easily verify an online user’s identity. So says Fingerprint, which on Tuesday…
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By now most people have heard that grand juries in Washington and Chicago are declining to indict people arrested for anti-ICE protests. The political subtext here is that juries in Democratic regions won’t indict people arrested by the Trump Administration. What does that tell us about the breakdown in cultural norms within large organizations? That…
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I spent this week in Lithuania attending a conference for compliance officers in Eastern Europe, and this being Europe, of course that meant artificial intelligence and data privacy were all over the agenda. So it’s rather poetic that European regulators also just published fresh guidance on human oversight of automated decision-making systems. The guidance was…
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