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Study: Open-Source Software Risks Are Rampant
A newly released study finds that the vast majority of software systems that businesses use to manage their operations rely to at least some extent on open-source software — and the vast majority of that open-source code contains multiple high-risk vulnerabilities. So says the 2025 Open Source Security and Risk Analysis Report, released Tuesday by…
Read MoreParsing Trump’s Latest Power Grab
Today I want to return to President Trump’s efforts to consolidate executive power, and what that might mean for regulatory compliance and corporate governance if he succeeds. Our latest example worth dissecting: his executive order issued last week to take control of independent government agencies. Those agencies include regulators near and dear to compliance professionals’…
Read MoreMore Musings on FCPA Enforcement
I wanted to share more thoughts today about President Trump’s order to pause all enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Lots of corporate compliance professionals have been talking about it — and while nobody has any clear sense yet of what comes next, we do have a better sense of the important questions to…
Read MoreTrump Halts FCPA Enforcement
OK, the inevitable has happened. President Trump has issued an executive order directing the Justice Department to halt all enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and devise new enforcement guidelines for future prosecution. Let’s all take a deep breath, and then move on to consider the implications for corporate compliance programs. Is Trump’s anti-anti-corruption…
Read MoreDeregulatory Bluster at CFPB
I didn’t expect to write another post so soon on the deregulatory shenanigans of the Trump Administration and the implications for compliance officers, but already we have an example too perfect to ignore: the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the deep freeze that agency entered this weekend. In case you missed it, on Saturday night…
Read MoreNew AG Signals FCPA Retreat
Well that didn’t take long: on the same day that Pam Bondi was sworn in as the next U.S. attorney general, Bondi issued a flurry of policy memos that will have the practical effect of taking several big steps back from enforcement of corporate misconduct laws. Bondi arrived at the Justice Department on Wednesday afternoon…
Read MoreDOGE, Baited & Switched
Don’t look now, compliance professionals, but remember the DOGE commission’s promises to streamline federal regulation and improve efficiency? That’s all falling apart. Now it’s just another Elon Musk slash-and-burn campaign to break everything and let others clean up the mess. At least some of those others will likely be you. It seems like just weeks…
Read MoreTrump Fires IGs Across Government
President Trump fired more than a dozen inspectors general across the federal government Friday night, yet another sign that Trump has little concern about objective mechanisms for accountability in his administration. The president fired at least 12 inspectors general, according to an article in the Washington Post, although other news outlets later reported that as…
Read MoreArchives, 2019: A Good FCPA Settlement
Radical Compliance is taking an off-the-grid vacation for the next 10 days, so we are reprinting some of readers’ favorite posts from the archives. The following ran in February 2019. Now that we’ve had a long weekend to digest the FCPA enforcement action imposed against Cognizant Technologies last week, compliance officers have a lot more…
Read MoreThe Question Behind Spotify and Joe Rogan
Sometimes a CEO says something so wrong-headed about corporate priorities that the statement cries out for a close read. Such is the case with Daniel Ek, chief executive of Spotify, and what he said this week about Joe Rogan and misinformation on the Spotify platform. Most of you probably know the basics of the Joe…
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