Category: Publication

Cyber Risk – Trends and Critical Infrastructure The U.S. federal government, banks, and businesses are spending big bucks in a war against hackers and cyber criminals. Cybersecurity budgets are rising in all industries alongside the cyber crime figures. Consider some...

Bangladesh and Reasons Buildings Collapse by Timothy J. Corbett Certification Board, ERMA / President, SmartRisk USA Introduction On 24 April 2013, an eight-story commercial building, Rana Plaza, collapsed in Savar, a sub-district near Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh. At least...

Main Risks In Cocoa Sector of Cameroon By: Lawong Kinenla Edith Program Coordinator at Douala School of Business Many nations like Cameroon are emerging hence additional businesses are springing up, other are taking advantage of their strategic position in the...

How to deal with Risks in E-commerce Merchants have realized that risks remain in the background when they try to find ways in balancing security concerns and customer ease in transaction. Fortunately, the emergence of technology provides some available choices...

The G20 Task Force Report Implications on Business Presently the financial sector is experiencing a rising force in the area of disclosures and reporting of risks pertaining to climate change. The release of the last report from the Carney/Bloomberg Task...

Investors Request Comprehensive Social Impact Information Investors’ disposition to climate change is presently changing, investors globally are now beginning to realize that environmental effects result in more risk exposure to their investments and low corporate returns. More pressure will definitely...

Only 100 Companies are Responsible for 71% of Global Emissions A recent research has shown that over 70% of the global fossil fuel emissions since 1988 have been emitted by just 100 companies. The Carbon Majors Report states how a...

Cloud Computing and the Enterprise Risk Management: Opportunities and Risks (Part 1/3) by: Amir R. Saghafi Lasemi CISRCP, CRCMP, CSOE, MMgt Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Consultant Introduction The swift and all-encompassing advancement of information technologies has benefited the realm...

The Importance of Risk and Issue Management in IT Project Be a part of IT projects means that you have to deal with project’s risks and issues.Although many people use the word risk and issue as an interchangeable words, but...

Enterprise Risk Management and Strategy – Issues and challenges in Malaysian Landscape by Wee Hock Kee Chairperson, Enterprise Risk ManagementA Asia The global financial crisis which enveloped the world since 2007 and reaching its height in 2009, has critically repositioned...