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GRC

What is GRC? Governance, Risk Management, and Compliance Defined

GRC is a term used in business to describe the processes and tools that help companies manage their overall governance, risk management, and compliance efforts.

What’s on the Horizon? Top Grc Trends to Prepare For In 2024

Explore top governance, risk management, and compliance (GRC) trends and predictions that can empower your organization to make strategic decisions.

GRC Predictions for Banking and Financial Services in 2024

Gain valuable insights into critical GRC predictions for Banking and Financial Services (BFS) organizations in 2024. Stay ahead with our Learn Page. Read now!

BusinessGRC Buyer’s Guide: Find the Right Solution for Your Governance, Risk, and Compliance (GRC) Program

Download this guide to explore what is BusinessGRC, what kinds of GRC solutions are out there, and how to select the solution that works best for you.

The Future of GRC: 10 Trends for 2023 and Beyond

As your organization prepares and strategizes on how best to build business resilience while strengthening performance, you will require the big-picture risk view to make those decisions. Download this eBook to learn the top governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) trends for 2023.

How to Manage Interconnected GRC Risks: Top 5 Recommendations for the Digital Era

Learn what the top 5 recommendations are for managing interconnected GRC risks including cyber, geopolitical, third-party, physical, privacy, financial, and ESG risk.

What’s Next in GRC for Banking and Financial Services Industry

In the post-pandemic world, some companies fared better than others in adapting to the new business environment. So, what did they do differently?

Power What’s Next in GRC: Stay One Step Ahead of Risks

We’re all standing on the precipice of tremendous change. The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted how we work and accelerated the pace of digital transformation by a decade or more.

What’s Next for GRC? 8 Key Trends Powering 2022 and Beyond

We bring you the top 8 GRC trends of 2022 to help your organization prepare for the unknowns. Read more.

What is Integrated Risk Management and How to Build an IRM Framework?

Integrated Risk Management (IRM) includes all risk management procedures followed by an organization to improve its risk visibility and decision-making process in ways that help it not just survive, but thrive on risk.

How to Choose the Best Risk Assessment Methodology

Learn what is risk assessment, the types of risk assessment, and how to effectively choose the best risk assessment methodology based on the different factors.

Top 7 Risk Management Strategies with Examples

Discover why you need an effective risk management strategy along with 7 effective risk management strategies to help you effectively manage risk in the enterprise.

What is a Risk Management Framework and its Components

A risk management framework provides a set of guidelines, processes, policies, and tools to manage risks across the organization consistently. Discover its components.

How to Create a Successful Risk Management Plan?

A risk management plan outlines how a business will identify, assess, and handle potential risks. Discover how to create a successful risk management plan.

Essential Elements of a Successful Integrated Risk Management Program

The pandemic has highlighted the need to adopt an agile, integrated, and tech-driven approach to risk management. Explore the key elements of an effective IRM program…

The Three Dimensions of Risk

Today, there are more business risks than ever. These risks include globalization, cyber breaches, health crises like COVID-19 and climate change.

How Risk Professionals are Preparing for a New Normal

A robust risk management and control program is critical to ensure organizational resilience. Read more to explore the six key takeaways from “The State of Risk…

The Future of Integrated Risk Management

As markets and organizations grow more interconnected, so also do the associated risks.

Powering What’s Next with a Modern, Agile, and Integrated Approach to Risk

A crisis like COVID-19 changes everything. It creates uncertainty in markets, stretches healthcare systems, disrupts global supply chains, and unsettles work…

Integrated Risk Management in Financial Services Companies

The recent financial upheaval has intensified the concern and attention of companies on financial risk management, emphasizing the need for a strong risk framework to…

All You Need to Know About Testing Disaster Recovery Plans

93% of firms without a robust disaster recovery plan that endures a data breach incident had to shut down their operations within a year.93% of firms without a robust…

Developing an Incident Response Plan to Maintain Business Continuity

When revenue, customer trust, and reputation is at stake, it is essential that a firm has the ability to recognize and respond to security incidents and events.

The Future State Integrated Risk Management: A Real-time Understanding of Risk Relationships

Explore the 9 key considerations for a forward-looking integrated risk management (IRM) framework that helps organizations bring together diverse risks and understand…

From Siloed to Integrated: Adopting a Future-Ready Risk Management Approach

Explore the current state of risk management programs at organizations and the associated challenges. Also, learn how they can prepare for an integrated approach to…

Enterprise Risk

What is Enterprise Risk Management?

Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) encompasses a range of strategies and processes designed to help organizations identify, comprehend, and effectively manage the various risks that can impact their operations, revenues, and growth opportunities.

Risk Taxonomy: A Guide to Organizing and Managing Risks Effectively

Discover how an ideal cybersecurity risk management process should look like, frameworks, and steps for building a strong cyber risk management to protect your organization.

A Comprehensive Guide to the COSO Framework: How to Achieve Compliance

This complete guide outlines what is COSO framework, it's advantages and limitations, & how to achieve COSO Compliance.

The Complete Guide To Strategic Risk Management

Discover what is strategic risk management and learn how to proactively identify & mitigate potential risks to your organization.

What is Risk Analysis? Examples, Types and Methods

Discover what risk analysis is and why it is important, along with the types of risk analysis methods that businesses can employ to ensure that risks are mitigated.

Navigating Enterprise Risk: Five Steps for a Successful Risk Management Process

Discover what is a risk management process and the five actionable steps you can take to successfully navigate enterprise risk management in your organization.

Implementing Enterprise Risk Management Program: A Step-by-Step Guide for Energy and Utilities Organizations

Read this eBook to learn about the key considerations for an effective enterprise risk management (ERM) program for the energy and utilities industry, the pivotal role played by technology, and more.

Qualitative or Quantitative Risk Assessment? A Practical Guide to Assessing Non-Financial Risks

This eBook discusses risk assessment methodologies, both qualitative and quantitative, how to quantify non-financial risks, the best approach, and more. Read to know…

What is Risk Management?

Risk management is the identification, assessment, mitigation, and monitoring of risks. The effective management of risk provides organizations with a methodological approach toward recognizing ways to identify, avoid, control, transfer, or accept risks while reducing exposure and potentially creating risk and resiliency advantages.

Biases in Risk Identification, Prioritization and Principles of Risk Evaluation

Explore the methods of identifying biases and evaluating risks for strategic prioritization that help in reducing the impact of unforeseeable events.

What is Regulatory Compliance?

Regulatory compliance is the process of complying with applicable laws, regulations, policies and procedures, standards, and the other rules issued by governments and regulatory bodies like FINRA, SEC, FDA, NERC, Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), etc.

A One-Stop Guide To Compliance Risks

Learn what is compliance risk, its types, examples and the best practices for organizations to identify & assess compliance risks efficiently.

5 Transformative Strategies For a Modern Compliance Function

Read to explore actionable strategies underpinned by connected, cognitive, cloud, and continuous capabilities that can make your compliance program more future-ready and resilient.

Playing by the Rules: All You Need to Know About Compliance Management Systems

Learn all you need to know about compliance management systems, its key elements, benefits and how to choose the best compliance management system in 2024.

Top 5 Compliance Priorities for CCOs in 2023

Learn the top 5 compliance priorities for Chief Compliance Officers (CCOs) this year.

Compliance Resilience Managing Compliance in Highly Regulated Industries

Explore essential steps for compliance agility and resilience in highly regulated sectors.

Why Compliance Matters in Both Good and Bad Times

Staying alert to compliance risks and regulatory changes needs an always-on approach.

A Holistic Approach to Compliance That Promotes a Culture of Trust and Integrity

A strong compliance function is critical to organizational success. Read more to discover key focus areas in building a strong compliance function.

What is Regulatory Change Management?

Learn all about instituting a regulatory change management framework and the best practices for regulatory change management.

Connecting Cyber, Business, and ESG Compliance. A European and UK Roadmap to Compliance and Regulation

A deep-dive guide providing exclusive insights into the current regulatory frameworks and cyber, ESG, and third-party regulations and compliance impacting businesses…

What’s Next in Compliance: 3 Ways to Supercharge Compliance in the New Normal

MetricStream surveyed compliance leaders across industries to understand the state of compliance programs. Here are the three best practices to strengthen your…

Ensuring Compliance with Germany’s Revised IDW PS 340 n.F. with MetricStream

Read more to understand Germany’s revised IDW 340 PS n. F. standard, the regulatory requirements under this new standard, and how MetricStream can help you…

How Strong is Your Compliance Program? 5 Strategies to Help You Avoid Compliance Fines

This eBook aims to provide compliance professionals with five actionable compliance management strategies that they can implement to avoid compliance failures and…

5 Best Practices for Successful Compliance Management

Compliance management is getting more challenging. Tackle the challenge with best practices for prioritizing and building an effective ethics and compliance program…

The Ultimate Guide to Cyber Risk Management

Discover how an ideal cybersecurity risk management process should look like, frameworks, & steps for building a strong cyber risk management to protect your organization.

A Complete Guide to IT Risk Management

Read this guide to learn about what is IT risk management, frameworks, why it is important, & how to set up an effective ITRM program within your organization

Top Cyber Risk Trends in 2024 and Beyond: Are You Prepared for What’s Next?

Read this to learn about the top cyber risk trends that organizations need to prepare for and key capabilities for cyber GRC solutions to make them future-ready.

What is CMMC?

Read this article to learn about the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), its scope, covered entities, key requirements, and how organizations can achieve compliance.

The Ultimate Guide to IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance (IT GRC)

Read this eBook for a deep dive into IT governance, risk, and compliance (IT GRC) - key elements, top challenges, best practices, benefits, and more.

Top 10 Cyber Risk Trends in 2023 and Beyond

As we head into 2023, what are the leading cyber risk trends that every cyber risk leader must know? Based on our interactions with customers, thought leaders, and our own market research, here are the top 10 cyber risk trends for 2023.

CyberGRC Buyer’s Guide

This guide is designed to help you understand what CyberGRC means, what kinds of solutions are out there to meet your risk management needs, and how to select one that works for you.

Demystifying Dora Understanding and Preparing for the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act

Read this eBook to learn about various aspects and requirements of the EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) and the key steps that can help you achieve compliance.

The Cyber Governance, Risk, and Compliance Journey: Understanding and Advancing Your Cyber GRC Maturity Levels

Read this eBook to learn about the Cyber GRC maturity journey, its different stages, and how technology can help you move forward on this journey.

5 Connections Every Cyber Risk Leader Must Make for Driving Cyber Resilience

Discover the 5 key connections that are essential for today’s CISO and cyber risk leaders.

7 Top Cyber Risk Strategies for Banking and Financial Services

Explore how banking organizations can future-proof their cyber risk management strategy.

Cyber Risk Management for Energy Companies

Explore effective strategies to address cyber risk in energy companies.

Simplify and Accelerate Your IT Compliance by Leveraging a Common Controls Framework

Take a closer look to cyber risk quantification including the benefits and best practices for your organization.

What is Cyber Risk Quantification?

Take a closer look to cyber risk quantification including the benefits and best practices for your organization.

Power What’s Next. Five Critical Capabilities for Effective Cyber Risk Management

This eBook discusses five critical capabilities that organizations need today to strengthen their cyber resilience and become future-ready.

Amp Up Your Cyber Risk Strategy: 3 Imperatives to Implement Now

Continuous Control Monitoring is a technology-based, iterative approach that enables organizations to detect anomalies that can go unnoticed with a traditional

What is Continuous Control Monitoring?

Continuous Control Monitoring is a technology-based, iterative approach that enables organizations to detect anomalies that can go unnoticed with a traditional

What is IT Vendor Risk Management?

What is IT vendor risk management and learn how your organization can manage and mitigate IT vendor risks and third-party cyber supply chain risks.

What is HIPAA Compliance?

Learn about HIPAA compliance, the entities covered under HIPAA, associated regulatory requirements, best practices for achieving compliance, and how MetricStream can…

What is IT & Cyber Compliance Management?

IT and cyber compliance management is the process of ensuring that an organization's information technology (IT) systems and data are compliant with all relevant laws…

Autonomous and Always On: Securing the Cloud with Continuous Control Monitoring

Read this eBook to understand why Continuous Control Monitoring is essential to improving your cloud security risk and compliance posture, steps to set up CCM in the cloud, and more.

4 Ways to Bolster Cyber Risk Management and Compliance

We surveyed key IT and cybersecurity executives across geographies & industries. Here are four best practices for organizations to strengthen cyber risk and…

The Ultimate Guide to Operational Risk Management

Learn why it is important for organizations and how to create a robust ORM framework to build organizational resilience.

Operational Risk Management in Banking

Explore the top five operational risks in banking and financial services institutions, emerging trends in ORM & learn how to manage operational risks by adopting best practices.

Risk Management in Banking

Today, risk management is the focal point of extreme regulatory examination and is central to senior management strategy building and decision-making.

Demystifying RCSA: 6 Critical Factors to Modernize Your Risk and Control Self-Assessment Program

Explore the critical factors that chief risk officers (CROs) must adopt to modernize their Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) program.

Revisiting the Challenge to Delivering a Status of Operational Resilience in Financial Markets Through an Integrated Risk Management Approach

An award-winning entertainment powerhouse, headquartered in Athens, is committed to leveraging the latest digital and technology capabilities to become a world-class…

Top 5 Operational Resilience Challenges in the Post-Pandemic Era

An award-winning entertainment powerhouse, headquartered in Athens, is committed to leveraging the latest digital and technology capabilities to become a world-class…

Operational Resilience in Banking

Operational resilience in financial institutions is an area of focus today with even Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) firms working towards achieving this.

Third-Party Risk

What is Third-Party Risk Management?

Understanding the third-party risk landscape and managing it must be a business priority. Read to know more.

Boosting Third-Party Risk Management in a Time of Uncertainty

Just about everything we do today has some level of third-party involvement whether we’re aware of it or not.

Mastercard Builds a Safer Payments Ecosystem with a Fourth-Party Risk Monitoring Program

As one of the world’s largest payments technology providers, with links to issuing and acquiring banks, merchants, service providers, and other entities across..

Survey Management User Guide

Gain an in depth overview of the navigation, most common features, and reference guidelines of the MetricStream Survey Management product.

Business API Framework User Guide

Discover a simple, yet powerful manner to integrate your systems and exchange data over HTTP using MetricStream's Business API Framework.

MetricStream Configuration

Watch the video demonstration and learn how to configure the MetricStream dashboard to suit your organization’s requirements.

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BitSight Integration User Guide

Leverage the risk intelligence from BitSight integration with MetricStream's Third-Party Risk Management to monitor real-time incident alerts.

SAP Integration User Guide

Learn about MetricStream's Third-Party Risk Management integration with SAP for Spend Data Integration, Supplier Integration, and more.

Third-Party Risk Management User Guide

Gain a complete overview of MetricStream's Third-Party Risk Management, the significant features, and reference guidelines for using the product.

What is ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance)?

ESG stands for Environmental, Social, and Governance. ESG seeks to encourage more socially responsible behavior in businesses, boardrooms, and investor communities.

Why Aligning ESG, ERM, and Third-party Risk Management is Key to Creating Value

Learn why it’s vital for your organization to connect the dots between ESG, ERM, and TPRM.

Fast-track Your Progress To Net Zero with ESG

Discover how ESG technology can fast-track your organization’s progress to net zero.

ESG Buyer’s Guide

Learn how to choose a software that aligns to your organization’s ESG goals and aspirations.

Power What’s Next in GRC by Establishing ESG Metrics

Read how ESG is defining future business strategy, calling for greater ESG risk integration, and rewiring business growth.

Building an Enterprise ESG Program? Here’s How Technology Can Help You Succeed

Around the world, companies are being held accountable for their environmental and social impact. Investors, employees, customers, and regulators want to know that

ESG and ERM: Bridging the Gap

Explore why organizations need to align Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) risks with Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) processes and how they can capitalize…

Internal Audit

What is Internal Audit Management?

What is internal audit management? Learn all about how to effectively conduct an internal audit and the best practices to streamline internal audit processes.

Getting Started with UK SOX Compliance: The First Steps

Here is a practical guide for organizations as they embark on the journey to prepare for UK SOX.

Multinational Bank Optimizes Audit Productivity with an Agile, Future-Ready Audit Program

Managing an internal audit (IA) function in a highly regulated sector such as banking and financial services can be daunting.

Strengthen Internal Audit’s Strategic Advisory Role to Accelerate Business Performance

A strong compliance function is critical to organizational success. Read to discover key focus areas in building a strong compliance function.

Navigating New Terrain: Internal Auditing in a COVID-19 Era

Read more to delve deeper into the findings of the MetricStream Internal Audit Survey Report 2021 which provides a glimpse into how internal auditors can

What is SOX Compliance Management?

Learn all about effective SOX compliance management and the best practices on how to comply with SOX guidelines in 2023.

The Ultimate Guide to Operational Risk Management

Learn why it is important for organizations and how to create a robust ORM framework to build organizational resilience.

Operational Risk Management in Banking

Explore the top five operational risks in banking and financial services institutions, emerging trends in ORM & learn how to manage operational risks by adopting best practices.

Risk Management in Banking

Today, risk management is the focal point of extreme regulatory examination and is central to senior management strategy building and decision-making.

Demystifying RCSA: 6 Critical Factors to Modernize Your Risk and Control Self-Assessment Program

Explore the critical factors that chief risk officers (CROs) must adopt to modernize their Risk and Control Self-Assessment (RCSA) program.

Revisiting the Challenge to Delivering a Status of Operational Resilience in Financial Markets Through an Integrated Risk Management Approach

An award-winning entertainment powerhouse, headquartered in Athens, is committed to leveraging the latest digital and technology capabilities to become a world-class…

Top 5 Operational Resilience Challenges in the Post-Pandemic Era

An award-winning entertainment powerhouse, headquartered in Athens, is committed to leveraging the latest digital and technology capabilities to become a world-class…

Operational Resilience in Banking

Operational resilience in financial institutions is an area of focus today with even Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) firms working towards achieving this.

5 Actionable Steps To Build Operational Resilience. A Practical Guide To Embedding Resilience Strategies

Managing an internal audit (IA) function in a highly regulated sector such as banking and financial services can be daunting.