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• Kansas City, Kansas City Here I Come...

  by Steve Schlarman, September 10, 2009 During my high school and college years, I had the wonderful experience of playing bass for an honest to goodness big band―5 saxes, 4 trumpets, 4 'bones and a full rhythm section. For a seventeen year old kid... Posted Sep 10 2009, 05:03 PM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer Events, Archer Experts, Archer News, Archer Solutions, Best Practices, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, Governance, Industry News, News, Steve Schlarman, User Group Summits

• Introducing Jason Rohlf, Finance GRC Product Manager

  September 9, 2009 Greetings, loyal Archer Blog readers! My name is Jason Rohlf, and I am honored to submit my first post to the Archer Blog, which is one of the many responsibilities I have assumed as the new Finance GRC Product Manager for Archer Technologies... Posted Sep 09 2009, 08:00 AM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Archer Experts, Archer News, Archer Solutions, Compliance, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, GRC, Industry News, News

• Announcing the First 3-in-1 Solution for Business Continuity Management

  August 25, 2009 The Archer team is excited to announce the launch of our advanced Business Continuity Management (BCM) solution , which combines business continuity, disaster recovery and crisis management functions into a single product offering. As... Posted Aug 25 2009, 09:32 AM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer News, Archer Solutions, Business Continuity Management, Disaster Recovery, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, Governance, GRC, Industry News, News, Product Release, Webcast, Working Groups

• Risk Register: Separating Colds from Pandemics

  by Steve Schlarman – August 24, 2009 What is the difference between individual findings from control assessments and a company’s Risk Register? In other words, a control gap identified as part of a risk or compliance assessment (a finding) represents... Posted Aug 24 2009, 08:46 AM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer Experts, Archer News, Best Practices, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, News, Risk Management, Steve Schlarman

• PCI Compliance Webcast with Accenture

  Webcast to showcase PCI Compliance Readiness solution built on Archer’s GRC platform, the Archer SmartSuite Framework Register today to join Archer and Accenture for an expert webcast on Thursday, August 13, 2009. Learn how to centrally manage, coordinate... Posted Aug 11 2009, 08:36 AM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer Events, Archer Experts, Archer News, Archer SmartSuite Framework, Best Practices, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, GRC, Industry News, News, Risk, Risk Management, Webcast

• Qualys and Archer Partner to Deliver Comprehensive Vulnerability and Compliance Data

  Archer is pleased to announce our partnership with Qualys®, Inc. , a provider of on-demand IT security risk and compliance management solutions. The integration of QualysGuard® with Archer’s GRC platform—the Archer SmartSuite Framework—enables our clients... Posted Aug 10 2009, 10:31 AM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer Exchange, Archer News, Archer SmartSuite Framework, Archer Solutions, Data Feed Manager, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, Industry News, News, Threat Management

• Building a Converged IT-GRC Program

  by Jeff Glasco – July 22, 2009 Monday, July 21, marked the 40th anniversary of man’s first step onto the Moon and precipitated Neil Armstrong’s famous quote: “one small step for man, one giant leap for ISACA.” Well, maybe that’s not exactly right, and... Posted Jul 22 2009, 11:14 AM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer Events, Archer Experts, Archer News, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, Governance, News

• Risk and Regulatory Intelligence: An Interview with Archer’s Steve Schlarman

  Dashboard Insight recently featured an interview with Archer’s IT-GRC Product Manager, Steve Schlarman. The discussion focused on risk and regulatory intelligence, GRC best practices in the face of a troubled economy, and product developments from Archer... Posted Jul 10 2009, 11:01 AM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer Experts, Archer News, Archer Solutions, Best Practices, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, GRC, Industry News, News

• GRC Maturity Assessment: Where Does Your Program Stand?

  by David Walter – June 26, 2009 In working with many Fortune 500 companies, I find that every organization is dedicating resources to formalizing a Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) program. However, each company is going about this process in different... Posted Jun 26 2009, 10:23 AM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer Experts, Archer News, Archer Solutions, Best Practices, David Walter, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, Governance, GRC, News

• Podcast: Platforms Trump Point Products

  by David Walter – June 23,2009 I recently had an opportunity to speak with Carl Weinschenk of the IT-Finance Connection about the need to minimize reliance on disparate point solutions and focus budget dollars on flexible platform technologies for governance... Posted Jun 23 2009, 03:21 PM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer Events, Archer News, Archer SmartSuite Framework, Best Practices, David Walter, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, Industry News, News

• The President’s GRC Plan

  by Steve Schlarman – June 22, 2009 President Obama’s strategy for restructuring financial regulation was revealed mid last week. It was interesting to see how the government planned to address the many facets of the financial crisis that has plagued both... Posted Jun 22 2009, 05:18 PM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer Experts, Archer News, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, Governance, GRC, Industry News, News, Steve Schlarman

• Q&A with Application Security, Inc.

  Dashboard Insight recently featured an interview with Thom VanHorn, Vice President of Global Marketing for Application Security, Inc. , a database security, risk and compliance solutions provider. The article focuses on the benefits of GRC software solutions... Posted May 28 2009, 11:44 AM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer Events, Archer Exchange, Archer News, Best Practices, Data Feed Manager, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, Industry News, News, Webcast

• Using Risk and Compliance Management to Support Cost-Cutting Initiatives

  by Steve Schlarman – May 21, 2009 Every day as we catch up on the latest news, we are reminded from many perspectives about the growing uncertainty and challenges of today’s economic crisis. Whether the news is discussing home foreclosures, layoffs or... Posted May 21 2009, 02:18 PM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer Experts, Archer News, Best Practices, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, Governance, GRC, News, Steve Schlarman

• Archer CEO Jon Darbyshire to Present at INTEROP

  Jon Darbyshire, Archer president and CEO, will be presenting at the INTEROP Conference in Las Vegas on Tuesday, May 19. This event brings together IT professionals to discuss how the recent surge of IT innovation can help businesses cut costs, get closer... Posted May 19 2009, 09:40 AM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with no comments Filed under: Archer Events, Archer Experts, Archer News, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, Governance, GRC, Industry News, News

• GRC Combat: Chief Theoretical Officer (CTO) vs. Chief Reality Officer (CRO)

  by Steve Schlarman – May 8, 2009 Now here is an epic battle worthy of a cult 70’s Godzilla vs. Mothra type of movie: two titans of the GRC world locked in mortal combat to the death. I am not talking about the Chief Technical Officer vs. the Chief Risk... Posted May 08 2009, 01:50 PM by Sarah Nord (Historical) with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Archer Experts, Archer News, Best Practices, Enterprise Risk and Compliance Management, Governance, GRC, Industry News, News, Steve Schlarman