As data sources proliferate and regulators expect companies to screen relevant risk areas, business leaders are leaning on artificial intelligence technology to help lighten the load. That's for good reason: AI can supercharge the compliance pr...

As Russia looks set to ramp up its cyberattacks in the United States, companies and its founders should be asking themselves: Do we have adequate cybersecurity insurance? Do we even have cybersecurity insurance? The answer to both should be yes.<...

The cyberattack on Kronos is a portent of things to come.

First, criminals broke into the timecard management company's network. Then they shut down employee payroll systems at thousands of its customers. Months after the initial br...

Our wastewater can signal when a community is sick, sad, or polluting. It also offers important signs for when life is getting better.

Just about everything ends up at a sewage facility before being cleansed and discharged into a loca...

Compliance professionals are increasingly weighed down by limited resources, competing demands, and urgent orders from company leaders to fight new fires.

As we head into 2022, these pressures on compliance teams are only set to grow,...

COVID-19 unleashed the worst public health crisis of our lifetimes, but it also revealed some of our strongest heroes and assets.

Much-deserved praise has gone to healthcare workers, vaccine scientists, and the supply chain employees...

Over the last few years, U.S. authorities and their foreign counterparts are expecting companies to make sure ESG standards are observed.

In preparing for such scrutiny, companies must look beyond their internal operations to their su...

Young Americans are emerging from the pandemic with a new view of work. A job is no longer just a paycheck. It's a chance to do something meaningful, to make an impact on society while also making a living.

As many engineers search...

Water utilities have become America's unexpected source of front-page news, enduring multiple 'once-in-a-century' events in recent years. Droughts, pollution, unprecedented cold, flooding, and storms all take their toll on our infrastructur...

he spread of Covid-19's Delta variant threw return-to-office plans into disarray, again. Offices tore up their re-entry plans, and some decided to make remote work arrangements permanent.

By 2025, 36.2 million Americans will be workin...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning have revolutionized our lives, but some sectors have been slower to adopt smart solutions than others. Despite AI systems underpinning everything from power grid regulation to Google's search to...

On initial review, Microsoft's Recall rollout was stunningly boneheaded from a privacy perspective, bu...

The Denver Department of Public Health and Environment's decision last week to close Sloan's Lake to recreation and fishing because of blue-green algae bloom brought into stark focus the dangers of fertilizers and other chemical pollutants en...

Set in a desert, surrounded by hostile neighbors, and home to a literal Dead Sea, Israel faces one of the most precarious water situations in the world. But because the natural resource is so scarce, Israel has learned to make the most of every d...

Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth. It's a nugget of wisdom (courtesy of heavyweight boxing great Mike Tyson) that companies would do well to heed when it comes to international compliance risks.

While many larg...

Let's face it: The private sector isn't getting the job done when it comes to cybersecurity. How many more Colonial Pipeline- and JBS-type incidents really need to occur to drive that point home?

The crescendo is building for a na...

Leaks of customer data, corrupt practices by foreign agents, IT breaches. These are just some of the biggest risks that companies face with their third-party relationships. Despite the known dangers, few get it right when it comes to budgeting fo...

Headlines for President Biden's $2 trillion infrastructure bill are mainly about roads and bridges, but the most pressing public health need is buried underground and out of sight.

America's network of drinking water plants, wast...

Right now, the people in charge of very important pieces of our national infrastructure are bearing an uncomfortable resemblance to a room full of preschoolers wandering around with sharp, pointy scissors.

The SolarWinds breach earli...

General counsels have evolved to become far more than just corporate lawyers. They are now a core part of executive teams, expected to show expertise in a range of financial and business areas, plus oversee legal and compliance matters. And thatâ...