IT, Privacy and Security
COVID-19 and electronic contracting
For years, organizations have moved their businesses digital. To consummate transactions and to otherwise engage in contractual activities, organizations have increasingly relied on electronic means of contracting using everything from webwraps and clickwraps (and hybrid variations of these forms of agreements) and electronic documents executed using electronic signatures.
Everybody should be familiar with this
Scenario analysis is a method for creating responses to various future events with the aim of reducing uncertainty and maximizing the chances of achieving a desired outcome.
Cyber insurance in the COVID-19 landscape
Cyber insurance provides protection and coverage for the security and privacy of digital information and losses resulting from data breaches.
Fiscal year ends, business continuity, and COVID-19
At the best of times, fiscal year ends are challenging. Organizations with upcoming or recent fiscal year ends will undoubtedly find them particularly challenging. Organizations with robust policies and procedures will likely fare better than those without. Consequently, it will be helpful to start your year end planning as early as you can.
COVID-19: Managing material contracts in crisis
Whether engaging external help or undertaking the process in-house, the checklist below can help organizations prioritize their contractual relationships and identify practical steps to manage material contracts through this current crisis.
Risk-based cyber risk reporting
I encourage you to subscribe (free) to McKinsey’s frequent reports. Their latest, Enhanced cyberrisk reporting: Opening doors to risk-based cybersecurity has some good observations. Unfortunately, their ideas for addressing the problem don’t work for me.
Additional amendments to Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act Regulations issued
On February 15, 2020, draft amending regulations (the “Draft Regulations”) were issued, proposing a number of amendments to be made to the prior amendments to the regulations (the “Regulations”) under the Proceeds of Crime (Money Laundering) and Terrorist Financing Act (the “PCMLTFA”). The Draft Regulations are open for comment until March 15, 2020 and will come into force on the day they are registered.
COVID-19: key issues every organization should consider
The COVID-19 pandemic raises critical and unprecedented issues for all organizations. How an enterprise responds to these challenges will influence how it fares through the crisis and its positioning for recovery afterwards. We believe that the issues below warrant special attention by senior management and directors.
New ERM Guidance from COSO
Creating and Protecting Value: Understanding and Implementing Enterprise Risk Management is based on COSO’s 2017 update of its 2004 ERM Framework. Their intent is to explain how effective ERM can add value to an organization, and to give some guidance on how to implement or upgrade it.
COVID-19 Considerations from our bankruptcy & restructuring experts
Because of the speed with which the recent adverse circumstances have developed, businesses that may have otherwise been able to adapt may not have had an opportunity to do any meaningful contingency planning.
COVID-19 – Managing privacy and cyber issues
Privacy laws require that personal information is at all times protected by appropriate security safeguards, and this requirement will continue to apply in connection with COVID-19 work-from-home arrangements
Liability for artificial intelligence — Why Canadian businesses should pay attention to recent developments in Europe
Late last year, the European Commission’s Expert Group on Liability and New Technologies – New Technologies Formation (NTF) released a report on Liability for Artificial Intelligence. The report focuses on liability regimes across European Union (EU) member states and offers high-level recommendations on how those liability regimes can be adapted to meet challenges posed by artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital technologies.
COVID-19: Insurance considerations for business disruptions in Canada
One key consideration for businesses when facing potential losses as a result of COVID-19 is the availability of insurance coverage for business interruption and related losses.
Let’s meet – just not in person: Taking your annual shareholder meeting online (in a coronavirus world)
Increased concerns regarding the spread of the coronavirus are prompting companies to look at alternatives to their in-person annual meeting of shareholders, including holding the meeting partly or even wholly online with streamed audio and/or video content. This could potentially accelerate a recent trend in Canada towards considering alternatives to the traditional in-person shareholder meeting, […]
Which comes first, risk or control?
Can you assess the overall system of internal controls without considering risk management? I don’t think so, and neither does COSO. That is why there is a risk component in their internal control framework.
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