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• Yammer

  Yammer is a private microblogging and collaboration platform for enterprise social networking. Unlike public social media platforms such as Twitter,Yammer only allows members to connect with other members who belong to the same email domain. Continue Reading

• Millennials 101: Test yourself with our generational diversity quiz

  As the Millennial generation enters the workforce, CIOs are balancing a lot of generational diversity. Test your knowledge about managing Millennials. Continue Reading

• FAQ: Four criteria for an effective IT innovation strategy

  In this FAQ, IT executives share four ways to kick-start and manage an IT innovation strategy that drives business value and transformation. Continue Reading

• Test your social media risk management IQ: A SearchCompliance.com quiz

  Proliferating social networks have cast a spotlight on social media risk management. Take our quiz to find out if you are up to speed on social media. Continue Reading

• control framework

  A control framework is a data structure that organizes and categorizes an organization’s internal controls, which are practices and procedures established to create business value and minimize risk. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • What is third-party risk management (TPRM)?
  • What is scenario analysis?
  • What is risk acceptance?
  • What is fourth-party risk management (FPRM)?

  • What is a compliance framework?
  • What is a risk manager? Roles and responsibilities
  • What is crowdsourcing?
  • What is compliance risk?

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• 99.999 (Five nines or Five 9s)

  In computers, 99.999 (often called "five 9s") refers to a desired percentage of availability of a given computer system.Continue Reading

• Cloud computing service quiz for enterprise CIOs

  Is your organization ready to ramp up its cloud computing service offerings? Read these recent stories and take our quiz to assess your cloud computing readiness.Continue Reading

• FAQ: GARP and how it helps you achieve better information governance

  Many organizations do not have an information governance structure that works with defined record-keeping principles that ensures accountability. GARP may be your answer.Continue Reading

• IT in 2010: Keeping up with the latest IT management trends

  Running IT in 2010 requires CIOs to consider ITSM methodologies, vendor contract renegotiations and investments in new technologies. Have you kept up with IT management trends?Continue Reading

• spoliation

  Spoliation is the destruction, alteration, or mutilation of evidence that may pertain to legal action. (Continued)Continue Reading

• Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)

  The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is a United States federal statute that prohibits a third party from intercepting or disclosing communications without authorization.Continue Reading

• Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA)

  The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is United States federal legislation that promotes accuracy, fairness and privacy for data used by consumer reporting agencies.Continue Reading

• CKO (chief knowledge officer)

  Chief knowledge officer (CKO) is a corporate title for the person responsible overseeing knowledge management within an organization.Continue Reading

• FFIEC compliance (Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council)

  FFIEC compliance is conformance to a set of standards for online banking issued in October 2005 by the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)... (Continued)Continue Reading