Treasury / Cash / Risk Management

Learn why now is the right time for your finance team to upgrade its “Last Mile,” and how IBM and Deloitte can help you in the process.

The Solvency II Directive is changing forever the way insurers conduct business.

Slated to be implemented next year and take effect in 2014, Solvency II is a comprehensive regulatory framework aimed at protecting consumers by promising that insurance companies maintain sufficient funds to meet all claims.

Perhaps the most pivotal part of complying with this initiative is defining the requirements for governance, risk management and supervision, something many agencies are struggling to do.

This brief paper outlines how Unum, a specialist in financial protection insurance in the United States and the United Kingdom, implemented an operational risk management solution to assess and manage risk and controls, capture data on risky events and provide detailed reporting and analysis, completed in 11 months and within budget.

Read this now and learn how Unum selected between four different options before settling on its chosen solution, and also gain insight into the many benefits of employing such a system, including:

• Compliance with Solvency II standards
• Reducing the time spent on collecting data for reporting and analysis
• Aligning day-to-day risk management practices with ease
• Ultimately minimizing avoidable losses through improved visibility of risk across the entire organization
• And much more

Cloud Computing is easy to deploy, flexible and cost-effective.  As federal agencies continue to outsource data management and operations to third-party cloud providers, their ability to ensure data integrity and privacy is becoming a potential security risk. Read this white paper, “IBM Point of View: Security and Cloud Computing”, to learn how you can manage Cloud Computing safely and efficiently.

Our economy, federal government and society increasingly relies on digital infrastructures to function, making cyber threats a very real concern. Read this IBM white paper and see how a public health and safety cyber model can offer more national security than a standard IT version.

The cyber infrastructures of governments are becoming more complex—and therefore more vulnerable to attacks.  IBM’s security framework enables agencies to take a holistic approach to cyber protection.  Read this white paper, “IBM solutions for cybersecurity” and see how you can best apply a multitiered containment strategy to protect the systems and people of the United States.

Many threats to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of critical data on federal government networks can be traced to a lack of compliance. Read this white paper and find out how IBM’s expertise can help you build a robust IT security solution governance program that detects, protects and manages vulnerabilities within your federal IT infrastructure.

With data being the new world currency, and the cost of maintaining and protecting that data running higher than the cost to capture it in the first place – data risk management is assuming a new importance among IT executives – or at least it should be. 

Check out this webcast as it discusses the advantages of implementing a holistic approach to data risk management, and provides both the “why” and “how” to begin putting a holistic data risk management program to work in businesses of all sizes. 

The presentation also discusses the IBM Security Framework - a combination of modeling and methodology that is optimized to allow organizations to understand core business processes, the threats and vulnerabilities associated with the processes and the ability to act upon those threats.

Register now for this webcast  to learn more about why your business should be considering data risk management now.               

With shrinking budgets, organizations are trying to do more with less, such as adopting a consolidated server strategy for faster functionality with fewer physical resources. But doing so may leave gaps in security, reliability and availability. Read this white paper to see how IBM security solutions can help you address challenges with virtualization, while safeguarding your agency.

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how information classification can be used to enhance security within a Collaboration Oriented Architecture. While there has been a great deal of work done on information classification, this has tended to be bespoke to any and every organization that has used it. Furthermore, classification has traditionally only been used on a very small percentage of information assets. In the new de-perimeterised world this is no longer a realistic option

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate how endpoint security status can be used to enable access within a Collaboration Oriented Architecture. There is no intent to duplicate the work by the trusted computing group and it is expected that implementation of solutions suggested by this paper will rely on much of this work.

The Jericho Forum’s Collaboration Oriented Architectures (COA) enable enterprises that build COAcompliant architectures to operate in a secure and reliable manner in an environment of increasing information threat, and where it is the growing norm to interact without boundaries, irrespective of the location of the data or the number of collaborating parties.

Back in the time when businesses were predominantly “local” and to a large extent insulated from each others operations, it really didn’t matter very much how we defined the Business Impact of Information Risks, for we knew what we meant in each business and we didn’t have much need to share that meaning with others.  Collaboration and the business need for it back then was not a significant imperative for most businesses in a global or even national context, and certainly was not a requirement at the frequency and set-up speed that collaborations are demanded today. Today, parties in a collaboration need more clarity over the controls that apply in their relationship.  With the increased importance of collaboration, it is becoming more important to be able to share the implications of a risk in terms of the potential business impact.  We need to do so in a manner that is universally understood.  This paper recognises that there is no such commonly agreed scale available to communicate with sufficient granularity the impact of information risk on businesses