Arkansas (AR) Corporate Governance CLE Course Catalog

Evaluating the success of your corporate compliance program can be challenging. Far too many businesses simply determine the success of these efforts by monitoring their anonymous reporting tools, but tracking these reports isn’t enough. This session will delve into building out a robust compliance program, from standards, policies and procedures, to investigations and remedial measures. This session will provide you the tools you need for an effective and efficient program.

All it takes is one employee clicking on the wrong link in an email, and the hundreds of thousands of dollars you spend on your security infrastructure are useless. So to sit back and rely on your IT department with the expectation that nothing will ever go wrong is a risky proposition. Issues related to data privacy and cybersecurity are not limited to large organizations. In fact, depending on what reports you read, anywhere from 40% to 60% of cyber-attacks specifically target small to medium-sized businesses, and upwards of 70% of small businesses have experienced some form of cyberattack in the last year. The smaller the business, the fewer the resources it will typically have to spend on cybersecurity. If you think a good cybersecurity plan and infrastructure is too expensive, wait until you find out how much it costs not to have one.