User-developed applications pose compliance challenges

We've noted before that the GRC movement, fairly or not, often relies on spreadsheets in their marketing. According to a lot of firms, the world is stuck on "siloed"  processes that require "manual spreadsheet" processes to perform sensitive tasks. So there has been no shortage of products aiming to secure spreadsheets internally. But spreadsheets are pretty much indispensible. Even automated process will likely output information to a spreadsheet for further analysis by an employee.

This of course presents some risks to the organization. Read more...

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