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Compliance Solutions for the Technology Industry
Benefit from an integrated approach to managing corporate compliance, ethics, and third-party risk – trusted by leading technology companies worldwide. With less effort and more reach, you finally get a better way to do your good work.
Why leading technology firms rely on GAN Integrity
GAN Integrity is how compliance teams at technology firms get the tools and expertise to stay ahead of risk. With less effort and more reach, you finally get a better way to do your good work. With less effort and more reach, you finally get a better way to do your good work.
See everything – Gain a comprehensive view of overall risk and compliance in one centralized platform for more effective program management.
Adapt to anything – Leverage dynamic workflows and integrations to stay ahead of regulatory changes and evolving program requirements, all without heavy lifting or expense.
Get all the help you need – Receive dedicated support from GAN Integrity’s team of experts.
Compliance challenges for the technology industry
As a compliance professional in the technology industry, it can feel like you’re facing an unfair fight. You’re tasked with navigating a complex web of regulations from agencies like the FTC and ENISA, and laws such as GDPR and CCPA. Key focus areas include data privacy, cybersecurity, and sustainability.
Technology organizations must ensure the security and privacy of user data, adhere to stringent international regulations, manage intellectual property rights, and address the ethical implications of AI and machine learning. Additionally, the focus on sustainability makes it crucial to manage the lifecycle of products from design to disposal.
You also need to build a strong ethical culture and act with integrity in all business dealings. This involves implementing robust compliance policies and training programs, managing conflicts of interest and gifts and entertainment disclosures, ensuring third parties meet your ethical standards, and continuously monitoring changes in their risk profiles.
Key areas of compliance in technology companies
Technology companies are complex enterprises. There’s many areas of compliance, ethics, and risk that need to be managed, spanning everything from Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), to Cybersecurity to Anti-Bribery And Corruption (ABAC). These include:
- ABAC Compliance: Upholding anti-bribery and anti-corruption (ABAC) laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and the UK Bribery Act.
- Data Protection: Safeguarding sensitive information and ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations including GDPR and CCPA.
- Cybersecurity: Implementing robust cybersecurity measures to protect against data breaches and cyber-attacks.
- Ethical AI Practices: Ensuring ethical considerations in the development and deployment of artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.
- Intellectual Property: Protecting intellectual property rights, including patents, trademarks, and copyrights.
- Sustainability: Implementing sustainable practices in sourcing, production, and distribution and adhering to environmental regulations.
- Third-Party Risk Management: Ensuring that third parties, suppliers, and partners comply with relevant laws and standards.
- Financial Reporting: Maintaining accuracy and transparency in financial dealings.
- Conflict of Interest Management: Ensuring potential conflicts are disclosed and managed to uphold ethical standards.
- Training: Educating employees about compliance requirements and ethical conduct.
Steps to achieving compliance in the technology industry
Achieving compliance in any organization involves a series of strategic steps:
Compliance in the Technology Industry
Risk Assessment
Identify potential compliance risks specific to your technology operations.
Objective Setting
Define clear compliance goals that align with your operational objectives.
Documentation
Maintain thorough records of compliance efforts and decisions.
Training
Educate employees about compliance requirements tailored to the technology industry.
Monitoring and Auditing
Regularly review compliance status and adjust practices as needed.
Reporting System
Establish clear channels for reporting issues and disclosures.
Issue Response
Quickly address non-compliance issues to prevent disruptions.
Continuous Improvement
Regularly update compliance practices to stay ahead of regulatory changes.
GAN Integrity for Technology Companies
GAN Integrity helps technology companies navigate these challenges with a unified, easy-to-use compliance platform that organizes requirements, automates tasks, and provides powerful reporting, making it easier for you to do your good work. With GAN Integrity, compliance teams can see everything, adapt to anything, and get all the help they need.
ABAC Program Management
Ensure your organization upholds ethical integrity and ABAC compliance through comprehensive risk assessments, effective policy management, and continuous monitoring. Capabilities include:
- Third-party due diligence: Mitigate bribery and corruption risks with integrated questionnaires, sanctions checks, and risk intelligence data.
- Disclosure management: Consolidate and assess conflicts of interest, gifts, travel, entertainment, and political and charitable contribution disclosures.
- Reporting and documentation: Maintain a complete audit trail and detailed reporting to easily demonstrate compliance to stakeholders and regulators.
Third-Party Risk Management
Manage risks associated with third parties and assess these against relevant laws and organizational standards. Capabilities include:
- Lifecycle management: Automated workflows for onboarding, risk assessment, issue management, monitoring and off-boarding.
- Integrated due diligence: Initial and ongoing screening of third parties for sanctions, adverse media, forced labor, ESG and more.
- Reporting and analytics: Executive dashboards and reports: Consolidate third party data to identify risks and potential exposure to your organization.
Disclosure Management
Consolidate your disclosures for conflicts of interest, gifts, travel, entertainment, and political and charitable donations or contributions.Capabilities include:
- Policy management: Develop and enforce comprehensive disclosure policies. Educate and engage your workforce with targeted training and policy attestations.
- Flexible disclosure process: Simplify the submission of potential conflicts of interest with user-friendly forms, ensuring easy access for employees.
- Automated approvals and reviews: Enhance compliance with automated approval and review workflows. Quickly escalate notifications to relevant stakeholders to address potential risks.
Policy Management
Manage approvals, distribution, and attestation of policies, along with centralized portals for easy access to the latest policies and procedures.Capabilities include:
- Regulatory change management: Identify policies that require updates and timely distribution to employees in response to regulatory changes.
- Automated workflow: Optimize the review and approval process for policies, operating procedures, and work instructions with automated workflows.
- Comprehensive reporting and documentation: Maintain a full audit trail and generate detailed reports to provide clear evidence of compliance to stakeholders and regulators.
Reporting and Documentation
See everything across your compliance program, and generate reports and dashboards to demonstrate compliance program effectiveness to stakeholders and evidence to regulators. Capabilities include:
- Reporting and analytics: Executive, role-based dashboards to review the effectiveness of your compliance program initiatives.
- Evidence-based compliance: Maintain an auditable trail of all activity with the platform’s integrated and automated audit log.
- Compliance insights: See risk trends and patterns within your program, including third-party and supply chain risk, policies and disclosures.