Risk management and regulatory compliance

Adobe solutions

Adobe, together with leading security partners, simplifies the complexities of risk management and regulatory compliance with solutions incorporating document control and digital signatures.

With an Adobe enabled regulatory compliance and risk management strategy in place, you can adjust access rights or revoke them even after distributing a document. Use audit capabilities to track the activities of each document recipient and to trigger alerts if a document hasn’t been viewed or acted upon. Even certify documents, and easily integrate the use of digital signatures.

As a result, your organization will be better able to:

• Safeguard the privacy of personal information
• Meet corporate governance regulations for secure and auditable electronic information sharing
• Enhance protection of intellectual property
• Leverage electronic-based processes to reduce cycle time and cut costs

With Adobe regulatory compliance and risk management solutions, security capabilities stay with your documents so you can extend the reach of your enterprise — safely and simply.

The cost of identity theft and corporate fraud

Privacy and corporate governance regulations have developed worldwide in response to costly concerns. Here are just two:

• During 2003, in the United States alone, identity theft cost businesses and financial institutions US$47.6 billion. Consumer victims paid US$5 billion out of pocket.
• From 1999 through 2002, a wave of accounting fraud and corporate governance issues involving large public companies cost investors hundreds of billions of dollars and caused tens of thousands of employees to lose their jobs.

Christine Dugas,"Federal survey: Identity theft hits 1 in 4 U.S. households," USA Today, September 4, 2003.