Leveraging compliance practices with business practices for greater efficiency/effectiveness, creating and maintaining an ethical culture, and more effective internal investigations round out top 5 hot issues

February 22, 2016---Minneapolis, Minn.--- Cybersecurity and cybercrime tops the list of compliance and ethics professionals’ hot topics, according to a survey conducted during January 2016 by the  Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics (SCCE)  and Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA). Rounding out the top five issues are social media compliance risks, leveraging compliance practices with business practices to be more effective and efficient, creating/maintaining an ethical culture, and more effective internal investigations according to “Compliance and Ethics Hot Topics for 2016” report. 

“Compliance is spanning the spectrum from culture to cybercrime,” said SCCE and HCCA CEO Roy Snell.  “That’s an enormous mandate and really talks to how much businesses have come to rely on compliance programs to ensure that their organizations operate properly.”

The ranking of hot topics shifted when the survey was broken down by respondent types. Survey respondents from multinational, publicly traded, and large companies each listed third-party risk as number one, respondents from government employers ranked creating/maintaining an ethical culture number one, while health care companies listed social media compliance risk as number one.

About SCCE and HCCA

The Society of Corporate Compliance and Ethics and the Health Care Compliance Association are non-profit associations headquartered in Minneapolis, Minn. USA. Together SCCE and HCCA serve more than 16,000 compliance and ethics professionals globally. The two associations offer more than 80 meetings a year, and each publishes a monthly magazine for its members.  In addition to programs throughout the U.S., programs are offered in 2016 in Brussels, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Madrid, and Prague in order to meet the educational needs of the global compliance and ethics community.

Visit the SCCE website at www.corporatecompliance.org.

Visit HCCA’s website at www.hcca-info.org.