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Since our new release at the beginning of October we’ve been working hard on getting the features you requested done. Two of the most asked for features we are happy to announce are now live.

Thanks to a successful launch and well developed program, we now have eight Continuous Compliance clients and several more pending approval from Audit Committees. When I am explaining our new service to clients and their committees I hear the same questions regularly….

Dual authentication (Multi-Factor Authentication) are increased authentication measures required by the FFIEC that will require Internet banking users to log-in with multiple factors, instead of just a user ID and password. Dual authentication for online banking is required even if it isn’t 100% secure yet.

TGG has discussed the Avian Flu on several previous blogs. This is the third article in a series of ideas to consider when planning a Business Continuity Plan that includes the Avian Flu.

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I recently did a post for CUES Skybox about whether you can make something traditionally boring, like compliance, fun? Seriously, no joke. We think you can and want to show you other ways that people have gotten creative and made a tough, boring, complex process better by injecting a little fun into it.

We spend a lot of time talking about the negative ‘work-only’ effects of a ROWE environment (AKA sludge) but what’s interesting is the sludge we didn’t expect. My audio post expands on that. Love to hear your thoughts!

If you follow The Garland Group blog, you no doubt have heard about the Result Only Work Environment (ROWE) in which we work. We often talk about how great it to work “whenever we want, wherever we want, as long as the work gets done.” You may even be starting to think that this “Garland Group” isn’t a real company, it only exists somewhere in between the real world and the land of unicorns and fairy god mothers.