What Happens After the Deadline? Post-Compliance Strategy for DORA & Beyond
By Ian Wilson, SVP – GRC Business Development, UK & EuropeIan leads CLDigital’s UK & Europe GRC sales and business development activities, including new client onboarding and partner engagement. Executive Summary The January 2025 DORA compliance deadline marked a major milestone for financial institutions across the European Union, but it was never intended to be […]
The CLDigital Model in Action: How Our Platform Supports Enterprise-Wide Execution
The CLDigital Model in Action: How Our Platform Supports Enterprise-Wide Execution By Casey Friese, CISOCasey leads CLDigital’s security, data protection, and infrastructure strategy and delivery. Executive Summary Enterprise execution is increasingly challenged by fragmented systems, siloed data, and manual processes that slow decision-making and obscure risk. The CLDigital model addresses this by unifying data, workflows, […]
The No-Code Playbook: Building Risk and Resilience Apps Without Dev Time
By Tejas Katwala, Co-Founder & CEOTejas co-founded CLDigital in 2006 and leads the company’s growth and strategy, including delivering the first no-code platform for enterprise risk management. Executive Summary Risk and resilience teams are under increasing pressure to deliver stronger oversight while moving faster with fewer resources. Traditional development models, dependent on IT queues, cannot […]
Bridging the Gaps Between Business Continuity, Incident Management, and Risk
By Ian Wilson, SVP – GRC Business Development, UK & EuropeIan leads CLDigital’s UK & Europe GRC sales and business development, including new client onboarding and partner engagement. Executive Summary Operational resilience is no longer about isolated programs, it requires a connected operating model. Many organizations still manage business continuity, incident management, and risk in […]
Modernizing Risk Assessments: From Spreadsheets to Smart Workflows
By David Mack, SVP Business Development, AmericasDavid leads CLDigital’s Americas initiatives across business development, marketing, and account management. Executive Summary Modern risk management is undergoing a structural shift. Static, spreadsheet-driven assessments can no longer meet the demands of evolving regulatory frameworks such as DORA or NIST, nor can they keep pace with dynamic risk environments. […]
Leadership Lessons from Crisis Response: Building a Culture of Accountability
By Chad Robbins, Chief Customer Officer When a crisis hits, most organizations discover something uncomfortable: their “plan” isn’t the problem. Execution is. And execution is rarely a technology gap. It’s a leadership gap, specifically, a gap in accountability. In the moment, accountability is not a slogan or a value on a wall. It’s a set […]
Operational Resilience Beyond Compliance
By Tejas Katwala Operational resilience is no longer a niche control discipline sitting quietly beside compliance, cyber, and business continuity. It is becoming a defining measure of whether an organisation can continue delivering critical services, protect customers from harm, and sustain trust when disruption occurs. In financial services especially, resilience is no longer judged by whether […]
Data Without Direction: Why Insights Alone Don’t Drive Resilience
By Tejas Katwala Most organizations today have plenty of data. What they often lack is direction, a clear line from insight to decision to action. In resilience and risk programs, this gap is more than a nuisance. It’s the difference between surviving disruption and merely documenting compliance. In conversations with risk leaders across financial services, […]
Why Real-Time Compliance Is the Only Compliance That Matters
By Chad Robbins, Chief Customer Officer, CLDigital Why “Check-the-Box” Compliance Can’t Keep Up Most organizations still run compliance as a series of snapshots: On paper, that model looks tidy. In practice, it’s completely out of sync with how modern risk works. Infrastructure is elastic, vendors change constantly, threats evolve hourly, and regulators are now asking […]
Are Your Risk Scores Lying to You? Why Quantification Needs Context
By David Mack, SVP, Business Development, Americas, CLDigital Every risk manager knows the scene: you’re presenting to leadership, the board, or regulators, and you flash a heatmap with scores from 1–5 or “high/medium/low.” Heads nod politely. Then someone asks: “But what does this really mean for us?” That’s the problem with risk scoring as it’s […]