Description: Maintain strong spreadsheet risk management after Microsoft Audit & Control Manager Server 2013 support ended. CIMCON Software helps govern Excel and Access files with automated change tracking, error detection, and control across cloud and on-premises environments.
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Tag: model inventory
Description: Model risk management with CIMCON enables automated model identification, self-updating inventory, flexible risk assessment, interdependency mapping, centralized documentation, third-party risk oversight, audit trails, and streamlined approval workflows for stronger governance and control.
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Tag: model inventory
Description: Spreadsheet errors can lead to financial losses, public scrutiny, executive accountability, and operational disruption. This article highlights spreadsheet risk and the importance of strong controls to protect business performance, ensure compliance, and safeguard leadership from preventable crises.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: Ensure seamless cloud migration with CIMCON’s EUC Insight Link Fixer. Fast scans categorize files by type and risk, map enterprise data flow, fix broken links, store data in SQL for reporting, and generate validation reports to ensure accuracy and completeness.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: Identify and inventory PII across millions of end-user files to ensure GDPR compliance, strengthen data security, and reduce risk from unstructured information. Discover how organizations can scan, track, and remediate sensitive data before it becomes a liability.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: BaFin’s BAIT guidelines define IT supervision standards for German financial institutions, focusing on information security, EUC risk classification, and central inventories. CIMCON’s EUC Insight helps meet BAIT requirements through risk analysis, monitoring, and compliance-ready EUC management.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: Understand how to mitigate Shadow AI risks with consistent monitoring, comprehensive AI testing, LLM vulnerability and hallucination checks, explainability, and strong controls to ensure compliance, transparency, and accountability.
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Tag: shadow artificial intelligence
Description: Industry’s first compliant end-to-end AI lifecycle suite by CIMCON helps enterprises reduce validation and compliance costs with pre-built agentic AI, regulatory-aligned AI testing, and a complete platform for AI inventory, discovery, change control, use, and validation.
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Tag: ai in compliance, ai for compliance
Description: Before building a custom model inventory system in SharePoint, evaluate licensing fees, native vs custom functionality, file control challenges, IT dependency, domain expertise gaps, and true long-term costs compared with purpose-built inventory solutions.
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Tag: Model Inventory
Description: Overview of PRA Supervisory Statement SS3/18 on model risk management, its added compliance burden for UK banks, and how modern model inventory SaaS helps overstretched teams manage documentation, risk visibility, and regulatory expectations efficiently.
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Tag: model inventory
Description: AI in finance is now a critical pillar of fraud prevention, enabling real-time monitoring, deep learning, and behavioral analytics to uncover hidden fraud patterns, stop sophisticated attacks, reduce false positives, and protect global financial systems in 2026 and beyond.
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Tag: ai in finance
Description: Managing EUC risk is challenging due to complex spreadsheet models, limited security controls, cascading model interdependencies, multiple contributors, version conflicts, and inadequate testing—factors that significantly increase the risk of costly errors.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: EUC & model inventories with automated risk assessment, AI detection, audit trails, and approval workflows help firms meet regulatory guidance, uncover hidden EUC risks, manage third-party exposure, and maintain secure, compliant operations.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: BlackRock’s PII spreadsheet leak shows how human error and Excel-based EUCs create data risk. Learn how stronger EUC controls, data classification, file scanning, and centralized policies help prevent PII exposure and reduce security incidents.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: Financial institutions are rapidly adopting advanced models, making AI in finance a major driver of innovation and risk. CIMCON helps identify, inventory, and assess AI models to manage regulatory and business challenges effectively.
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Tag: AI in finance
Description: Industry’s first compliant end-to-end AI lifecycle suite by CIMCON, featuring an advanced AI validator, pre-built AI agents, compliant validation for AI, GenAI, and LLMs, plus a unified platform for AI inventory, discovery, change control, use, and governance.
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Tag: ai validator
Description: Discover the evolving regulatory landscape for AI and model risk management, including SS1/23, CP 6/22, the EU AI Act, NIST’s AI Risk Management Framework, U.S. SR 11-7 guidance, and Canada’s AIDA requirements for responsible AI use.
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Tag: ss1/23
Description: The BlackRock PII leak shows how easily spreadsheet errors can expose sensitive data. Strengthen your organization’s security with better EUC controls, data classification, high-speed file scanning, and centralized protection to reduce human error and prevent similar incidents.
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Tag: end-user control
Description: Boost business agility with a smarter end user computing (EUC) strategy. Learn how cloud-first models, Zero Trust security, automation, and the EUC Insight Inventory enhance flexibility, speed, and workforce efficiency in today’s fast-changing digital landscape.
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Tag: end-user computing
Description: Maintain a reliable, up-to-date model inventory to strengthen your model governance program. Discover how modern cloud-based solutions like CIMCON’s Model Inventory Cloud™ simplify tracking model risks without heavy IT involvement or costly consulting.
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Tag: model inventory
Description: A Smart Model Inventory Framework streamlines governance, boosts transparency, and unifies all analytical models. It enhances decision-making, reduces risk, and transforms scattered models into a strategic business asset.
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Tag: model inventory
Description: Shadow artificial intelligence poses serious security and compliance risks as employees use unapproved AI tools within organizations. Learn how to identify, manage, and control shadow AI to prevent data leaks, regulatory breaches, and unauthorized access while ensuring safe and governed AI adoption.
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Tag: Shadow AI, shadow artificial intelligence
Description: Protect sensitive Excel data with Cell Conceal™, a free Microsoft AppSource add-in. Easily redact or encrypt cells to prevent data breaches, ensure compliance with HIPAA and GDPR, and keep your business information secure when sharing spreadsheets.
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Tag: Excel risk management
Description: Explore how a robust End-User Computing (EUC) strategy strengthens security, compliance, and productivity in modern enterprises. Learn best practices for managing Shadow IT, data risks, automation, and Zero Trust architecture while building a culture of compliance and accountability.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: CIMCON’s AIValidator® revolutionizes AI & GenAI validation by reverse engineering testing from regulatory requirements, integrating open-source research, RAG-based attribution models, and cutting-edge SHAP value computation advancements.
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Tag: ai validator, validator software
Description: Fraud detection helps organizations identify and prevent financial crimes such as identity theft, phishing, and occupational fraud. Effective risk mitigation strategies are crucial to protect revenue, reduce losses, and strengthen overall business security.
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Tag: ai in finance
Description: Explore how CIMCON ensures smooth cloud migration for applications, databases, and files without disrupting EUC and Model controls. Learn how EUC Insight Inventory supports seamless transitions to Amazon AWS or Microsoft Azure with secure, uninterrupted performance.
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Tag: end user computing
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Description: Explore the classic “make or buy” dilemma in IT and learn why vendor-developed software often delivers better results for end user computing. Discover how proven solutions enhance reliability, reduce long-term costs, and adapt to evolving business needs.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: Discover the fascinating history of spreadsheets with Ariel Fischman, Guinness World Record holder for the largest spreadsheet software collection, and explore how these powerful tools became essential in our daily lives.
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Tag: SR11 7
Description: Asset managers rely on CIMCON Software to streamline risk management with AI, GenAI, and spreadsheet tools. From validation, inventory, and controls to approvals, monitoring, and reporting, CIMCON helps firms manage risk with accuracy and efficiency.
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Tag: model inventory
Description: Every finance team relies on spreadsheets, but errors in Accounting, Treasury, Tax, and FP&A create major risks. Spreadsheet governance reduces errors, manages EUC risk, and balances compliance with productivity across the organization.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: UK SOX compliance demands strong governance of end user computing tools. Ensure spreadsheets, databases, and code-driven models meet ARGA audit standards to reduce risks, safeguard directors, and maintain reporting integrity.
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Tag: end user computing
Posted by 23 days ago (https://cimcon.com/navigating-the-ai-horizon-a-closer-look-at-the-white-executive-order-on-ai-and-its-impact-on-financial-companies/)
Description: The Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI establishes a framework for responsible AI development, focusing on privacy, bias prevention, and transparency to ensure ethical use across industries.
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Tag: shadow artificial intelligence
Description: CIMCON’s Discovery Module scans millions of EUCs, Models, and AI to uncover risks like Python vulnerabilities, hidden sheets, and macro code. Proactively monitor and mitigate risks before they turn into costly errors.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: Discover how CIMCON Software helps financial institutions manage AI model risk. With 30+ years in Model/EUC risk management, CIMCON provides automated AI model inventory, risk assessment, and monitoring to address business, regulatory, and reputational challenges.
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Tag: end user computing, model inventory
Description: Discover strategies to detect and manage shadow AI, from identifying internal GenAI use in EUCs and models to monitoring 3rd party applications, mapping interdependencies, testing for vulnerabilities, and implementing proper controls, workflows, and accountability.
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Tag: Shadow AI, Shadow artificial intelligence
Description: SR 11-7, issued by the Federal Reserve and OCC, outlines Supervisory Guidance on Model Risk Management. It defines models, sets governance and validation standards, and ensures banks manage model risk, accountability, and compliance effectively.
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Tag: SR11 7
Posted by 13 days ago (https://cimcon.com/products/solutions-eucinsight-inventory/)
Description: Discover why CIMCON’s Inventory Module is the smarter choice for building a comprehensive model inventory. Seamlessly integrate EUCs, Models, and AI risk management with dynamic rules, automations, and workflows that align with regulatory expectations.
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Tag: model inventory
Description: EUC Insight Link Fixer by CIMCON ensures data integrity during cloud migration by identifying and fixing broken links in Excel, Word, SharePoint, PowerPoint, Access, and other EUC files. Server-based, no installation needed, with full validation reporting.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: Shadow AI refers to the unmonitored use of AI within organizations, bypassing IT or compliance oversight. Risks include hidden internal models, embedded AI in third-party apps, and unauthorized use of generative AI tools—posing threats to data privacy, governance, and model oversight.
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Tag: Shadow Artificial Intelligence, Shadow AI
Posted by 16 days ago (https://cimcon.com/)
Description: CIMCON Software helps minimize business risks in end-user computing applications: spreadsheets, Access Databases, VBScript, Tableau, R, etc.
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Tag: End User Computing
Description: Errors of accounting are widespread, especially in spreadsheets with over 150 rows—90% contain mistakes. From poor version control and insecure access to lack of documentation, discover why these errors occur and how they can impact financial accuracy.
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Tag: errors of accounting, spreadsheet errors
Description: The Prudential Regulatory Authority’s SS1/23 outlines mandatory model risk management principles for UK banks, effective May 2024. This blog breaks down the five core principles, key MRM requirements, and next steps for aligning with the new standards.
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Tag: Model Risk management
Description: Accounting errors are alarmingly common, with over 90% of large spreadsheets containing mistakes that can lead to financial loss, reputational damage, and regulatory fines. From poor version control to insecure access, these risks can be mitigated through automated EUC inventory, access controls, audit trails, and error-checking workflows.
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Tag: End User Computing
Description: Discover the key components of SS1/23, the PRA’s new model risk management regulation for U.K. banks, effective May 17, 2024. Learn how it governs AI, mandates model inventories, enforces governance, and promotes independent validation for safe, compliant modeling practices.
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Tag: ss1
Description: Ensure compliance with the PRA’s SS1/23, a key regulation for Model Risk Management (MRM) in the UK, effective May 17, 2024. Learn how CIMCON Software’s solutions help banks and financial institutions manage model inventory, AI governance, validation, documentation, and third-party risk. Stay ahead with automated model identification, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance.
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Tag: ss1
Description: CIMCON Software helps minimize business risks in end-user computing applications: spreadsheets, Access Databases, VBScript, Tableau, R, etc., ensuring compliance and data integrity. As the leading EUC solutions provider, we serve 500+ companies worldwide with the most robust risk management system, proven software, and global support.
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Tag: end user computing, shadow artificial intelligence, model inventory
Description: Discover how CIMCON's EUC Insight Inventory ensures seamless cloud migration. Move servers and data to AWS or Azure without disrupting EUC controls using a proven 3-phase approach for secure, uninterrupted transitions.
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Tag: EUC Insight Inventory
Description: Protect your sensitive data from cyber threats with robust spreadsheet security and end user computing controls. With hackers targeting exposed spreadsheets, implementing scanning, analysis, and monitoring is crucial. Learn how to safeguard your data with essential protections.
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Tag: Model Risk Management
Description: Ensure your stress test modeling meets regulatory standards with effective Model Risk Management. Learn how CIMCON’s EUC controls help banks and insurers comply with CCAR, DFAST, and Solvency II while minimizing errors and model risk.
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Tag: Model Risk Management
Description: Discover why spreadsheets remain essential in end user computing despite risks of errors and breaches. Explore 3 key reasons to retain Excel in business processes, including its ease of use, IT flexibility, and risk mitigation options that balance efficiency and control.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: Analyze Enron's public Excel files to uncover insights into end user computing, spreadsheet functionality, and security challenges. Learn how to optimize management and enhance data security.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: Explore the hidden risks of spreadsheet errors in end user computing that could impact your organization. With over 90% of spreadsheets containing mistakes, learn how growing complexity and lack of controls make error prevention essential for safeguarding sensitive information.
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Tag: end user computing
Description: Master EUC risk management with 5 steps to reduce risks and stay compliant. Update model inventory, standardize assessments, map interdependencies, and improve controls. Streamline documentation and approval workflows for better efficiency.
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Tag: EUC risk management
Description: CIMCON XLAudit 4.8 simplifies EUC Risk Management with risk attestation and criticality assessments directly in Excel. Empower business users with automated spreadsheet analysis and model sensitivity tools for faster, error-free results.
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Tag: EUC risk management
Description: Explore the ongoing Excel debate between finance professionals and software critics. Learn why spreadsheets and EUC Inventory remain vital for agility, innovation, and business insights, and how proper controls can mitigate risks without stifling creativity.
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Tag: EUC Inventory
Description: AI Risk management is crucial for financial institutions adopting AI models. CIMCON Software leverages 30+ years of expertise in end user computing (EUC) risk to identify, assess, and monitor AI models, helping mitigate business, regulatory, and reputational risks with intelligent automation and robust controls.
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Tag: end user computing