About

The author

Nicolas Racz currently pursues a doctorate degree at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Vienna). Building on business intelligence and corporate performance management experience in global IT departments in the pharmaceutical and chemical industry, he now researches the integrated approach to Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) with a focus on information systems.Nicolas started his academic career in 2003 at the University of Media in Stuttgart, where he obtained a degree in information management. During the four-year programme, he also attended courses in IT management at HEIG-VD in Lausanne, Switzerland and in business administration at the University of Bath, United Kingdom.

Feel free to contact Nicolas for inquiries, suggestions or general exchange of thoughts.

The website

GRC-Resource.com is a portal providing information on Integrated GRC and on the individual topics involved, such as risk management, compliance, information technology and so on. The targets of GRC-Resource.com are as follows:

  • Help people new to GRC to quickly grasp the concept.
  • Coherently provide resources on GRC, be it articles, websites, books, podcasts or others.
  • Promote the idea of Integrated GRC.

Publications

Racz, N., Weippl, E. & Seufert, A. (2010): A frame of reference for research of integrated Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC). In: Bart De Decker, Ingrid Schaumüller-Bichl (Eds.), Communications and Multimedia Security, 11th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 International Conference, CMS 2010 Proceedings. Berlin: Springer, pp. 106-117.

Racz, N., Weippl, E. & Seufert, A. (2010): A process model for integrated IT governance, risk, and compliance management. In: J. Barzdins & M. Kirikova (eds.), Databases and Information Systems. Proceedings of the Ninth International Baltic Conference, Baltic DB&IS 2010, pp. 155-170.

Racz, N., Weippl, E. & Seufert, A. (2010): Questioning the need for seperate IT risk management frameworks. In: Proceedings of the Informatik 2010 Conference, Leipzig.

Racz, N., Weippl, E. & Seufert, A. (2011): Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC) Software – An Exploratory Study of Software Vendor and Market Research Perspectives. In: Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences.