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Last Call: A CCPA Readiness Primer

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 1, 2020. That’s just 40 days from the date we published this blog. Yet we continue to see a considerable number of organizations that are...

Jeffrey Sanchez

Joel Wuesthoff

Compliance

Data Broker Registration and the California Privacy Rights and Enforcement Act of 2020

There is one certainty about the 2018 California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA): Today’s CCPA is not going to be next year’s CCPA. The volume and velocity of changes to the CCPA and the lack of...

Ron Naulls

Compliance Security

Building a Privacy Function, From the Ground Up

Consumer data. Who’s collecting it? How is it being used? What regulations are being put in place that can impact how my organization collects, stores, processes and transfers that data? These are the types of questions that we hear over and over...

Kevin Strope

Stephen Nation

October 24, 2019

Finance

Reimagining Procure-to-Pay Processes to Drive Process Optimization, Profit Growth

It’s a rarely-talked-about adage in business that deserves more attention: procurement pays! Time and again, statistics show a strong correlation between a well-defined procurement process and healthy corporate performance. Regardless of industry...

Sri Velicheti

October 21, 2019

Cloud Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Keeping Up with the Cloud

By 2021, more than 75 percent of midsize and large organizations will have adopted a multi-cloud and/or hybrid IT strategy. This infographic details the risks that can happen when moving to cloud and the key steps organizations should take to...

Randy Armknecht

Isaac Zapata

October 18, 2019

Compliance

Finalized CCPA Regulations Released

The California Attorney General (AG) has issued the Proposed Text of Regulations for implementing the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) along with an Initial Statement of Reasons. Governor Gavin Newsom has signed the amendments to the...

Ron Naulls

October 17, 2019

Applications Cybersecurity Security

Top 5 Considerations When Managing Service Accounts

Overview Service accounts, frequently used with applications, systems and web services, are a critical component to operations of information technology. The ever-evolving threat landscape for service accounts has changed the way organizations must...

Ryan Clapman

Josh Willison

Ryan James

October 15, 2019

Cybersecurity

A Holistic Approach to Data Loss Prevention

The cybersecurity landscape is littered with failed data loss prevention (DLP) initiatives. Perhaps surprising to many, most of these failures are the result of positioning DLP as a tool. Let’s be clear: an effective DLP is not a feature. It’s not a...

Francis Ofungwu

Kenneth Myers

October 14, 2019

Cloud Data and Analytics

Why Are Companies Interested in SAP’s Latest Analytics Cloud Solution?

Enterprise reporting and analytics are constantly evolving, both as new technology is introduced, and as organizational requirements change. The need for an agile, flexible solution that can quickly deliver meaningful business value has never been...

Matt Hawkins

October 11, 2019

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: The Real Cost of Skipping Risk Quantification

By 2021, cybercrime is likely to cost the world $6 trillion each year. Cyber risk quantification helps businesses understand the real costs of not adequately preparing for and protecting against cyber threats. Cyber risk quantification uses industry...

Vince Dasta

October 3, 2019

Compliance Security

GDPR One Year Later: What Have We Learned?

Remember how crazy things were last year at this time, when the world was wondering what impact the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) would have? The European Union regulation on data protection and privacy for all individual citizens of the...

Katie Stevens

Joel Wuesthoff

September 27, 2019