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    Managing the New Currency: Developing a High-Performing Data Management Organization
    These days, the hot analogy in the analytics industry is that data is the new oil. Like oil, data must be found, extracted, refined and distributed. More companies are investing heavily in cutting-edge technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data processing to help them harvest, groom and apply data to the correct use case for maximum value. So why, then, in the midst…
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    AI and the Digital Future of the Insurance Industry
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is disrupting the insurance business. Though insurers are somewhat late to the party, compared with other industry groups, some have already implemented a broad range of applications for such AI staples as natural language processing (NLP), robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning (ML) and deep learning. I want to take a dive into three areas that are…
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    Want to Increase User Adoption? Try This Simple FRA2MEwork
    For as long as business intelligence (BI) has existed, organizations have made significant investments in high-performing platforms – only to find no one will use the solution. Why? For one, end users cannot find information quickly, or at all. Two, the information they do find isn’t relevant. Three, they expect their BI systems to work as effortlessly as popular search engines and social media,…
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    3 Ds to Compliance and Beyond with the New Lease Accounting Standards
    The clock is ticking as organizations get set to meet the requirements of new lease accounting standards. Issued in February 2016, FASB Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) Topic 842 requires lessees to report assets and liabilities related to leases of one year or more on the balance sheet. The new lease standard takes effect starting December 2018 for public companies and a year later for…
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    On the Road to Digital Transformation, One Map Does Not Fit All
    It seems that everywhere one looks today, another organization is going through a digital transformation. And that is, in fact, true. According to a recent global Gartner survey of over 3,000 chief information officers (CIOs), 95 percent of respondents can feel the effects of digitalization – and expect their job to change because of it. The underpinning factors of digitalization (…
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    Hidden Vulnerability: GDPR Data in Unexpected Places
    The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — one of the most comprehensive data privacy regulations in history is effective as of May 25, 2018. This regulation imposes strict requirements on how the personal data of EU subjects is collected, used and stored — both within the EU and by foreign companies doing business within the EU, including small web-based businesses that…
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    GDPR: Legitimate Interest vs. Consent
    For the past several months organizations around the globe have been updating privacy policies to include their lawful basis for holding and processing a user’s information, in an effort to comply with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The law, which took effect May 25, 2018, is considered to be among the toughest privacy laws in the world. Protiviti has been…
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    GDPR and EU AML Directives – A Regulatory Tug-of-War?
    The impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, effective 25 May 2018, will be felt for some time to come. One area where GDPR will present a significant ongoing challenge for the financial services industry relates to the personal data collection and processing obligations created under anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. The tension between the AML and privacy requirements is not new…
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    A Look at Full Meltdown: A Vulnerability Created by Patching Spectre and Meltdown
    The introduction of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities produced patches from big-name vendors such as Intel, AMD and Microsoft. These vulnerabilities allowed memory leakage due to the exploitation of the CPU’s speculative execution. A Swedish security researcher, Ulf Frisk, discovered that the January and February Microsoft Security patches mitigated Meltdown but produced a new threat: The…
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    GDPR: Here’s What’s Happened So Far
    After four years of preparations and numerous revisions, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the most-lobbied piece of legislation in the history of the European Union, was finally approved by the EU Parliament in April 2016. Following a two-year transitional period, GDPR became enforceable on May 25, 2018. Within hours of the regulation taking affect, popular U.S. news sites were…
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