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    California Consumer Privacy Act Amendments Update & FAQs
    The California legislature finished its 2019 session on Friday, September 13, marking the end of opportunities to make changes before the bill goes into effect on January 1, 2020. In sum, five of six CCPA amendments were passed during the 2019 legislative session.  Among the changes and clarifications included in the amendments, the most noteworthy include: 1) AB 25 exempts for one year the…
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    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 European Union and the European Economic Area, which also addresses the transfer of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas was definitely top of…
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    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-leading and highly-vetted probabilisitic models to more accurately describe the cybersecurity and technology-based risks facing an organization. This…
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    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 more critical. Software vendors are addressing these requirements in various ways and, almost without exception, the infrastructure of choice is cloud…
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    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 product. It’s not a tool. Rather, it is an ecosystem, or a mindset around the number of people, processes and technologies that must be bound…
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    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 protect them. This post describes the fundamentals of service accounts, the risks they pose and the challenge for management. What are service…
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    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 CCPA.  A short synopsis of the released draft regulations is below. What is included in the Proposed Text of Regulations and the Initial…
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    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 minimize risk and optimize value.
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    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, strong procurement functions result in higher revenues and reduced procurement process costs. Which is why it’s important to ensure your procurement…
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    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 again from many of our clients, who are realizing that they are now faced with some of the most stringent privacy laws for their industries that have…
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