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    Understanding Server Message Block from the Ground Up
    The Server Message Block (SMB) is an integral part of any successful organization’s technology assets. In this blog post, we’ll take an easily digestible look at SMB, including its history, why and how it is used and what SMB is used for during penetration tests. SMB was first referenced as “IBM PC Network SMB Protocol” in a 1985 document by IBM, and in 1987 as “Microsoft Networks/OpenNet-FILE…
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    Shifting Priorities: What TMT Industry Finance Leaders Are Focused on Today
    In a survey about their top priorities, corporate finance leaders and teams in the technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) industry ranked data security and privacy second to none, followed by enhanced data analytics and embracing new technologies. The survey results affirm many of today’s business realities: Data is a valuable corporate asset that needs to be produced and analyzed…
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    Proceed, Delay or Cancel? Reevaluating the Capital Allocation Process
    Capital allocation is a process typically owned by the CFO. From the CEO’s perspective, allocating capital is one of the most important strategic financial decisions he or she makes that underpins the organization’s prospects for long-term growth and success. As for the board, directors are stewards of capital deployment. As such, one might say that the process of allocating capital is the CFO’s…
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    Four Enablers to Achieve a Balanced Approach to Inventory Management
    As CFOs deepen their collaborations with supply chain leaders to deploy and improve revenue assurance models, they’re seeking reassurance that “just-in-case” approaches will not lead to excess inventories or trigger working capital and cashflow management risks. Supply chain leaders can assuage these concerns by acquainting corporate finance leaders with the new processes and protocols they are…
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    Tackling Data Privacy, Cyber Supply Chain Gaps Key to Building Organizational Resilience
    Technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) company leaders are under growing pressure to identify and remediate potential gaps in policies and processes — especially those related to data privacy and cyber supply chain networks — that could expose their organizations to regulatory risks. During a recent webinar with audit professionals, Protiviti subject-matter experts discussed the growing…
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    Present Challenges Notwithstanding, the EU’s Energy Transition Holds Long-Term Promise
    Europe’s effort to stamp out greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 in accord with the Paris Agreement and the European Green Deal is arguably the most progressive energy transition plan ever initiated. Ultimately, the continent aims to replace fossil fuel-fired power plants with wind, solar, hydrogen and other renewable sources that will result in innovative business models, technologies and revenue…
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    Flash Report – Biden Doubles Down at COP27
    Last Friday at the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or Conference of the Parties of the UNFCCC (more commonly referred to as COP27), in Egypt, United States President Joe Biden asserted that global warming posed an existential threat to the planet and promised his country would meet its targets for fighting it. In his speech, he said, “The climate crisis is about human security,…
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    The Age of Sustainability: As New European Disclosure Requirements Take Shape, Here’s How Businesses Should Stay Ready
    UPDATE: The European Council approved the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) on November 28, 2022. Read the Protiviti Flash Report. Background The Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) is to become the backbone of sustainability reporting within the European Union (EU). Its goal is to remedy problems with insufficient sustainability information provided by…
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    HR, Health Thyself: A Comprehensive and Collaborative HR “Physical”
    When it comes to conducting self-evaluations, HR functions are uniquely disadvantaged. Most HR teams are time-pressed and resource-challenged. Precious few can afford to reassign HR professionals muscling through 60-hour work weeks to diagnose the function’s overall health. And many CHROs understandably bristle when the board or their CEO charges another organizational function — internal audit…
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    15 Questions Boards Should Ask Their CFOs
    The latest Global Finance Trends Survey from Protiviti reveals a number of priorities that CFOs and finance leaders are focusing on, from security and privacy to talent management, to ESG and even the supply chain. As these also represent key areas of interest for boards of directors, board members should be having open and frequent dialogue with their CFOs to understand the strategy behind these…
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