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    How to Integrate Threat and Vulnerability Management into Security Operations
    In today’s cybersecurity threat landscape with its ever-growing volume of incidents, it is remarkable to think that proactive threat and vulnerability management remains a challenge for companies to address effectively. Organizations are adopting threat exposure management techniques to manage business risks stemming from developing and applying technology such as Internet of Things (IoT)…
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    Managing IoT for Data Privacy
    On March 9, 2021, Bloomberg reported hackers had accessed videos and data from thousands of security cameras in an event now known as the Verkada breach. Our first post about the incident covered the importance of end-to-end Internet of Things (IoT) security; this post takes a deeper look at IoT data privacy risk and suggests how purchasing organizations can mitigate it. It’s worth considering…
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    Balancing Identity and Access Management for Risk Versus Speed
    In today’s rapidly evolving business world, the lines between technology and business have blurred. Organizations need to modernize and transform their technology in order to successfully compete. CIOs play a critical role in transforming the world of work using automation and technology – but they can’t do it alone. Collaboration among the C-suite is critical. In this blog series, Protiviti’s…
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    Lessons Learned During an SAP Risk Management Implementation
    Implementation projects can present a variety of unique occurrences that can have both positive and negative effects on the process. Whether these events are problems to be solved or wins for the implementation team, they are also learning opportunities. Whether good or bad, it is key to take a step back and reflect on how the team addressed these events and how there may be opportunities for…
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    New IT Audit Survey From Protiviti and ISACA Ranks Cybersecurity, Privacy, Data and Regulatory Compliance as Top Technology Challenges
    Where to even begin? An uncertain global economy, volatile geopolitical developments, a persistent pandemic, a changing regulatory landscape, and an evolving catalog of technology risk concerns have created mounting challenges for IT audit leaders and their functions. It is a real eye opener seeing the results of the latest IT Audit Technology Risks Survey from ISACA and Protiviti. One clearly…
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    A Hot Jobs Market Requires Organizations to Strengthen Talent Acquisition Strategies
    Fierce competition among organizations for too few workers has created a job seeker’s market. Unemployment has remained at a historically low rate of 3.6% since the end of April, and employers were seeking to fill 11.5 million job openings as of the end of April after hiring 6.7 million during the month. But for a temporary increase in unemployment due to the pandemic lockdowns, this is largely…
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    Navigating Digital Disruption With Futurologist and Professor Stefan Gröner
    How does a business go extinct? It’s not for lack of product improvement ideas, says futurologist, professor and business consultant Dr. Stefan Gröner. Typically, it’s for lack of understanding what customers really want. Gröner offers the example of the stagecoach. As a product, it could be endlessly improved by making it bigger or more comfortable. But what people wanted was speed. Once the…
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    Effective Cybersecurity is Essential as Cyber Threats Expected to Continue Over Next Decade
    In today’s rapidly evolving business world, the lines between technology and business have blurred. Organizations need to modernize and transform their technology in order to successfully compete. CIOs play a critical role in transforming the world of work using automation and technology – but they can’t do it alone. Collaboration among the C-suite is critical. In this blog series, Protiviti’s…
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    The Role of Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: A Perspective From Africa
    What does the curriculum of incoming college freshmen in 2022 have to do with how we work in 2030? A lot, according to Professor Tawana Kupe, Vice-President and Principal of the University of Pretoria in South Africa, as 2030 will be just the beginning of their careers in a future that’s anything but certain. So, it’s not accidental that Kupe’s university has launched a Centre for the Future of…
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    Smart Assets: Making IoT More Secure
    Businesses have embraced numerous Internet of Things (IoT) devices to automate processes, increase productivity, save money, generate important metrics and more. To realize these benefits, traditional physical devices (hardware) have progressed to “hybrid” products that now incorporate software to collect and connectivity to transmit meaningful information. This progression has created the…
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