Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog Predictive Maintenance: Why It Matters; How It Works There is nothing worse than unplanned downtime. Whether it’s your personal vehicle or a manufacturing plant, unplanned downtime is one of the most disruptive things that can occur delaying schedules and incurring significant costs. One of the other least favorite occurrences for someone that owns a physical asset is paying for maintenance when it’s not needed. What if we had a dynamic solution… Blog Taming Open Source Risk According to the annual Sonatype State of the Software Supply Chain Report, open source software (OSS) consumption is growing at an estimated 33% annually across the primary OSS ecosystems - namely, Java (Maven), .NET (nuget), Javascript (npmjs) and Python (PyPI). As such, it is important to understand the risks and benefits of using OSS and the role proper governance plays in enabling… Blog Digital Twin Applications in Manufacturing Depending on whom one asks, digital twin technology has been around since 1991, 2002 or 2010. In the past few years, however, interest in digital twins for manufacturing has intensified for two critical reasons: a scarcity of workers and a scarcity of raw materials. While digital twins have been gaining popularity for several years, businesses since the pandemic see these virtual representations… Blog For $62.59, the 8 Character Password is Still Dead Five years ago, we wrote a post called "The 8 Character Password is Dead,” which was an in-depth look at password cracking in 2017 and how eight-character passwords do not adequately protect organizations. In that analysis, we broke down the math and how quickly hardware purchased for under $5,000 could make an eight-character length irrelevant. Unfortunately, in just five years’ time, the… Blog What You Read Most: Top Five SAP Insights from 2022 This year, our leading experts came together to address some of the most game-changing topics in the SAP space. Here are Protiviti’s most popular SAP insights from 2022 as you look ahead to the new year. By and large, these topics will remain important for your success in 2023. Read our top five most-read pieces below. #1. Case Study: Selecting a Conversion Type for SAP BW/4HANA… Blog The Evolution of Attacker Behavior: 3 Case Studies Threat actors are an ever-evolving species. Portrayed in popular advertising as guys dressed in black, probably sporting a ski mask, the harsh reality is that these bad actors are everywhere and are getting more creative by the day. Just when an organization’s security systems have been upgraded to avoid the latest threats, new challenges appear on the horizon. Staying steps ahead of these… Blog Telling Your ESG Story: Five Data Considerations The first formal mention of environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles appeared some 18 years ago in the United Nations Global Compact initiative, which garnered support from financial institutions across the world. During the next decade-and-a-half, and without much notice, ESG slowly gained steam. But outcries to address climate change in recent years, as well as social and gender… Blog The Post-Quantum Cryptography Conundrum Business leaders may have heard of quantum computing, but many are not yet aware of its incipient threat to cryptography and cryptocurrency. When these machines reach a sufficient level of performance, they will be able to easily factor prime numbers, which poses a threat to RSA. Only a few realize that the time to prepare for the conundrum of post-quantum risk is now. In quantum computing, the… Blog Create to Execute: Managing the Fine Print of Sales Contracting In Protiviti’s recent post, Easy As CPQ: Launching A Successful Sales Cycle, we outlined the Configure, Price Quote phase of the Q2C process. The next critical step in a company’s quote-to-cash (Q2C) process, and one that helps solidify accurate revenue collection, reporting and a good customer experience, is contract creation and execution. During this phase, any prior negotiations are… Blog Talent, Culture and Disruption Are Top-Ranking Risks for CFOs, Survey Shows I love to learn new words. Whether or not CFOs are familiar with this term, they undoubtedly know its connotation and are dealing with its effects every day. Permacrisis — named by the UK-based Collins English Dictionary as the 2022 word of the year — is defined as “an extended period of instability and insecurity, especially one resulting from a series of catastrophic events.” In essence, it’s a… Load More
