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    Resolved: Develop a Proactive Security Strategy for 2019 and Beyond
    In January each year, many of us (myself included) typically take time to reflect on the year that was, and the things we want to improve upon in the coming 12 months. Like many, I made some 2019 resolutions that will help me in both my personal and professional life. I’ve often wondered, if we can make personal and professional resolutions to improve ourselves, can we also make resolutions to…
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    SAP BI Platform Security Best Practices: Access Rights and Custom Access Levels
    This is the first in a series of blogs about security in the SAP BI Platform. The SAP BI Platform comes with a set of five default access levels: View Schedule View on Demand Full Control (owner) Full Control However, there are many situations where these either give too much access or not enough for a given situation. While it is possible to use an access level to assign security…
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    A Client’s Perspective: Getting the Right Organizational Buy-In to Build a Data-Driven Enterprise
    Developing an organizational culture that recognizes and respects the value of using data to drive business is a concept most clients hope to embrace. Great in theory but in reality, most companies are spread across the success spectrum, with few finding just the right mix of factors enabling them to accomplish amazing things. National Vision, a long-time Protiviti client, is widely recognized…
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    Ring, Ring: Protecting Telephone-Based Payment Card Data
    Integrated Services Digital Networks (ISDN) and Public Switched Telephone Networks (PSTN) are no longer the primary transmission path for basic voice or telephone signaling. In fact, according to statistics within a 2018 report released by the Federal Communication Commission (FCC), the use of Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions has dominated the US market since 2016. Due to this changing technology…
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    Oracle ERP Cloud Users Take Note – Oracle’s Fusion (Cloud) 2018 Q4 SOC1 Issued with Auditor Opinion
    By now it is common knowledge that the 2018 Q4 System and Organizational Controls 1 (SOC 1) Type 2 issued for Oracle’s Cloud services came with a qualified opinion. In short, Oracle’s external auditor identified control deviations during their scheduled audit efforts which focused on the April 1 to September 30, 2018 timeframe. But what does that translate to for organizations who opted for…
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    Questions Swirl as California Department of Justice Prepares for CCPA
    What is important to the business community with the advent of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect on January 1, 2020? At a recent California Consumer Privacy Act rulemaking workshop held by the California Department of Justice (DOJ), the constant refrain from attendees was for the California Attorney General to offer clarity and guidance on the anticipated impact…
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    Keeping Pace with CCPA Developments
    Every week seems to introduce new developments with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) either from consumer concerns, business compliance and/or how the California Attorney General (AG) will handle enforcement. One notion is clear; companies must have an operationalized privacy program in place to demonstrate compliance. Doing nothing will give rise to risks of litigation and enforcement…
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    What’s Your SAP BI Strategy: BW on HANA, BW/4HANA or SAP HANA Enterprise?
    With the evolution of SAP HANA, Business Warehouse (BW) has undergone significant transformation. The addition of SAP HANA as the database layer enables better integration, vastly improved performance and better business outcomes. Companies that implemented BW before HANA and haven’t upgraded may experience challenges such as additional persistent layers, complex reconciliation issues, longer…
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    Coding for the Future: Why Protiviti Professionals Support Girls Who Code
    My name is Madelyn, I’m 24 years old, and I’m a professional software developer at Protiviti. I spend most of my days writing code to create new features for and fix bugs on clients’ web and mobile applications. I began programming during my second semester of college as part of an introductory engineering class. Until that point, no one in my life had suggested that I try computer science. I…
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    SAP Cloud Identity Access Governance: What’s Going On at SAPinsider
    The 2019 GRC, BI/Analytics and Finance SAPinsider Conferences took place in mid-March in Las Vegas. Our SAP teams spent time attending conference sessions, and their observations on what’s trending across the industry are compiled here in the first of a post-conference series. During the 2019 conference, I talked with a number of customers who were unsure how SAP Cloud Identity Access…
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