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    Looking Forward: SBOM to Improve Responsiveness For the Next Log4Shell
    What is Log4Shell? On December 10, 2021, a vulnerability known as Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) was disclosed, related to a popular Java logging library (log4j). Log4Shell gained a lot of attention due to how simple it is to exploit, how pervasive Log4j is, and the potential level of access it can provide. Within a few days of being released, many companies discovered vulnerabilities in their…
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    CISOs and Year Two of the Pandemic – How Did We Adapt and What Still Must Change?
    In December 2021, in my role as president of the ISSA Delaware Valley Chapter, I had the honor of hosting a panel with five Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs), representing five different industries, each facing unique challenges presented by the global COVID-19 pandemic. The panelists included: Robert Younce - CISO of Mannington Mills, one of the world's leading manufacturers of fine…
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    Vulnerability Management: We’ve Been Doing It All Wrong
    Vulnerability management is a discipline that many organizations struggle with due to one simple factor: complexity. Today, organizations manage environments with technology that changes at an ever-increasing speed while relying upon legacy systems to support key business processes. In response to this complexity challenge, cybersecurity professionals continue to create new vulnerability…
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    Making a Good Thing Better: Migrate SAP BusinessObjects Platform to the Cloud
    SAP Business Objects, often referred to within the SAP ecosystem as BOBJ, is one of the most evolved and reliable analytics and reporting engines running today. With over 60,000 BOBJ installations, the solution can be found in companies of all sizes in every industry around the world. Founded in 1990 and acquired by SAP in 2007, Business Objects is still primarily located in on-premise servers…
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    Harnessing the future: Protiviti’s research on AI adoption
    Due in large part to the rise of generative artificial intelligence (AI), organizations of all types and sizes are implementing, or considering adopting, AI for various business functions and activities — from accounting and finance to cybersecurity, customer experience and more.Protiviti has conducted several global research studies looking at the various ways enterprises are leveraging AI as…
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    FinOps for AI: How to Optimize AI Investments for Business Value
    This is Part 3 of our 4-part series on AI FinOps. Part 4 coming soon. In our first two articles, AI FinOps Starts with Enterprise Architecture and The Hidden AI Cost Problem: Lack of Visibility, we examined why enterprise architecture and AI spending visibility are foundational to successful AI FinOps. Yet visibility alone does not generate business value. Once organizations understand where AI…
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    What’s Your Equity Story? Going Public Will Either Reinforce It or Expose Its Cracks
    IPO readiness is not about checking a box, selecting bankers or rehearsing a polished roadshow. It is about proving that the company can withstand public-market scrutiny before the ticker symbol ever arrives. That can be an uncomfortable truth for growth companies considering going public. As regulatory relief continues to lower some barriers, the IPO market is ripe, and mega deals may be back…
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    Your Sales Transformation Problem Is Really a Seller Value Problem
    Sales transformation efforts often begin with a clear executive mandate: improve visibility, strengthen pipeline discipline, standardize processes and generate better commercial insight. Those outcomes matter, but they are not the outcomes sellers are optimizing for in their day-to-day work.  Sellers care about selling, serving customers, advancing opportunities and getting the support they…
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    From cost optimization to tenant value: Why sustainability matters in real estate
    Operating real estate is becoming more expensive, visible and competitive. In this dynamic environment, prioritizing sustainably in the building portfolio is more than a nice-to-have environmental initiative; it is a business strategy that can reduce costs, strengthen margins, enhance tenant experience and create important market differentiation. These benefits are measurable. According to the…
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    Status Quo Is the Risk: Operations Now Determines Private Equity Value
    This is the first entry in Protiviti’s five-part blog series on operational value creation.   For decades, private equity returns were driven by a familiar formula dependent on favorable financial market conditions, multiple expansion and accessible leverage. Today, the traditional methods of value creation have become an operational challenge.   As firms navigate higher…
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