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  • In Focus

    July 19, 2024
    SEC rebuked in SolarWinds decision. What does it mean?
    U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer has dismissed most of the charges made by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against software company and 2020 cyberattack victim SolarWinds and its chief information security officer (CISO), Tim Brown. In its original lawsuit, filed in October 2023, the SEC alleged that SolarWinds had defrauded investors by concealing security weaknesses in its…

  • June 30, 2023
    Metrics’ role in cyber transformation
    We’ve all heard the saying, “what gets measured gets done,” meaning that regular measurement and reporting helps to keep organisations focused on the information that matters. But with so many data points available to measure security, it is difficult to know where to begin. Security practitioners must constantly question what data they collect and why. Only by providing relevant measures can we…

  • Infographic

    June 3, 2024
    Infographic | SIFMA’s Quantum Dawn VII
    Quantum Dawn VII is the latest iteration of SIFMA's biannual cybersecurity exercise focused on the outage of a critical third-party service provider (CTP). The simulation and concluding survey found many financial institutions are already experienced with the loss of CTPs, with protocols established for managing the outage. With such outages increasingly commonplace and regulators holding firms…

  • April 19, 2024
    Six Reasons to Reconsider Cost Optimisation
    As senior executives face more pressure to respond to rising costs and eroding profit margins, CFOs can remind their colleagues that they have more cost-optimisation strategies than they might expect.Many business leaders reflexively reach for the headcount-reduction lever. This is understandable given the rising cost of labor and that downsizing and reducing year-end bonuses usually hits the…

  • July 31, 2023
    Building a ‘metaverse for good’ requires an ethical foundation
    Nina Jane Patel, Bloomberg's technology columnist, recently entered the metaverse environment Horizon Venues, a newly launched virtual-reality social platform, to have a look for herself. She found the virtual, extended, augmented and mixed reality, along with other Web 3.0 tools, engaging but also a little too real. She unfortunately experienced some “creepy” encounters that included groping,…

  • April 26, 2023
    COSO issues supplemental guidance on internal control over sustainability reporting – With examples
    Last Thursday, the Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) released interpretive guidance on how to effectively apply the 2013 Internal Control — Integrated Framework (ICIF) — which is currently applied to financial reporting — to sustainability reporting. The guidance results from a project approved by the COSO…

  • Newsletter

    September 20, 2024
    CFO Insights
    This month, delve into the 2024 Global Finance Trends Survey to discover the top priorities for 2025 and how CFOs are adapting to expanded roles and leveraging GenAI for strategic growth. Get exclusive insights at our must-attend webinar for finance leaders.

  • In Focus

    September 30, 2024
    Navigating AI for Healthcare: The Ideal Copilot
    The healthcare industry is facing unprecedented challenges, with varied causes. People are living longer, so demand for care continually increases, particularly for chronic diseases. There’s a shortage of skilled labor, and workloads are becoming unmanageable. Skilled workers are leaving the industry as burnout affects doctors, nurses and other clinicians. Administrative burdens often overwhelm…

  • July 14, 2023
    Smart contracts part 1: What is a smart contract?
    In recent years, there’s been considerable talk of blockchain and its use cases in the business world. While some of these topics have specific use cases – metaverse, decentralised finance, etc – there is one topic that underpins everything in the blockchain and decentralised space: smart contracts. Smart contracts are behind-the-scenes applications that route data, track changes and settle…

  • Whitepaper

    December 9, 2022
    Six Pillars to Optimise Your Cloud
    With digital transformation remaining a top priority for organisations across industries, business and IT leaders around the world continue to work toward optimising their value extraction of cloud-based technologies and infrastructure. While the myriad operational benefits may be well known, many businesses are learning that cloud optimisation is a process of maturation that occurs over time.…
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