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Cybersecurity
The Cloud, Cybersecurity, And Cloud Cyber Governance: What Every Director Needs To Know
There are four competing business propositions affecting most American businesses today. Think of them as four freight trains on different tracks headed for a four-way stop signal at fiber-optic speed. First, with a significant potential for cost savings, American business has adopted cloud...
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Cybersecurity, Cyber Governance, And Cyber Insurance: What Every Public Company Director Needs To Know
The number, severity, and sophistication of cyber attacks – whether on our retail economy, our healthcare sector, our educational sector or, in fact, our government and defense systems – grows worse by the day.[1] Among the most notable cyber breaches in the public company sphere...
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More Than A Machine: “Robocop” Stole The Headlines, But The Financial Reporting And Audit Task Force Is The Real Driver Behind The SEC’s Refocus On Accounting Irregularities
On July 2, 2013, the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC) announced two new initiatives aimed at preventing and detecting improper or fraudulent financial reporting.[1] We previously noted that one of these initiatives, a computer-based tool called the Accounting Quality...
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