Business and IT Consulting
AI Risks: Establishing Workplace Guidelines
AI is rapidly changing the way we work, with AI-powered tools now in use by employees and contractors to manage tasks, retrieve data, brainstorm, and identify fraud. They have been adopted by HR to recruit and screen talent, by sales to provide customer support, by finance to analyze volumes of data and forecast future performance, […]
October Designated National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
October kicks off National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM), which is dedicated to raising public awareness on the importance of cybersecurity. Launched in 2004 by the U.S. federal government, NCSAM aims to encourage businesses and individuals to investigate potential risk along with strategies to improve the security of critical infrastructure. Where To Start The threat landscape […]
FQHCs Prepare for National Cybersecurity Awareness Month
FQHCs are faced with an ever-shifting cybersecurity landscape due to emerging technologies and shifting internal and cloud vulnerabilities. Adding to this are regulations designed to keep pace as well as the data (health and personally identifiable) that live through their systems. The U.S. federal government has designated October as National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM). AAFCPAs […]
Is tech sprawl hurting your business?
Technology is designed to make our lives easier with real-time insights, analytics, and collaboration and communication tools. This is instrumental in managing on-site teams as well as today’s remote and hybrid workforce. But how much is too much? In an attempt to support various preferences, many companies have become weighed down with too many SaaS […]
Unveiling the Power of RPA: Success Stories and Use Cases
During AAFCPAs’ recent Nonprofit Seminar (April 2023), Vassilis Kontoglis, Partner, Analytics, Robotic Process Automation & IT Security, briefed more than 400 attendees on the indisputable benefits of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) while offering a few real world case examples. The full session was recorded and may be viewed as a webcast at your convenience. >> […]
Cyrillic Characters Used in Cyber Attacks
Recent reports show hackers substituting Roman alphabet with Cyrillic alphabet characters to deceive recipients. In their article “Real or Imposter? Everything You Need to Know About ‘Homoglyph’ Phishing”, CISO MAG describes this tactic, known as The Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) homoglyph attack, as “a deception technique that uses homoglyphs or homographs, in which an attacker […]
SOC Report 2022 Revised Points of Focus
In late 2022, the AICPA updated its guidance on performing System and Organization Controls (SOC) attestations with revised points of focus that offer enhanced context for meeting the criteria in your report. Organizations and their auditors should be aware of the updates and go through an exercise to actively incorporate these revised points of focus […]
Understanding the Risks: How Tech Sprawl Compromises Nonprofit Grants Management
Many nonprofits flourish or flounder by their ability to successfully manage grants, and there are lots of components to success, which vary based on the nonprofit, the nature of each grant, and the requirements set forth by the grantor. Technology has come a long way in helping teams keep everything organized. But, as your organization […]
Effective Strategies for Streamlining Employee Time Off: A Guide to Process Improvements
As employees use the summer to take time off, managers are charged with juggling coverage. Meanwhile colleagues struggle to assume new roles and responsibilities if only on a temporary basis. Even the most adept can find this challenging. What if, as opposed to business as usual, we took a step back and approached coverage as […]