Due diligence in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions does not only involve the financial aspects of the deal. Although often overlooked, information technology (IT) is also a critical part of the process. With industries’ growing implementation of various disruptive technologies such as analytics, artificial intelligence, and big data, IT due diligence has never been more relevant.
QA automation has been prevalent over decades in the Software Testing Industry, and it's continuing to mature to pace up with a wide variety of technologies, programming languages, and methodologies. While QA automation has helped enhance the test coverage, lower overall QA costs, and accelerate test cycles; however, we’ve only touched the tip of the iceberg.
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Data governance is a crucial tool to ensure proper management and protection of data assets within an organization. It establishes precise methods to standardize business procedures, creates clear internal rules for changing processes, helps ensure risk management and optimization, and supports compliance with privacy and security regulations.
Today’s businesses are significantly maximizing the potentials of cloud-based workforce mobility tools for improved productivity and more advanced workforce management. However, the increase of users, devices, and applications accessing outside the enterprise perimeter has resulted in a rise of cyberattacks and data breaches.
Digital supply chain is currently gaining prominent recognition due to its greater versatility as compared to traditional supply chains. Because cybersecurity risks and third-party attacks have skyrocketed at an alarming rate, more businesses now prefer the digital way. However, cyber-related supply chain threats are always almost impossible to prevent. As businesses seek to leverage the potentials of this growing tool, new challenges also start to emerge.
As the world develops and distributes safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19, the pharmaceutical industry is confronted with additional trade secrets protection challenges. Issues include the increased the burdens of protecting their assets, the immense level of R&D, the substantial impact of remote work, and COVID-related legal restrictions. Pharmaceutical companies must implement effective trade secrets protection strategies to manage threats amidst this crisis.
Today’s cyber-vulnerable digital environment continues to pose a plethora of security issues to organizations of all sizes. This underscores the importance of securing a reliable cybersecurity framework to prevent these increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks from compromising a business.
The number of data breach incidents has continuously ramped up at an alarming pace. As the digital world progresses, cybercriminals have found various ways to infiltrate confidential and sensitive business data, posing profound risks of business disruption, financial losses, and reputational damages. To mitigate these, businesses and their cybersecurity experts must ensure that their sensitive data are safeguarded. They must come up with data security measures and policies as well as cybersecurity assessment tools and strategies to avoid potential data breaches.
With today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, cyber threats and data breaches are becoming more sophisticated in terrorizing businesses and organizations of any size. Furthermore, the constantly changing data protection and privacy requirements and policies add up to the complexities and challenges for companies. Without an effective response plan, these threats and issues may pose risks that could significantly disrupt important operations.
Tax automation is not necessarily a new topic for global manufacturers. Over the years, many businesses within this sector have adopted scalable and affordable technology solutions enabling significantly improved accuracy in determination, filing and remittance.
In the U.S. and Canada, courts have designed the doctrine of obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) to prevent inventors from gaining an unjust extension of their patent rights by obtaining patent on the obvious variants of an invention.
Since its enactment last 2014, the Supreme Court's Alice decision has continuously raised the bar for patent eligibility. Software innovation went up and it has significantly altered the patentability of software, business methods, and e-commerce technologies. In addition, software patent litigations have also changed dramatically.
In January 2019, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a revised guidance to be used when evaluating subject matter eligibility and updated same in October 2019. The revised and updated guidelines primarily focus on patent eligibility procedures involving patent claims and applications. By providing new guidance in identifying whether a patent claim or patent application claim is directed to a judicial exception, it aims to bring better clarity and predictability to Step 2A of the Alice/Mayo test.
To keep businesses running efficiently even amid the COVID-19 crisis, different organizations shifted their operations to the "new normal" remote workforce environment. However, aside from the challenges of this sudden shift, the risks of cybersecurity attacks have also rapidly increased. Cyber threats have become more rampant, taking advantage of the situation and specifically targeting remote workers.
