Tax departments are evaluating technologies and process automation to unlock incremental strategic value. We’ll look at certain tax department state tax automations that have been implemented and ways to enhance their value proposition for both corporate and pass-through taxpayers. We’ll discuss: How to increase value by linking automated processes, integrating existing processes or tools, and automating around existing technologie...

A Practical Approach to Internal Controls The Green Book sets the standards for an effective internal control system for federal agencies and is a crucial safeguard over public resources. State, local, and quasi-governmental entities, as well as not-for-profit organizations, may adopt the new Green Book standards as a framework for an internal control system. This four hour CPE seminar provides an overview of the principles-based Green Book an...

4, ba Our approach for this in-person training event is to provide the relevant information which internal control professionals will need to fulfill the "Internal Control Life Cycle" using the "top-down, risk-based" approach. We provide the background knowledge sources, advice on how to conduct risk assessments, discuss scoping, and review how to plan the assessment of an internal control framework based on COSO. Risk management activities ar...

4, ba Cybersecurity is one of the biggest internal control areas that need executive attention. You just received an urgent call from the CEO. An e-mail was received demanding $10M Bitcoin to be paid as ransom to unencrypt the company's data. ​"Oh no! Maybe if we audited the organization's Cybersecurity program and controls before this happened, we might not be in this mess!" ​Sound familiar? Hundreds of Security, Compliance and Au...

This roundtable at the Columbus Virtual Forum is designed exclusively for CISOs and senior level information security executives to learn and share insights in a confidential setting. The curriculum will incorporate a blend of strategic content, workbook exercises, and peer discussion to help with long-term success as a leader. Session themes for the day include: Industry Developments Leadership IANS Faculty Briefing Career Development

Shared services is a business model for modernizing the delivery of mission support activities common to multiple government agencies. It involves setting standards for service delivery that meet the needs of multiple customer agencies and migrating agencies to modern, scalable and secure platforms operated by best of breed government or industry service providers. Managing organizational change and creating positive customer experiences are c...

The increasing pressure by hostile nation-states and other bad actors who are relentlessly probing the networks of federal, state and local governments underlines the importance of effective attack surface management. Government and military networks need to have comprehensive end-to-end discovery and management capabilities. This includes both their on-premises and cloud attack surfaces. Detecting unknown assets, unsanctioned connections, mis...

As more agencies adopt Atlassian services in the cloud, there are increased privacy and security risks, of which the public is acutely aware. For IT professionals, compliance with privacy and security standards is critical.The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), standardizes the approach to security assessment, authorization and monitoring for cloud products and services used by federal agencies to protect data in the...

Each of us knows that keeping pace with the ever-evolving government contracting compliance rules, regulations and oversight is daunting. The ongoing pandemic, a new administration, world instability and the ‘New Normal’ market conditions can challenge even the most seasoned government contractor executives. Join us in-person for our 27th Annual DHG Government Contracting Conference and hear what the leading advisors in the marketp...

What methods do you have in place to quickly identify, remediate, and validate remediations of vulnerabilities in your environment? Tanium and Carahsoft are excited to bring you a new series around effectively managing cyber risk within an enterprise. As a first step, in today's distributed enterprise environment, it is paramount that agencies have a scalable and robust vulnerability and compliance management they cant trust. Attend this webin...