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Building a successful audit analytics program is like climbing a staircase. The staircase is a set of steps that consist of several items having increasing levels of maturity. The staircase steps not only help you build your program, but enable …… Continue reading The Analytic Staircase for Auditors
91 percent of organizations have not yet reached a transformational level of maturity in data and analytics, despite this area being a number one investment priority for CIOs in recent years, according to a worldwide survey of 196 organizations by Gart… Continue reading Data and analytics maturity: Most organizations should be doing better
Here’s the 5 things I’m hoping will change in 2018 regarding ACL. They are all related to each other and feed off each other… Interesting. One) The ACL Analytics user interface (UI) finds a good plastic surgeon. While I have crit… Continue reading 5 Things We Need from ACL in 2018
If you’ve every wondered what Audit Command Language (ACL) is, here’s a quick way to find out. ACL has provided a quick, one-page introduction to ACL. And I mean quick. It doesn’t explain a lot, but it gives you a … Continue rea… Continue reading Quick Introduction to ACL
A recent IIA article on building an analytics function in internal audit is dead wrong. At least on one major point, anyway. And it’s a big one. As the tombstone reads, this point is D.O.A (dead on arrival, or more … Continue reading →… Continue reading IIA Analytics Article Dead Wrong
A debate on this blog over analytics and the future of internal audit is heating up. A few readers, including our colleague across the sea, AuditMonkey, has dove in, and skyller and I have responded in kind. Well, not exactly. … Continue reading … Continue reading Analytics Blog Debate Heating Up
Databricks has made a name for itself as one of the most popular commercial services around the Apache Spark data analytics platform (which, not coincidentally, was started by the founders of Databricks). Now it’s coming to Microsoft’s Azure platform in the form of a preview of the imaginatively named “Azure Databricks.” Read More Continue reading Microsoft makes Databricks a first-party service on Azure
Yesterday’s revelation that Equifax’s credit report assistance Web page was spotted redirecting visitors to malware resulted in the company temporarily disabling the page and starting an investigation. Once the investigation was concluded, the company said that they didn’t get hacked. Instead, that the malicious script was part of the code of a third-party vendor that Equifax uses to collect website performance data. “Despite early media reports, Equifax can confirm that its systems were not compromised … More → Continue reading Compromised analytics provider made Equifax’s site point to malware
Microsoft has announced a new Azure (cloud) data security capability: confidential computing. Who’s it for? The capability allows companies to use the cloud even if they don’t completely trust the cloud service provider and administrators. Confidential computing is aimed at companies that need to safeguard very sensitive information (user data or company data/intellectual property), but still need to regularly analyze and use it. This can include, for example, financial companies who want to keep personal … More → Continue reading Microsoft Azure confidential computing keeps data in use secret
Dataiku, a French startup that helps data analysts communicate with data scientists to build more meaningful data applications, announced a significant funding round today. The company scored a $28 million Series B investment led by Battery Ventures with help from FirstMark, Serena Capital and Alven. Today’s money brings the total raised to almost $45 million. Its most recent priot round… Read More Continue reading Dataiku to enhance data tools with $28 million investment led by Battery Ventures