One of the easiest ways to test any auditor’s or consultant’s skills, is to overwhelm them with massive amounts of data. Once I was leading an investigation team in a highly populated African country at a utility company, with over 12m customers. Our firm had been hired to examine the possible mispricing since new connections were increasing without a corresponding increase in revenue. The issue was to examine the possible causes of increasing new customer acquisitions against stagnating revenues, despite the absence of any promotions or discounts. Many times, the client also wants to know who is responsible and how…
Are you using data as a strategic resource?
What is your data strategy? Is it aligned with your corporate strategy? How do you plan to win with data? Every enterprise collects massive amounts of data daily. Yet over 90% continue to make decisions based on hearsay, opinion, and guesswork instead of data-driven insights. Wining companies now see data as a strategic asset that must be optimized and leveraged daily. Because over 80% of data in many companies is unstructured, winners make use of all the 20% structured data and the greatest extent of unstructured data. Whoever taps into the 80% unstructured data to inform decisions, gains a strategic…
Cybercrime on the surface web
There are three levels of internet. The normal web. The deep web. And the dark web. Normal internet users access the surface web. You type any website in the any browser like Google chrome, you will be accessing the website on the surface web. Figure 1: surface web page Websites of all legal companies operate at the surface web. Many of these sites use cache on their sites. This means they will collect some information from you when you visit the sites. The objective is to improve your experience while on their website. Read the full article here