Taking a forward-looking approach to cybersecurity is imperative for all organizations, especially the leaders and innovators of tomorrow. Cybersecurity is becoming an integral business imperative impacting financial performance and fueling tomorrow’s advances. As a result, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) must bridge between security and business to help organizations approach cybersecurity with a strategic lens and prioritize it at every step.

DFIN CISO, Dannie Combs, talks with Katie Kuehner-Hebert of StrategicCIO360 about how IT professionals can best protect their organizations. 

In a Q&A, they discuss risk management strategies, how organizations can get better visibility into their data, why managing identities is such an important part of an organization’s cybersecurity strategy, and the latest data regulations companies need to be aware of.

DFIN’s ongoing strategic transformation into a software solutions company remained on track in the third quarter, with record software solutions net sales of $73.2 million, a year-over-year increase of 5.3%, or 6.8% on an organic basis. This accounted for 40.7% of total net sales, up from 36.8% in the third quarter of 2022.

Preparing your company for an IPO (initial public offering) can be as strenuous, costly and time- consuming as founding the company.

You’ll need to allocate about 12 to 18 months for this process to allow enough time for due diligence, cross-team collaboration and completing all the necessary documentation.

The use of ChatGPT in corporate markets may have made headlines about the adoption of artificial intelligence, or AI. However, it's not the first AI tool to find widespread use in business applications. Businesses have been using AI assistants for years, particularly when it comes to large data sets. AI is more efficient than even the most diligent employee, capable of analysing large data sets quickly and with greater accuracy than a human.

Companies need a secure way to share financial reports, contracts and other important documents without the worry of information being accessed by the wrong party. A virtual data room meets the needs for security and privacy while offering many benefits for their users.

When you begin looking into virtual data rooms, one of the first things you may notice is the wide array of features on offer.

Life sciences, biotechnology, and pharmaceutical firms are pivotal in advancing medical research and revolutionizing the healthcare industry through innovations, developments, and research. In their pursuit of groundbreaking treatments, cures, and therapies, these firms handle, collaborate on, and regularly need to transmit a wealth of sensitive information — and need to do so securely and efficiently.

In his new SecurityInfoWatch article, Craig Clay discusses the exponential growth in cyberthreats and how a partnership between the CEO and CISO holds the key to defeating those threats. Working together, they can master two essential components of an effective cybersecurity strategy, data management and risk mitigation, to defend the company’s critical assets.

“Divest” is a common word. “Divestiture” is less familiar, and you may be wondering what it means. Discover the definition of “divestiture,” how to plan and execute different types of corporate divestitures, and the reasons for doing so.

What Is a Divestiture?

The more familiar word “divest” means to get rid of something. It's usually used in the context of investments, in which case it would mean to get rid of investments that are no longer wanted.

Sharing business documents containing sensitive information is an everyday task, and a critical one. But sharing them with external parties via unencrypted email or Dropbox can pose security or exposure risks that can have disastrous consequences. When security and speed are essential, investment banks, private equity firms, pharmaceutical companies, legal firms, healthcare, and government agencies rely on virtual data rooms (VDRs), such as DFIN’s Venue.