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With record demand for can­di­dates with niche skills, employ­ers are find­ing it increas­ing­ly dif­fi­cult to dif­fer­en­ti­ate them­selves in a com­pet­i­tive job mar­ket. The stakes are high.

Com­pa­nies are under pres­sure to meet objec­tives, yet the com­pe­ti­tion for job seek­ers— espe­cial­ly those with niche skills for new jobs — is grow­ing. In this com­pet­i­tive labour mar­ket, your best chance to stand out to skilled tal­ent is with your com­pa­ny sto­ry. In fact, 97% of employ­ers in India agree that the biggest advan­tage of a strong employ­er brand is the abil­i­ty to attract and retain talent.

Read on for ways to max­imise your company’s poten­tial and empow­er can­di­dates to make informed decisions.

Cyber­crime is ram­pant and cyber­crim­i­nals are rak­ing in bil­lions. The inter­net is full of shady forums, mar­ket­places and com­mu­ni­ties where bad actions con­gre­gate and under­ground dig­i­tal economies thrive. As enter­pris­es accel­er­ate their dig­i­tal trans­for­ma­tion ini­tia­tives, adver­saries are prob­ing for oppor­tu­ni­ties to steal your data, exploit your brand and scam your customers.

As a secu­ri­ty leader, you need to take a proac­tive approach to iden­ti­fy­ing and mit­i­gat­ing these threats – but reg­u­lar­ly tak­ing the pulse on the vast and dynam­ic under­ground web can be a daunt­ing proposition.

Down­load the white paper to learn about:

• Proac­tive­ly uncov­er­ing fraud, data breach­es, and phish­ing campaigns
• Dif­fer­ences between the open, deep, and dark web
• Com­mon real-world adver­sary tactics
• CrowdStrike’s dig­i­tal risk mon­i­tor­ing solution

Today’s attack­ers are more sophis­ti­cat­ed, bet­ter organ­ised, and bet­ter financed than ever. This can be seen in the grow­ing num­ber of threats, such as advanced per­sis­tent attacks, ran­somware, and wiper threats — often facil­i­tat­ed by the rise of Crime-as-a-Ser­vice (CaaS). Not to men­tion new loom­ing con­cerns, such as the weapon­i­sa­tion of arti­fi­cial intel­li­gence (AI).

Along with this rapid­ly chang­ing land­scape in dig­i­tal secu­ri­ty comes the real­i­sa­tion that net­work secu­ri­ty tools, espe­cial­ly fire­walls, can’t work in iso­la­tion. Instead, they must work togeth­er, form­ing what is being called a hybrid mesh fire­wall (HMF). A uni­fied secu­ri­ty plat­form pro­vid­ing coor­di­nat­ed pro­tec­tion to mul­ti­ple areas of enter­prise IT.

Down­load this whitepa­per to learn how Fortinet For­ti­Gate Next-Gen­er­a­tion Fire­walls are designed from the ground up to sup­port your HMF infra­struc­ture and serve as the core of your organisation’s secu­ri­ty fabric.

CTO Fire­side Chat: Exam­ine the Tech­nol­o­gy Needs of Front­line, Hybrid and Remote Work­ers. Today’s dis­trib­uted work­force demands per­for­mance and flex­i­bil­i­ty from mod­ern IT infra­struc­tures, regard­less of loca­tion or use case. In this fire­side chat, End User Com­put­ing CTO, Shawn Bass, exam­ines the three emerg­ing pro­files that have come out of the dis­trib­uted work envi­ron­ment and how VMware enables com­pa­nies to accom­plish their goals through new tech­nol­o­gy. Learn how to iden­ti­fy each pro­file by their tech­nol­o­gy require­ments and how VMware Any­where Work­space is help­ing front­line, hybrid and remote orga­ni­za­tions around the world achieve their end user com­put­ing goals for each of these profiles.

Learn how your peers approach strate­gic busi­ness partnerships.

In today’s rapid­ly chang­ing world, strate­gic part­ner­ships trans­late into mutu­al­ly ben­e­fi­cial rela­tion­ships and bet­ter busi­ness outcomes.

This FSN report cov­ers the find­ings of a sur­vey of 444 senior finance lead­ers, strate­gies on how to more effec­tive­ly part­ner with oth­er teams and busi­ness lead­ers, and ways to help busi­ness part­ners be cat­a­lysts for change.

Devel­op­ing a col­lab­o­ra­tive, agile work­force is the sin­gle most impor­tant con­cern to many employ­ers these days, because it’s a means of ensur­ing organ­i­sa­tion health and com­pet­i­tive­ness. As they face the chal­lenges pre­sent­ed by recent world­wide busi­ness dis­rup­tions, employ­ers are now wrestling with how to pre­pare for a new, more flex­i­ble work mod­el in terms of where and how employ­ees work.

This means redesigned work­places, new tech­nolo­gies, and con­tin­ued or new sup­port for col­lab­o­ra­tion between local and remote employ­ees. The fact is, infor­ma­tion work­ers crave mod­ern tools, and this paper shows how these tech­nolo­gies can lead to increased pro­duc­tiv­i­ty, faster inno­va­tion, and a more engaged workforce.

The role of the finance team and CFO are no longer just about con­trol­ling the busi­ness. Instead, they’re about help­ing to set direc­tion and empow­er­ing the busi­ness to suc­ceed. This is essen­tial in today’s mar­ket of rapid­ly chang­ing con­di­tions. To be suc­cess­ful, you need to enable the work­force to adapt and react to change.

Pleo have spo­ken to five finance lead­ers who know all about the inter­sec­tion between steer­ing the busi­ness and enabling suc­cess — two things that can co-exist in uni­ty. From how to set up the right con­trols, tools and process­es; to stay­ing in bud­get; com­mu­ni­cat­ing effec­tive­ly and man­ag­ing risk effi­cient­ly. Pleo has got you covered.

This eBook is your com­plete guide to the new way of finance — packed with action­able insights and top tips to help you nav­i­gate your busi­ness’ finances, no mat­ter your growth stage or the cur­rent state of the eco­nom­ic market.

Ran­somware has emerged as a per­va­sive threat to man­u­fac­tur­ing oper­a­tions. It can cause plant down­time, and tar­get­ed attacks have always tak­en down mul­ti­ple plants at once, so attack­ers were able to extort high ran­som pay­ments. Man­u­fac­tur­ing is one of the most tar­get­ed indus­tries, and attacks suc­ceed­ed even when virus pro­tec­tion soft­ware and fire­walls were in place, such as those rec­om­mend­ed in the IEC 62443 standards.

There is no sil­ver bul­let that can pro­vide com­plete pro­tec­tion. How­ev­er, to mit­i­gate the risks, man­u­fac­tur­ing organ­i­sa­tions should work with indus­try secu­ri­ty experts to cre­ate effec­tive cyber­se­cu­ri­ty plans to mit­i­gate the risks. Con­tin­ue read­ing for a detailed break­down of the roadmap to ran­somware resilience.

Invest­ing in tech­nol­o­gy will be a pri­ma­ry pri­or­i­ty for future-focused com­pa­nies in 2023. Legal teams seek tech­nol­o­gy that pro­vide com­pre­hen­sive yet sim­ple automa­tion fea­tures to help them sup­port their peo­ple and move projects for­ward. The right automa­tion solu­tions can improve effi­cien­cy, mod­ern­ize oper­a­tions, min­i­mize errors, and assist in meet­ing the data secu­ri­ty and gov­er­nance require­ments of com­pli­cat­ed tasks.

Read this arti­cle to learn about the five key ways that automa­tion is trans­form­ing the land­scape of legal work.

When Meta com­mis­sioned an online study ask­ing 300 mar­ket­ing lead­ers about their views on busi­ness mes­sag­ing solu­tions, we made sure to ask respon­dents about the biggest chal­lenges they felt they’d face inte­grat­ing such a plat­form. Below, Meta address some of the more wide­ly-held mis­con­cep­tions iden­ti­fied in the study, and pro­vide data to address those concerns.

The chem­i­cal indus­try’s earn­ings sea­son is end­ing with a sig­nif­i­cant down­turn in expec­ta­tions for Q2 and beyond. Com­pa­nies are prepar­ing for less opti­mistic earn­ings and guid­ance com­pared to ear­li­er in 2023. What’s note­wor­thy is the wide range of com­pa­nies, from com­modi­ties to con­sumer-dri­ven spe­cial­ties and ag chem­i­cals, expe­ri­enc­ing down­ward revi­sions. Ger­many-based Evonik and US-based FMC are among the lat­est com­pa­nies issu­ing warn­ings about their earnings.

Down­load this whitepa­per to get an insight into the lat­est earn­ings warn­ings sea­son and learn more about the new real­i­ty the chem­i­cal indus­try finds itself in.

Unfore­seen events such as the pan­dem­ic, infla­tion and geopo­lit­i­cal ten­sions have exposed the fragili­ty of glob­al trade. The cost of ship­ping has increased expo­nen­tial­ly, and at the same time the fre­quen­cy of jour­neys and the num­ber of routes is dra­mat­i­cal­ly reduced, due to the pri­ori­ti­sa­tion of large trad­ing economies and iso­la­tion of devel­op­ing ones.

The exist­ing sup­ply chain that was con­nect­ing elec­tron­ic mak­ers in Asia, nat­ur­al resources in Africa or food pro­duc­ers from Latin Amer­i­ca has proven to be more frag­ile than expect­ed mak­ing the over­all logis­tics chal­leng­ing and expensive.

The World Logis­tics Pass­port (WLP) aims to solve these issues and facil­i­tate inter­na­tion­al trade by stream­lin­ing and sim­pli­fy­ing the logis­tics process­es involved in the sup­ply chain.

View this report to find out more about the WLP initiative.