Is your company undergoing a legal compliance audit? Understanding the documents you need can be the first step in preparing for an audit. Most legal compliance audits evaluate multiple areas of your organization to ensure you’re following the laws and regulations for your business and industry. A legal compliance checklist typically includes areas such as:…
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For anybody in the business or financial industries, knowing the actual value of a company is paramount in order to make sound business or investment determinations. This is not only for the investor to make better decisions but also to give a more accurate overall view of a company’s financial worth and health. Not only…
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Ensuring that sensitive information in your company’s documents is secure and that it’s properly redacted is paramount. Owning the ability to share company documents while masking the data that must be kept confidential is an important asset for any company today, especially in light of recent data breaches and cyberattacks. Protecting sensitive data from those…
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When a business needs money to maintain operations and expand their business, they often need outside sources of capital. But where do they get this capital from, and what is the right way to raise capital? First off, let’s start with the two ways of raising capital: debt or equity. One is borrowing the money…
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Image courtesy of The Generator Judge By now, whether you believe in man-made climate change or not, the world is making major shifts from fossil fuels to renewable energy, and customers are making purchase decision (and even some governments are making investment decisions) on whether or not a certain company is being energy efficient. It’s…
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Whew! You just finished writing an important document in Microsoft Word — and you want to keep it private and secure. What can you do? Let’s have a look at four ways you can add security to your Word documents. You can choose one of these, or a combination of several, to add the most…
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Your company’s intellectual property (commonly referred to as “IP”), is an undeniably important asset. Though usually intangible, IP is commonly far more valuable than most of the other physical assets of your company. Therefore, knowing how to protect intellectual property is just as important (or more so) than locking your office and other facilities at…
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With so many people working remotely and deals that span across the globe more common than ever, organizations must rely on document security systems to keep mission-critical and classified information safe in the cloud. Effective document security systems mean that employees can access files from anywhere in the world and the IT staff and executive…
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What Level of Data Encryption Does Your Business Need? The reason why your business must encrypt its data isn’t a terribly hard concept to understand – the need to protect sensitive information speaks for itself. Cyberattacks and data breaches, like the ones we’ve all seen in the news, cancost a company millions of dollars, deteriorate…
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There are times when a merger seems like the ideal thing to do: you’ve launched a company, you’ve hit great heights, but you’re a crossroads where you’re not sure how exactly to expand–you’ve never been this big before, and you just don’t have the expertise and infrastructure to expand bigger than where you are. Or…
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