Tech news: CohnReznick touts new digital forensics lab

Published August 30, 2024 9:00 AM

Updated August 30, 2024 9:19 AM

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CohnReznick touts new digital forensics lab; Crowe solution streamlines financial spreading process; Patriot Software releases new payroll, compliance tools; and other accounting tech news.

CohnReznick touts new digital forensics lab

CohnReznick office building in Miami

Top 25 firm CohnReznick announced that, as part of its expanding cybersecurity and incident response capabilities, it has opened a digital forensic lab facility outside of Washington, D.C. The lab will serve as the nerve center for a variety of incident response solutions to help businesses identify the nature and extent of a cyber incident, collect and preserve digital evidence, and put steps in place to safeguard against future cyber-attacks and breaches. The lab and team will help organizations that have been involved in a cyber incident gather and preserve digital evidence from devices and systems impacted by the incident; construct a timeline of events and identify the methods used by attackers; identify the root cause and nature of the incident; help the business comply with breach notification mandates and regulations; help recover lost or compromised data; and provide expert witness testimony if litigation is an outcome of the incident. The team will be led by CohnReznick advisory principal David Sun, who has 25 years of advanced cybersecurity and digital forensics experience.

Crowe solution streamlines financial spreading process

Crowe's booth at Financial Executives International's Current Financial Reporting Insights conference in New York

Top 25 firm Crowe unveiled its Crowe CX for Financial Spreading solution, which streamlines and automates the financial spreading process, using patented software to transform financial statements and tax returns into machine-readable files that are automatically imported into the solution after borrowers upload their statements into the accompanying portal. It is bundled with a managed service, where a Crowe team of spreading specialists handle any spreading exception. The new solution is part of the Crowe CX Lending Suite, a portfolio designed to automate and make more efficient the jobs to be done for lenders. The solutions have embedded customer relationship management capabilities enabled by Microsoft Dynamics 365.

Patriot Software releases new payroll, compliance tools

Atanas Bezov

Business solutions provider Patriot Software released an HR Center for payroll and HR software customers. Powered by HR compliance provider Miratech Mineral, the solution includes proactive federal, state and local compliance monitoring and HR tools, resources and templates. Patriot's payroll software customers will receive custom compliance alerts tailored to their specific business, location and industry. Patriot's HR software customers benefit from additional features like a smart handbook builder, salary calculator, HR documents and templates, an HR resource library, HR tools and webinars, a learning management system, and more. These new features come at no additional cost to users.

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