Data and information management

The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, in two reports, critiqued the IRS on cybersecurity for both its data warehouse and its cloud infrastructure.

Oracle NetSuite announced major AI-related enhancements to numerous products across its product suite.

Tax targets; getting creative; one SALT workaround; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Schellman forms new advisory board; New partnership lets Xero users send data to Caseware; Fortanix announces full disc encryption; and other accounting technology stories.

The Internal Revenue Service and its partners have identified half a dozen steps for safeguarding taxpayer information.

It's time to change our outlook and embrace the advancements in performing SOC 2 audits to fully realize the incredible amount of value and competitive advantage the service can provide.

A new template for a 'Written Information Security Plan' is available for practitioners to meet their mandate.

The proposal, under the Financial Data and Transparency Act of 2022, will make financial data more accessible, uniform and useful to the public.

SafeSend announced the rebrand of SafeSend Suite to SafeSend One, which now features the new Next Gen Gather AI solution to help professionals gather client documents.

High-income backdown; Direct File collision; the vaping excise mess; and other highlights from our favorite tax bloggers.

Social engineering raises some serious questions about data protection and compliance of accounting firms.

A recent study looked at the impact of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation and found that firms lost some value but, at the same time, suffered fewer data breaches.

The Internal Revenue Service issued a warning to tax professionals to be on guard against the identity thieves who are targeting them and their clients.

Here's how to go beyond routine process automation and apply strategies that bolster efficiency, autonomy and value.

Plus, Solix Technologies touts enterprise-grade document management on a budget; and other accounting technology news.

There has been a revolution in data accessibility over the past 40 years, and it's creating major opportunities for accountants.

A coalition of accounting educators and tech leaders released a generative AI governance framework as a starting point for organizations.

After 500 internal penetration tests conducted from 2021-2023, RSM professionals found only 1.6% of organizations had no vulnerabilities at all. Most had around eight.

Automation has led to specialized solutions taking on more features to create powerful combos of capacities, but firms must also keep security in mind.