Procurement and Sourcing

True accountability for the security of cloud-based assets requires visibility into the events and behaviors that move into and through your cloud environment. Security today relies on visibility in several areas: networks, systems, storage and applications.

In this recorded webcast, SANS Analyst and cloud security expert Dave Shackleford explains how visibility in the cloud differs from more traditional security visibility and suggests how organizations can move toward establishing a cloud visibility strategy, using practical examples to illustrate the process.

Attendees will learn about:
- Types of visibility needed today
- Event data and information available in the cloud
- Cloud-native controls offered by services providers
- Third-party options to enhance monitoring and visibility strategies
- How to tie event monitoring, vulnerability scanning and control planes together to enhance visibility

Register for this webcast to be among the first to receive the associated whitepaper written by Dave Shackleford.

Speaker Bios

Dave Shackleford, a SANS analyst, instructor, course author, GIAC technical director and member of the board of directors for the SANS Technology Institute, is the founder and principal consultant with Voodoo Security. He has consulted with hundreds of organizations in the areas of security, regulatory compliance, and network architecture and engineering. A VMware vExpert, Dave has extensive experience designing and configuring secure virtualized infrastructures. He previously worked as chief security officer for Configuresoft and CTO for the Center for Internet Security.

David Aiken is a Solutions Architect Manager at AWS Marketplace and is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect. He leads a team of specialist SA's that help customers implement security and governance best practices. His skills include cloud computing, enterprise architecture, agile methodologies, web services, and software design and development.

The webinar explains how to balance customer verification measures with defending against attacks that can compromise customer data.

Watch this session for tips on seeing through common account takeover (ATO) tricks to improve fraud detection efficiency.

Ecommerce merchants spend significant time and money trying to optimize sales and the omnichannel shopping experience, only to harm revenue with conversion mistakes. This is especially the case in larger companies, as multiple stakeholders in separate departments often measure success differently. In this 30-minute webinar, held by Practical eCommerce & sponsored by Riskified, you will learn to:
* Appreciate the impact of false declines - What's the true cost of rejecting good customers from
fear of fraud?
* Stop turning away legitimate customers - Simple, actionable steps for merchants to approve
more good orders
* Optimize your automation measures - Learn which data to use in automated management
systems to boost accuracy.

SANS instructor Matt Bromiley explains and defines the various levels of compliance, outlines how risk management and compliance work together, and looks at existing gaps in implementation. The session then addresses how to automate compliance and risk management, including with cloud security controls, to help you answer questions such as: What is the provider’s role and what is the cloud user’s role? Why do you need risk management, and how do you use vulnerability monitoring?

Attendees will learn:
- When and how to implement compliance and risk management
- Effective strategies for compliance and risk management deployment
- Tips for what NOT to do when implementing cloud services with compliance and risk considerations


About the SANS presenter:
Matt Bromiley is a SANS Certified Digital Forensics and Incident Response instructor, teaching Advanced Digital Forensics, Incident Response, and Threat Hunting (FOR508) and Advanced Network Forensics: Threat Hunting, Analysis, and Incident Response (FOR572), and a GIAC Advisory Board member. His skills include disk, database, memory, and network forensics, as well as network security monitoring.

About the AWS presenter:
David Aiken is a Solutions Architect Manager at AWS covering AWS Marketplace, Service Catalog, Migration Services and Control Tower. He leads a team of specialist AWS SA’s that help customers implement security and governance best practices using native AWS Services and Partner products. He is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect and his skills include cloud computing, enterprise architecture, agile methodologies, web services, and software design and development.

*The views and opinions of the SANS Institute and their presenter, Matt Bromiley, are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the positions of AWS.

Meeting the ever-changing requirements of regulations is an increasing and costly challenge for all organizations in the Financial Services sector. All the while, customers demand faster transaction times and highly available information from financial institutions. Today, fax remains at the core of many Financial Services information exchange processes. Paperless digital fax solutions mitigate the compliance and security risks involved in document exchange, while driving customer service.



This webinar discusses how digital fax helps automate and integrate faxed content – and its data – with the applications that power business processes. Learn how a hybrid fax deployment, combining integrated on-premises fax software with the cloud for fast and scalable transmissions, decreases compliance risk, reduces transaction times and improves customer satisfaction – all in a single solution.

Join this webinar, led by experts from Cranfield School of Management to hear the results of the Q4 Global Supply Chain Risk Report.

The Global Supply Chain Risk Report is a joint study by Cranfield School of Management’s Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Dun & Bradstreet, which investigates the level of supply chain risk faced by European companies with international supplier relationships.

Analysis has been carried out using data supplied by Dun & Bradstreet, which included around 200,000 anonymous transactions between European buyers and their suppliers who were located in more than 150 countries worldwide.

During the webinar, we will focus on the Q4 2018 report, published in March 2019. We will cover the background, the key findings and practical implications for procurement professionals.

Register now to learn:

- The level of supply risk in Q4 2018
- The differences across key industry sectors and how this should be considered in procurement decisions
- How dependency on key suppliers changed compares with the previous quarter

Presented by Dr Heather Skipworth and Dr Emel Aktas, Cranfield School of Management

Currencies, like commodities, are impacted by numerous factors ranging from supply & demand to politics and economic growth. Brazil and Turkey were just two examples of major agriculture exporters that saw heavy currency fluctuations in 2018.

Led by Analysts George Duke, Corrina Hutchings, Alana Ribeiro, this webinar examines how continued political and economic uncertainty impacts currencies and the global commodity markets. We’ll be examining:

• How and why currency swings are linked to commodity volatility.
• The effect of international trade and how currency movements shift commodity trade.
• Our data-driven view on which agricultural commodities are experiencing the most currency-linked volatility.

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Cloud, telecom, & mobility costs overwhelmed unprepared IT teams in 2018 with unbudgeted surprises. To avoid these costs at a time when the need for IT is growing rapidly, Amalgam Insights provides 7 trends and recommendations to counteract these challenges.

In today’s digital economy, companies are competing for customers like never before as price and product are no longer the only drivers of business. The value of delivering an engaging customer experience is on the rise, and businesses are increasingly turning to software and digitized processes to accommodate this trend. In fact, 80 percent of businesses are either planning or formally engaged in digital transformation initiatives to improve their overall customer experience.

Join us to understand:

-The importance of Digital Transformation
-Why businesses must respond to the pace of change
-The tools for Digital Transformation success

Contract management is an area that is ripe for innovation and digital transformation. Often contracting processes are bureaucratic, burdensome, and a major source of delays. Yet new technological solutions are emerging quickly, affording the opportunity for AI to manage much of the process, while freeing up people—contract management staff—to focus on more strategic tasks.

Are you prepared for the pace of change?

Join us live to hear from IACCM President Tim Cummins and Conga Head of AI Jason Gabbard while they chat about:

-The essential documents and contracts to automate.
-Driving compliance across departments and increasing collaboration.
-Boosting efficiency by reducing errors with key AI technology and Machine Learning.

Agreements are often plagued by slow, costly processes due to a lack of automation. These disconnected steps require customers or employees to re-enter the information you already have, hinder the ability to get business done, and provide a poor user experience.

There is a better way: a modern System of Agreement.

The DocuSign System of Agreement Platform connects the world's No. 1 eSignature technology to every other aspect of the agreement process.

Discover all that’s possible, next, and new, with DocuSign during this webinar. We’ll give you the know-how, insights, and inspiration so you can:

•Prepare agreements with a high degree of automation
•Sign agreements quickly and securely
•Act on agreement terms after signing
•Manage agreements with flexible options

Our analysts share key insights and their 2019 outlook for major food commodity exports from across the Americas. This webinar will cover critical volatility and price drivers, including:

- REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS & POLITICAL EVENTS: from the very latest on the ongoing US-China Trade Talks to the appointment of Brazil’s new president Joao Bolsonaro.
- ANTICIPATED WEATHER CONDITIONS: looking at severe weather events in the region, such as El Nino, with a view to anticipating impact and identifying alternative sources of supply.
- CONSUMPTION TRENDS: increased focus on healthier nutrition, more sustainable/ethical sourcing and other shifting consumer expectations impacting demand.

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Automating the creation and distribution of your most commonly used and highest-value documents can help teams across your company achieve greater speed and efficiency, deliver a better customer experience, and improve business operations without additional resources or expense.

Join us to:

1. Discuss the importance of Digital Document Transformation.
2. Hear more use cases for Conga Composer and Conga Collaborate.
3. Start transforming your processes to generate more revenue and create business-critical efficiencies.

As companies seek to improve cash flow, achieve greater cash visibility, consolidate their bank relationships, increase straight through processing, and reduce bank fees and costs, treasurers are undertaking strategic digital transformations of their financial, IT and business operations. Part of that transformation should include an examination of whether their network connectivity is hampering the process.

In this webcast, OpenText will review its own treasury transformation journey and describe how, by leveraging the capabilities of its Business Network division, it was able to speed up its connectivity to banks and achieve higher STP rates and better cash visibility across its global banking system. We will review the challenges of corporate to bank integration and the solutions that OpenText can provide.

Featuring:

Mark Mixter, Financial Services Solutions Expert, OpenText Corporation
Jonathan A. Burkhead – Director of Global Treasury, OpenText Corporation
Trevor Jones - VP, Finance & Treasurer, OpenText Corporation

Effective contract management has many quantifiable benefits for companies. The return on investment can be remarkable, appearing on many levels across various departments.

At Conga we understand the importance of getting contract management right and we believe that all successful deployments share a common journey.

Join us as we discuss:

1. How to think big but act small - We know CLM can be overwhelming
2. Key Elements of CLM
3. Phased and iterative approach to Implementation (when to phase and a few considerations)
4. The difference between a successful and a failed implementation
5. CLM Maturity and it's affect on contracts

Let us show you how your business can realize it’s full potential by understanding and managing your current and future contracts.

Building a single, trusted view of suppliers remains a challenge for many organizations, especially when each team — such as procurement, supply chain, and supplier management — is often grappling with distinct, siloed systems and applications across departments, regions, and business units. By standardizing and automating workflows for onboarding and collaborating with suppliers, teams can not only improve efficiency and enhance supplier lifecycle management, performance, but reduce compliance risk.

Informatica MDM – Supplier 360 is a master-data fueled business solution that helps companies more efficiently collaborate with suppliers and improve their ability to assess compliance, performance and risk of their vendors by accessing a next-gen, 360-degree view of supplier data across the enterprise.

Join this webinar with demo to learn about the latest innovations of MDM - Supplier 360 Version 10.3., including:
- Increased usability for broker users accessing Product 360
- Enhanced look-and-feel for buyer-side view
- Extended localization support for eight languages
- Configuration of answer types for product-related questions
- Improved collaboration with task view access for Product 360

The end of the fiscal year is always a mad rush of activity as department heads hurry to push through projects, spend remaining budget, and finalize contracts before the year closes. Sales, procurement, and legal teams usually feel the brunt of the pressure, as they battle timewasting manual processes and piles of paperwork to squeeze in priority projects and revenue opportunities in under the wire.

Join Conga and Statera for a discussion about contract management pain points and best practices to remedy those pitfalls and put you on a path to efficiency for 2019.

In this session you’ll learn:

-Common pain points and pitfalls when it comes to contract management
-Best practices for the buying process and implementation
-Demo: MSA and NDA tips & tricks

In 2018, merchants had roughly 1.5% of their revenue consumed by false declines - legitimate orders that are rejected by merchants who either have strict rules in place, or are uncomfortable with one or more data points. So who are the people behind these false declines, and how can merchants start accepting more of their orders?
In this Webinar:
- Boost approval rates by learning to accept commonly declined order segments
- Protect brand reputation by improving customer service
- Bolster international growth by getting comfortable with international orders

This webinar will you help grow your revenue safely, find the most suitable markets, and protect yourself from fraud while expanding your business across borders.
- Grow your revenue safely: Learn how a simple change can grow your customer base
- Find the most suitable markets: Learn what geographies are the best fits for your business
- Protect yourself from fraud: See how risky behavior in one market can be safe in another

Software architecture, development, and operations patterns are changing with the increasing popularity of containers and related toolchains.

In this session you’ll learn how to package and deploy applications faster by finding third-party container products directly through the Amazon ECS Console and running them on AWS Container Services such as Amazon ECS, Amazon EKS, and AWS Fargate.

This session is intended for: Technical Audiences

A quick 2018 review & outlook for H1 for the top 5 inflationary raw materials in the UK food basket.

Ready to find out what lies ahead in 2019? Our analysts don’t have a crystal ball - instead they’ll tap into trends and dive into data to share insights on how the first half of the year might unfold for the agricultural sector. From changing global weather to regulatory considerations, tune in as we throwback to 2018 and assess:
• How key events which shaped the agricultural sector in 2018 might continue to unfold - and their potential impact on supply, demand
• What we anticipate to be 2019’s most influential price drivers, and our take on which direction they’ll move prices across key commodities.


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Corporate to bank channel connectivity is a critical enabler for digital businesses of all sizes and industries. Corporate channels act as the digital backbone and flexible integration layer between banks and corporates — delivering operational improvements, improving visibility, and enabling new services. With new payment formats, standards, industry bodies, and the need of today’s business to track payments in real time, this landscape is becoming increasingly complex and difficult for both banks and corporate IT to keep pace with.


To cope with the increasingly hybrid world of corporate to bank integration, banks must offer a full range of attended and unattended digital channels, tailored to a corporate’s specific business processes. It is also vital that banks deliver an omnichannel digital experience for business clients; one that meets each client’s unique business and technology requirements.


Join this session to uncover the latest trends in corporate to bank integration, its challenges, and the benefits of a hybrid approach. Learn how a top multinational bank leveraged a managed services approach to hybrid integration and rapid onboarding, turning a barrier into a competitive advantage.

Until now, many customers spent time creating or searching for the right algorithm and model when using Amazon SageMaker. In this session you’ll learn how to build machine learning applications even faster by finding curated algorithms and model packages in AWS Marketplace and deploying them directly on Amazon SageMaker.

This session is intended for: Technical Audiences

Join this webinar, led by experts from Cranfield School of Management to hear the results of the Q3 Global Supply Chain Risk Report.

The Global Supply Chain Risk Report is a joint study by Cranfield School of Management’s Centre for Logistics and Supply Chain Management and Dun & Bradstreet, which investigates the level of supply chain risk faced by European companies with international supplier relationships.

Analysis has been carried out using data supplied by Dun & Bradstreet, which included around 600,000 anonymous transactions between European buyers and their suppliers who were located in more than 150 countries worldwide.

During the webinar, we will focus on the Q3 2018 report, published in December 2018. We will cover the background, the key findings and practical implications for procurement professionals.

Register now to learn:

- The level of supply risk in Q3 2018
- The differences across key industry sectors and how this should be considered in procurement decisions
- How dependency on key suppliers changed compares with the previous quarter

Presented by Dr Heather Skipworth and Dr Emel Aktas, Cranfield School of Management

Register Now!