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Insights & Resources • Filed under As cybersecurity risks grow more sophisticated and organizations face mounting pressure to prove resilience, frameworks like HITRUST are evolving to deliver more than just compliance; they’re building stronger, smarter systems. The newly released 2025 HITRUST Trust Report highlights that shift, offering a roadmap for organizations that want to move…

Insights & Resources • Filed under Scaling a business is an exciting milestone, but if finance leaders don’t manage it properly, rapid growth can strain cash flow, disrupt operations and create compliance risks. The CFO’s role is to ensure that growth is not just fast, but sustainable. This means building a financial infrastructure that supports…

Insights & Resources • Filed under State and local tax laws are constantly evolving, creating challenges for businesses trying to stay compliant. The SALT Brief is a regularly updated resource that highlights key legislative changes, regulatory updates and policy shifts across the US. Table of Contents June 2025 Key Updates Alabama Tax years beginning on…

Insights & Resources • Filed under The IRS has announced its intention to remove the controversial partnership basis-shifting regulations that just took effect on January 14, 2025. The result will be that partnership basis adjustments involving related parties and identified as potentially abusive will no longer be treated as “covered transactions” subject to disallowance rules….

Insights & Resources • Filed under On May 12, 2025, the House Ways and Means Committee released updated text on the proposed tax legislation for “The One, Big, Beautiful Bill.” Many substantive changes have been proposed, including amendments to Section 174. As amended by the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (TCJA), Section 174…

Insights & Resources • Filed under The State of Georgia enacted two tax bills during the 2025 session that accelerate the planned reduction in the state income tax and add a new “tax credit” for taxpayers who filed returns in both 2023 and 2024. Notably, both bills were signed into law by Governor Kemp on…

Insights & Resources • Filed under As we settle into 2025, the cyber threat landscape has grown not just more sophisticated, but more interconnected. The latest Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR) paints a complex picture, revealing that data breaches are no longer just a product of internal failings or direct hacks. Increasingly, third-party vulnerabilities, automation and organizational…

Insights & Resources • Filed under In July 2023, Oregon introduced a research and development (R&D) tax credit specifically aimed at supporting the semiconductor industry. Effective January 1, 2024, this incentive is available to qualifying companies conducting semiconductor research within the state and will remain in place through January 1, 2030. This development marks the…

Insights & Resources • Filed under Access reviews can be difficult to coordinate and manage, consume significant time for all parties involved, and occasionally not be executed at all. However, access reviews are a critical control across many compliance frameworks, including SOX, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2, HITRUST, NIST 800-53 &171, HIPAA, GDPR and more….

Insights & Resources • Filed under Technology companies who sell access to software or platforms via the Internet such as software-as-a-service (SaaS), platform-as-a-service (PaaS) or infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS)) are generally on the cutting edge of business and have become intertwined with almost every industry. As a result, most technology companies have customers across the United States….