Active Cyber Named Workday Services Partner 

DALLAS, TEXAS, Oct. 25, 2022 – Active Cyber today announced that it has been named a Workday Services Partner. Workday (NASDAQ:WDAY) is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources. Currently, Active Cyber is a Workday Adaptive Planning Platinum Solution Provider. As a Workday Services Partner, Active Cyber will help customers successfully deploy Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), and Workday Adaptive Planning.  

Workday Financial Management, Workday HCM, and Workday Adaptive Planning support a full range of financial and people-based processes that help provide real-time operational visibility along with the speed and agility to plan for and adapt to business growth and change.  Leveraging current expertise with Workday Adaptive Planning, Active Cyber’s expanded partnership with Workday as a services partner will enable it to help organizations and their teams successfully drive digital transformations in the offices of the CFO and CHRO.  

“Finance, accounting, HR and operation teams are traditionally siloed. They’ve been struggling with ineffective tools that lack capability and drowning in spreadsheets. It’s time for a change, and Workday is the future,” said Steven Rogers, Founder & Managing Partner of Active Cyber. “We deeply understand the complexities our customers face in making critical decisions quickly. Workday provides the best software to plan scenarios with accuracy and make powerful data-driven decisions. We look forward to continue helping our customers scale and respond to the pace of change with the full suite of Workday’s capabilities.”    

About Active Cyber  

Active Cyber is a rapid growth cloud consultancy partnered with the top technology leaders to address the most demanding challenges organizations face today. We accomplish excellence with our award-winning portfolio of Cybersecurity, Enterprise Management & Planning, and Data Analytics partners. At our core, we provide advisory and first-class professional services to ingrain best practices, continuous adoption, and leading-edge transformation. Our proven engagement models yield high time-to-value and nurture growth for our customers through innovation. For more information about Active Cyber, visit https://activecyber.com/  

Media Contact:  
Yana Kolmakova  
info@activecyber.com  

Active Cyber Adds Cribl to Their Arsenal of Software Partners to Help Customers on Their Observability and Digital Transformation Journeys

DALLAS, May 4, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Active Cyber is expanding their current Cybersecurity practice by partnering with Cribl, a leader in enabling open observability. This new collaboration is the latest addition to Active Cyber’s roster of extraordinary partners in cybersecurity including Okta, Seczetta, Lacework and Microsoft. The partnership with Cribl further bolsters Active Cyber’s effort to support customers looking for innovative data management and security solutions. 

With data volumes growing larger every year in nearly every industry, companies continually need to onboard and analyze new sources of data to uncover critical insights to scale like competitive advantages, operational efficiencies, and improving the security posture of the organization. Cribl’s flagship product, Cribl Stream, is a vendor-agnostic observability pipeline that helps users process machine data in real time and deliver it to the analysis platforms of choice. Stream sits between the sources and destinations of observability data and allows users to route, filter, enrich, and redact data.

Founded in 2017, Cribl offers an observability suite that allows security and IT practitioners to explore data and uncover insights from decentralized applications, servers, network devices, and cybersecurity tools. This gives operations and security teams unprecedented visibility into what’s happening in increasingly complex infrastructure and cybersecurity environments. Their clients include TransUnion, NASA, JPL, Shutterfly and Autodesk. Cribl is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

As more companies inevitably embark on their digital transformation journeys with the assistance and support of Active Cyber and their team of experts, Cribl’s revolutionary observability suite enables customers to have greater choice and control over their growing data footprint.

“Cribl just makes sense for our customers,” adds Kishore Vankayalapati, Cybersecurity & Identity Practice Lead at Active Cyber. “We not only want to help companies transform but also reduce costs and optimize their data operations for scalability and the long-term. We are very excited to partner with Cribl to provide our clients a next-generation observability suite.”

“Enterprises today face an incredible set of challenges including digital transformation mandates, a deluge of data, sophisticated cyber attacks, and ongoing skills shortages,” said Zachary Kilpatrick, Vice President of Global Channels at Cribl. “We’re proud to work with Active Cyber to help customers not only overcome those challenges, but thrive, by unlocking the power of observability data to better understand business applications, improve the capabilities of advanced security analytics, and improve end user experiences.”

Active Cyber is recognized as a leading cloud consultancy firm and Platinum Implementation Partner for both Okta and Workday Adaptive Planning and is trusted by leading brands including Hulu, FOX, Nasdaq, and Circle K. Their award-winning portfolio of Cybersecurity, Financial Planning, Enterprise Planning and Data & Analytics partners provides world-class advisory services to instill best practices and leading-edge transformation.

To kick off the partnership, Active Cyber and Cribl will host a two-part webinar series “Why Cribl? Why Now?” including these topics: The Power of Stream (May 17), Cribl, Technical Talk and Use Cases (May 24).

If you’re a Cybersecurity architect, a SIEM consultant, an engineer or anyone in the cyber and data management industry who wants to take the reins on big data, you’ll want to join in. Learn more about the webinar series here and register now.

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Yana Kolmakova
214.764.2271
335565@email4pr.com

SecZetta And Active Cyber Announce Partnership to Help Organizations Increase Cyber Resilience Through Third-party Identity Risk Management

Authoritative source of identity data key to implementing zero-trust approach to identity

 

Fall River, MA. & Dallas, TX. May 17, 2022 – SecZetta, a leading provider of third-party identity risk solutions, today announced a new partnership with Active Cyber, a leading cloud consultancy, specializing in the implementation of Cloud-based Identity & Access Management (IAM) solutions. Active Cyber will resell the SecZetta Third-Party Identity Risk solution and provide consulting and implementation services to organizations seeking to implement a complete, zero-trust solution to their third-party non-employee challenges.

Organizations in almost every vertical industry are relying on growing and increasingly diverse numbers of third parties to provide the elasticity they need to quickly and cost-effectively respond to operational needs.  However, most organizations have no way to centrally track and manage their relationships with this ever-increasing number of non-employees or the access to enterprise assets they require. SecZetta closes a technology gap in third-party identity governance, providing third-party identity risk solutions that are easy to use and purpose-built to help organizations execute risk-based identity access and lifecycle strategies for third-party non-employee populations and provides the most value when used in conjunction with industry leading IGA solutions like Okta and SailPoint. Active Cyber delivers value throughout the sales and delivery process by consulting with and advising customers around a complete, zero-trust solution to their third-party challenges – one that includes SecZetta alongside these other industry-leading identity solutions.

“Organizations are investing heavily in cybersecurity programs to make them more resilient against cyber-incidents and enable them to detect attacks in a shorter timeframe to minimize the costs associated with breaches,” said Kishore Vankayalapati, CIAM Practice Leader, Active Cyber. “Not surprisingly, one area that’s gaining increased focus is third-party identity risk management, considering some notable breaches in the recent past used third-party partners as an entry point. The SecZetta solution enables organizations to manage non-employee identities throughout their lifecycle and provides a single source of truth with seamless integration into enterprise identity & access management systems such as Okta and SailPoint. We are very excited to partner with SecZetta to help our clients optimize and automate their third-party identity governance processes, improving their risk postures and increasing operational efficiencies.”

“Active Cyber’s expertise uniquely positions them to advise clients around a true zero-trust approach to identity, ensuring both internal and external workforce needs are met with respect to trusted, authoritative identity data that is essential for end-to-end identity governance,” said Jeremy Rohrs, SVP, global channel, alliances and corporate development, SecZetta. “Non-employee identity governance is critical to limiting the attack surface of organizations relying on third-party services. We look forward to collaborating with Active Cyber to empower customers to maximize their use of third-party resources to support their business needs by managing the identity lifecycle and risk of third-party users and strengthening their resilience to identity-related cyber incidents.”

About Active Cyber

Active Cyber is a rapid growth cloud consultancy partnered with the top technology leaders to address the most demanding challenges organizations face today. We accomplish excellence with our award-winning portfolio of Cybersecurity, Enterprise Planning and Data & Analytics partners.  At our core, we provide advisory and first-class professional services to ingrain best practices, continuous adoption and leading-edge transformation. Our proven engagement models yield high time-to-value and nurture growth for our customers through innovation. For more information about Active Cyber, visit https://activecyber.com/

 

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Workday Adaptive Planning with QuickBooks Desktop

Pull data to Workday Adaptive Planning from Quickbooks with ease, speed, and low cost.

From the simplest standpoint, what our SDK will allow you to do is to pull data directly into your Workday Adaptive Planning sheets on an automated cadence, or with the push of a single button. Increase speed of reporting and enhance planning by utilizing more data from your Quickbooks Desktop instance.

How excited would your administrators, planners, and analysts be with increased data, at a rapid speed for decision making, reporting, and creating visualizations in the planning platform they know and love? How happy would your Quickbooks Desktop and Workday Adaptive Planning administrators be if they could quickly and easily ensure timely and accurate data without having to build complex integrations, purchase another service, or go through the efforts of exporting data from one platform manually and then importing to another platform manually?

Technical Requirements: Virtual Machine – Preferably Linux, however Windows is also no problem. Please reach out to sales@activecyber.com today to learn more about taking advantage of this product!

Change Management

An organization’s ability to successfully manage change has become critical to maintaining a competitive edge in an era of rapid technological advancement and increasing global competition. A recent report on the frequency of change in the workplace suggests that as many as 375 million workers worldwide will face significant changes in their workplaces by 2030. Change – be it structural, strategic, or technical – comes with a myriad of challenges, ranging from ineffective communication and competing resource requirements to lack of buy-in and resistance among employees. A failure to plan for these challenges has led to a reported 70% failure rate in attempted organizational change over the past several years.

Change requires active planning and hands-on management before, during, and after implementation that focuses on building a long-term company culture of learning and innovation. Successful change in the workplace demands more than designing processes and handing them down to employees; instead, an organization’s aptitude for change is rooted in how well it is able identify and effectively mobilize agents of change and key stakeholders internally, mitigate risks and resistance, and continuously monitor performance.

Change Management shifts the concept of change away from a one-time, top-down order towards a collaborative process with lasting effects on company culture and an organization’s ability to seize new opportunities for growth and innovation. An effective and comprehensive Change Management strategy is vital for companies looking to not only keep pace with the innovation curve, but to become leaders of the curve through flexibility, communication, and adaptability.

Contact us today to learn how Active Cyber can help.

A Case Study: Using Workday Adaptive Planning for a Comprehensive View into Total Compensation and Corporate Bonuses

Company Overview:

A leading software-driven cloud networking solution provider for large data center storage and computing environments.

Problem:

The company’s sales employee compensation environment is strongly structured around a comprehensive portfolio of bonuses, equity, and stock options. In the existing Workday environment they had lots of information; however, HR lacked a planning model that showed compensation in 3 month, 6 month, and 12 month increments for forward looking compensation decision making. Lacking this visibility made calculating compensation packages a complicated and arduous task with very little ability to forecast different compensation scenarios.

Solution:

With Workday Adaptive Planning, Active Cyber and Core Team were able to build a forecasting environment which provided a comparative view of future total compensation visibility, catered to this company’s individual needs and taking into consideration equity and stock options as well as regular compensation. Through the power of Workday Adaptive Planning, Active Cyber also provided the ability to model this data over various lengths of time with very little effort. This change has streamlined and revolutionized HR and Finance’s ability to accurately and efficiently forecast total compensation with autonomy. With the success of this instance, this company also plans to have Active Cyber implement Workday Adaptive Planning for Finance.

It is important to note that this instance of Workday Adaptive Planning, developed and implemented by Active Cyber, is a landmark first of its kind solution: providing a comprehensive view into total compensation and corporate bonus modeling. Active Cyber continually strives to stay ahead of the curve and developing innovative uses cases such as these to meet each customer’s unique needs and increase the ROI of a Workday Adaptive Planning purchase.