What's happening: HighRadius launches outcome‑based pricing for CFO platform
HighRadius introduced an Outcome Based Pricing (OBP) model for its Office of the CFO SaaS, removing upfront implementation and subscription fees and instead taking a share of verified financial gains once the solution is live. The approach follows a 24‑month controlled experiment that showed clear benefits when customers met mutually agreed success criteria.
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Resecurity disclosed that a recent breach claim was a honeypot trap, not a genuine data loss. The Scattered Lapsus$ Hunters (SLH) group boasted access to internal systems, but only interacted with synthetic accounts populated with fake consumer and payment records. Real employee data, client information, and production environments remained untouched. Resecurity’s DFIR team logged attacker IPs, used honeytrap Office 365 and VPN accounts, and shared the evidence with law enforcement.

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