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    September 8, 2021
    Ransomware: Preventing an Attack and Responding to and Recovering From an Attack
    Ransomware attacks have been around for many years. In the past, cyber-threat actors would penetrate a company’s computer and network systems and obtain data with the objective of returning it upon payment. The demanded payments were usually smaller than the ransoms requested in recent incidents. Most of these incidents weren’t financially material, nor were they reported publicly. By contrast,…

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2024
    Engaging Internal Audit Stakeholders to Build the Base for Adoption — Understanding the Global Internal Audit Standards (Part 1 of 3)
    The final updated Global Internal Audit Standards (“Standards”) issued by The Institute of Internal Auditors become effective January 9, 2025. In this blog series, we introduce the key Standards updates, explore the impacts of the updates on the internal audit (IA) function, provide practical guidance for adopting the changes required for compliance and consider the opportunities to move beyond…

  • Insights paper

    September 22, 2023
    Sustainability and Private Markets: A Structured Approach to Value Creation
    The ESG regulatory landscape is starting to form: In the public markets worldwide, companies are trying to determine how to respond to and incorporate stringent sustainability-related disclosure requirements from the EU. Meanwhile, the International Sustainability Standards Board has completed its work on a set of voluntary standards for public companies globally. In the U.S., the SEC is poised…

  • Flash Report

    August 7, 2020
    Lease Auditing: An Untapped ROI Opportunity
    Identifying and Recovering Excessive Billings From Landlords Issue Is your landlord complying with the financial aspects of your lease? Commercial leases are often structured to include ambiguous and complex cost terminology aligning with the landlord’s financial interest. On top of a base rent payment, these leases often include subsequent expenses that vary year to year, such as common area…

  • Newsletter

    December 12, 2021
    Assessment Questions for Audit Committees to Consider
    (Offered in Conjunction With Protiviti’s The Bulletin, “Setting the 2022 Audit Committee Agenda”) As they self-assesses their performance periodically, audit committees may find useful the illustrative questions we have made available in our Assessment Questions for Audit Committees to Consider. Committee members should periodically assess the committee’s composition, charter and agenda focus in…

  • Blogs

    February 29, 2024
    From Conformance to Performance — Understanding the Global Internal Audit Standards (Part 3 of 3)
    The Institute of Internal Auditors (IIA) final updated Global Internal Audit Standards provide the opportunity for transformative change. The update requires the internal audit (IA) function to have a strategic plan aligned with the organisation’s strategy and defined performance objectives.

  • Blogs

    February 27, 2024
    Focusing on Impact Areas — Understanding the Global Internal Audit Standards Updates (Part 2 of 3)
    In Part 1 of this blog series, we stressed the importance of educating internal audit’s stakeholders and laying the groundwork for the change management needed to support the required collaboration for effective governance of the internal audit (IA) function. In this post, we summarise key areas of change most likely to impact your organisation, and we explore in further detail areas that will…

  • Newsletter

    April 17, 2020
    COVID-19: Paradigm Shift in the Boardroom (An Expanded Discussion)
    The discussion below is a more complete coverage, including examples, of the topic addressed in Issue 127 of Board Perspectives: Risk Oversight and on NACD/BoardTalk. The global COVID-19 pandemic is a different experience from other catastrophic events like the September 11, 2001 attacks and the 2007-2008 global financial crisis. It is spawning new thinking in all quarters, especially in…

  • Podcast

    October 27, 2023
    Emerging tech and the future of payments with Swift’s Head of Oceania, Suresh Rajalingam
    In this VISION by Protiviti interview, Protiviti Director Ruby Chen and Protiviti Senior Director Rupesh Mahto sit down with Swift’s Suresh Rajalingam, who heads up the Oceania region and a team covering 20 countries across the region. Rajalingam is a seasoned senior payments professional with over 22 years of business development experience in both the domestic and cross-border payments space.…

  • Whitepaper

    September 2, 2022
    Guide to business continuity & resilience
    Plan for the Unexpected. Build Resiliency. Instill your organisation with the advantage to endure company disruptions and consistently meet business goals with reduced financial, operational, cybersecurity, and efficiency losses. Assess your areas of risk and develop, enhance, as well as maintain plans to enable resilience, regardless of the circumstance.  Flashing back to 2020, the world was…
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