Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blogs January 31, 2024 Capabilities, limitations of Microsoft’s native SoD tool Segregation of duties (SoD) is a well-known term among auditors and anyone who has ever been audited. SoD is the understanding that no user should have access to two conflicting business functions that would allow a user to commit fraud or error (e.g., the ability to create a vendor record, then process a payment to that vendor). The idea can be intimidating and overwhelming to those who do not… Client Story September 14, 2023 Organisational Changes Drive Seamless Transformation of Back-Office Processes to Propel Business Strategy Protiviti partnered with leading technology company to assess, redesign, and standardise procurement, accounting, and finance functions. The company’s overall goal was to eliminate manual and disparate back-office processes to create capacity for strategic and growth objectives. Client Story April 5, 2024 Seamless NetSuite Migration Optimises Operations A leading fundraising and branding organisation offering agency, data processing, and digital and media services was seeking a partner to facilitate the transition to NetSuite as the system of record for its operation. Whitepaper March 11, 2024 Healthcare IA Benchmarking Internal audit (IA) functions continue to undergo significant changes ranging from the expanded use of emerging technologies, including robust data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI), and options on where their people work (i.e., remote, hybrid or onsite). IA functions within healthcare organizations have continued to evolve and adapt— some faster than others. Keep the pace by comparing… Blogs June 30, 2023 Metrics’ role in cyber transformation We’ve all heard the saying, “what gets measured gets done,” meaning that regular measurement and reporting helps to keep organisations focused on the information that matters. But with so many data points available to measure security, it is difficult to know where to begin. Security practitioners must constantly question what data they collect and why. Only by providing relevant measures can we… In Focus July 19, 2024 SEC rebuked in SolarWinds decision. What does it mean? U.S. District Judge Paul Engelmayer has dismissed most of the charges made by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) against software company and 2020 cyberattack victim SolarWinds and its chief information security officer (CISO), Tim Brown. In its original lawsuit, filed in October 2023, the SEC alleged that SolarWinds had defrauded investors by concealing security weaknesses in its… Infographic June 3, 2024 Infographic | SIFMA’s Quantum Dawn VII Quantum Dawn VII is the latest iteration of SIFMA's biannual cybersecurity exercise focused on the outage of a critical third-party service provider (CTP). The simulation and concluding survey found many financial institutions are already experienced with the loss of CTPs, with protocols established for managing the outage. With such outages increasingly commonplace and regulators holding firms… Blogs April 19, 2024 Six Reasons to Reconsider Cost Optimisation As senior executives face more pressure to respond to rising costs and eroding profit margins, CFOs can remind their colleagues that they have more cost-optimisation strategies than they might expect.Many business leaders reflexively reach for the headcount-reduction lever. This is understandable given the rising cost of labor and that downsizing and reducing year-end bonuses usually hits the… Blogs May 5, 2023 Creating a resilient cybersecurity strategy: The governance lifecycle approach Cybersecurity governance should do more than manage cyber risk. Good cybersecurity governance creates efficiencies by clarifying the outcomes expected from its processes and establishing boundaries of responsibility among cybersecurity practitioners, frontline operational areas, senior leaders and board members. Recently, numerous crises have drawn senior leaders and board members down… Blogs January 31, 2024 Navigating the GenAI course with Microsoft Copilot Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is a hot topic these days, and not just in the IT world. The statistics indicate off-the-charts interest in GenAI’s capabilities, with AI spending predicted to more than double to $300 billion by 2026. Organisations are gearing up, determining how to best incorporate GenAI to significantly enhance their customer relations, revenue growth, cost… Load More