Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog April 6, 2018 The Countdown to May 11: FinCEN’s Customer Due Diligence Rule With the effective date of FinCEN’s Customer Due Diligence Rule, often referred to as the Beneficial Ownership Rule, just two months away, covered financial institutions (federally regulated banks and federally insured credit unions, mutual funds, brokers or dealers in securities, futures commission merchants, and introducing brokers in commodities) are – one hopes – putting the final touches on… Blog April 6, 2018 Women in Cybersecurity: A Vital Subset of the Women in Tech Movement At Protiviti, we are enthusiastically committed to a culture of diversity and inclusion. This commitment is an important priority for us, especially when we see the progress needed to advance women in technical fields such as cybersecurity. Women in tech has been a hot topic for companies, and lack of diversity is now considered a business risk, as our technology industry leader, Gordon Tucker,… Blog April 9, 2018 A Rose by Any Other Name...Is Still a Rose Gartner opened 2018 with a call for the market to shift its solution focus from governance, risk and compliance (GRC) to integrated risk management (IRM). We at Protiviti agree with the basic proposition that organizations today are focused on reducing business risk, and that they want flexible, open solutions that allow them to more easily adapt to a rapidly evolving external environment and the… Blog April 11, 2018 Financial Institutions Are Better Than Most at Bridging the Gap Between Procurement and Finance, But They Are Far From Perfect When Protiviti conducted a procurement survey, Bridging the Gap Between Finance and Procurement to Maximize Value, in 2017, the responses of organizations in the financial services industry (FSI) appeared to suggest that the industry has been the most successful among the industry groups represented in the survey at finding the balance between procurement and finance. On closer inspection,… Blog April 16, 2018 Three Fundamentals for Building a Solid Data Governance Program Time and again, we talk with clients who are neglecting perhaps the most important feature in a solid data strategy: data governance. With the explosion of data resulting from an increasing adoption of digital initiatives and the undeniable fact that we are now living in a data-driven world, it is more important than ever for organizations to recognize the importance of protecting data as a key… Blog April 17, 2018 New Security Threat Report by Protiviti Draws on Nine Years of Data, Offers a Road Map for Better Security Cybersecurity breaches of magnitude and consequences that used to be unthinkable a decade ago are happening with alarming regularity today. But while breaches have exploded in scope, the basic weaknesses that allow them to happen remain much the same and can be summed up in five categories — weak user provisioning, lack of employee awareness, a lag in patch management, ineffective system… Blog April 19, 2018 Making Fintech Fit — Banks Weigh Risks, Rewards of Fintech Forward-thinking banks are acquiring and partnering with fintech firms to survive and thrive in an increasingly tech-enabled marketplace. By adopting emerging technologies and enabling open APIs (application programming interfaces) to allow third parties to build applications and services around them — a concept known as open banking — banks are hoping to offer richer and more personalized… Blog April 20, 2018 Agile Risk Assessment: Reinventing RCSAs [caption id="attachment_5774" align="alignright" width="347"]Protiviti's Agile Risk Management Philosophy[/caption] Timely and accurate risk identification and assessment are critical to strategic decision-making. A risk and control self-assessment (RCSA) can be a practical tool for providing that information. Many organizations struggle, however, with the level of organizational resources… Blog April 23, 2018 Should All Energy Companies Be Planning for Blockchain? A quick Google search of “blockchain” and “oil and gas” predictably yields hundreds of thousands of results. Open some of these results and you will frequently see “Big Oil” and “BP” and “Shell.” As Big Oil represents only six of the thousands of energy companies, what does blockchain mean for everyone else? A dizzying number of new technology solutions are keeping companies across all… Blog April 24, 2018 Managing the New Currency: Developing a High-Performing Data Management Organization These days, the hot analogy in the analytics industry is that “data is the new oil.” Like oil, data must be found, extracted, refined and distributed. More companies are investing heavily in cutting-edge technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence and big data processing to help them harvest, groom and apply data to the correct use case for maximum value. So why, then, in the… Load More