Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Whitepaper May 7, 2020 COVID-19 Borrowing Options: A Primer for Franchisees and Other Small and Medium-Size Businesses Amid unprecedented economic disruption caused by COVID-19, small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) that are the backbone of the U.S. economy face intertwining choices and challenges in determining the best courses of action to preserve their operations and protect the financial well-being of their employees. While direct bank and market financing remain an option for some, most small and medium-… Newsletter April 14, 2025 Agentic AI: What It Is and Why Boards Should Care In 2024, generative artificial intelligence (AI) was all the rage. In 2025, agentic AI has surfaced as the next frontier of AI deployment. What is agentic AI, and why is it important for directors to understand how management intends to use it? Newsletter October 13, 2022 The ESG Debate: Where Does Your Company Stand? A University of Oxford and Protiviti global survey reports that North American companies are less committed to ESG than their counterparts in Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The questions are why this disparity exists, and where does your organization stand? Podcast Transcript June 8, 2023 Transcript | The Evolution of SOX: Tech Adoption and Cost Focus Amid Business Changes, Cyber and ESG Mandates In this episode, we dive into SOX compliance – specifically, the findings of and key takeaways from Protiviti’s latest Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Survey. The results of our research are featured in our just-released report, The Evolution of SOX: Tech Adoption and Cost Focus Amid Business Changes, Cyber and ESG Mandates.Offering their insights and perspectives are Protiviti Managing Directors… Podcast September 12, 2023 Podcast | The Evolution of SOX: Tech Adoption and Cost Focus Amid Business Changes, Cyber and ESG Mandates In this episode, we dive into SOX compliance – specifically, the findings of and key takeaways from Protiviti’s latest Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Survey. The results of our research are featured in our just-released report, The Evolution of SOX: Tech Adoption and Cost Focus Amid Business Changes, Cyber and ESG Mandates.Offering their insights and perspectives are Protiviti Managing Directors… In Focus August 28, 2024 NIST unveils post-quantum cryptography standards. What does it mean? Earlier this month, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) approved three post-quantum cryptography (PQC) standards that constitute the first significant steps towards protecting critical services from quantum computers being used to break the encryption of sensitive and classified information for both business and government. Whitepaper May 1, 2023 What Do the Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank Failures Mean for Bank Supervision? On April 28, four reports were issued on the failures of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank. These reports signal the next stage of what is likely to be a lengthy examination of the issues surrounding these failures and the actions that should be taken to prevent such events in the future. Podcast March 25, 2025 Podcast | Balancing Risk and Innovation: Building AI Centers of Excellence In this episode of Protiviti’s Legal Perspectives podcast, podcast host Chad Volkert discusses with Protiviti experts Bryan Throckmorton and Joel Wuesthoff about the complexities of AI risk management and the relatively new development of corporate AI centers of excellence (COEs). The conversation delves into the need for organizations to balance the opportunities presented by AI with the… Newsletter March 24, 2024 When Executives Stand in the Way — Create the Right Tone at the Top for Change In the race toward innovation and transformation, it can be easy for leadership to overlook their crucial role in driving change in the organization, including fostering vital new mindsets and behaviors.What you should know: Executive engagement is a critical component to enable change. It’s important to make the distinction that leaders and managers don’t “manage” change; they “enable” change.By… Podcast November 9, 2023 Podcast | Emerging Regulations in Tech: Understanding the Digital Services Act – with Kaitlin Kirkham-Cooper and Roxanne Miller As of August 25, 2023, large technology companies providing hosting services, online platforms and search engines, are required to put processes in place to be notified of illegal content and to act on notifications under the European Union’s Digital Services Act (DSA). Tech firms that do not meet a 45-million-user threshold have to comply with many of the DSA’s provisions beginning February 2024… Load More