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    January 9, 2019
    What Will 2019 Bring in Cybersecurity? Focus on Processes, Communication and Compliance, CISOs Say
    The coming year in cybersecurity will be less about new cyber defense tools and more about education, compliance and process maturity. On December 14, 2018, I had the pleasure to moderate a chief information security officer (CISO) panel discussion at the winter meeting of the Delaware Valley chapter of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).  Four CISOs from leading…
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    January 10, 2019
    Getting Operational Resilience Right – Six Key Action Points
    The operating environment for financial firms has changed significantly in recent years. IT outages and cyber attacks – some of which have been very high profile – as well as increasing reliance on third parties through outsourcing and offshoring arrangements are transforming the risk environment and presenting significant risks of harm to customers and the stability of markets. As a result,…
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    January 14, 2019
    Financial Services Regulators Focusing on Cyber Resilience
    Cyber resilience has become the latest concern for regulators around the world, as massively disruptive attacks such as NotPetya and WannaCry brought into the forefront the vulnerability of interconnected systems. Cyber resilience was also a key theme of the Financial Services Information-Sharing and Analysis Center Fall Summit in Chicago last November. In addition, regulators have released…
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    January 16, 2019
    Finance Transformation: Change Management and Overcoming Resistance
    As more companies tackle transformation, finance organizations, as scorekeepers, need to make sure they stay ahead of the change curve. The use of data and technology is often the first way finance looks to add strategic value to the company, but the key to success may actually lie in how effective finance leaders are at selling the change to the people doing that work. To be clear, we’re not…
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    January 22, 2019
    Top Risks 2019: CFOs Focus on People and Technology
    Chief financial officers (CFOs), by virtue of their role as strategic and financial managers and scorekeepers, are in a unique position to view corporate risks across the enterprise. It is therefore useful to understand the concerns behind CFOs’ responses to the latest Top Risk Survey from the N.C. State University Enterprise Risk Management Initiative and Protiviti. Most CFOs tend to be…
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    January 23, 2019
    Podcast: The Responsible Technology Firm of the Future
    Technology firms are having an unprecedented influence over our lives and their reach has extended across the globe like never before. As a result, the level of regulatory scrutiny of these tech giants has increased dramatically as well. In the podcast below, Protiviti leaders discuss the changing regulatory landscape technology firms are facing today and the need to balance regulatory concerns,…
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    January 24, 2019
    Setting the 2019 Audit Committee Agenda
    Boards today – especially audit committees – are expected to develop and maintain a thorough understanding of business risks and ask the tough questions to ensure that critical risks are being addressed and that the company is delivering on its regulatory and fiduciary reporting responsibilities. With so much to consider, it can be difficult to know where to start. To that end, Protiviti…
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    January 25, 2019
    From Spreadsheet-Driven Madness to Reporting That Excels
    Perhaps it’s the exceptional usefulness of spreadsheets that makes problems with them inevitable. Many organizations we know have experienced being handcuffed to spreadsheets, for one or more of the following reasons: They lack a good reporting system.Their reporting systems are available to some but not all of their locations or departments.They need reports that draw data from several…
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    August 8, 2018
    The Financial Crisis of 2008 – May We Never Forget the Lessons Learned
    The subprime lending crisis of 2008, which led to significant distress in the financial markets, was a disaster of mega proportions. Its root causes are many, making it systemic in nature as opposed to a one-off situation in a specific company. Loan originators brokered financing of houses without regard to credit quality so they could get their up-front fees, take a walk and leave the inevitable…
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    August 9, 2018
    New Survey by Protiviti Measures SOX Automation, Costs, Hours and More
    According to Protiviti's 2018 Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Compliance Survey, released today, most companies are not taking advantage of available tools and technology, such as automated controls and testing and robotic process automation (RPA), to reduce the time and cost expended to achieve SOX compliance. Less than one-third of organizations are using technology tools such as automated process…
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