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  • Blog
    May 10, 2016
    Data Analytics in Internal Audit: An Imperative That Can’t Wait
    May is International Internal Audit Awareness Month. We are celebrating with a series of blog posts focused on internal audit topics and the daily challenges and future of the internal audit profession.   Data analytics is a hot topic for internal audit departments. In our most recent Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs survey, data analytics figured among the top ten priorities for internal…
  • Blog
    July 15, 2019
    No Stone Unturned: Key Considerations for Finalizing CECL Model Implementation and Validation
    With a December 31st deadline looming for SEC reporting financial institutions under the Financial Accounting Standards Board's (FASB) new Accounting Standard Update (ASU) on Current Expected Credit Loss (CECL), institutions are in various stages of finalizing their models and model documentation, performing model validation and testing, performing parallel runs and updating processes and…
  • Blog
    May 3, 2021
    Don’t Bore the Board: 5 CISO Hacks for Highly Effective Presentations
    Several years ago, we invited board members to speak candidly about presentations from company executives. Those free-flowing conversation more than lived up to what was billed as a “Don’t Bore the Board” panel discussion. The panel members’ engaging insights remain instructive to CISOs today as security leaders strive to hone their increasingly important board presentation approaches. One…
  • Blog
    April 5, 2018
    Business and Digital Transformation’s Effects on IT Audit Groups -- New Research from ISACA and Protiviti
    The results of the latest global IT Audit Benchmarking Study from ISACA and Protiviti, based on responses from more than 1,300 audit executives and professionals worldwide, paint a vivid picture of the ways IT audit leaders and professionals are succeeding, as well as where they need to “step up their games,” especially given the omnipresent nature of digital transformation efforts, cyber…
  • Blog
    October 11, 2016
    FSI CBOK Study: Effective Assurance Alone Is No Guarantee of Internal Audit Success
    This year the internal audit agenda for the financial services industry is more than a little crowded. Global macroeconomic uncertainty, rock-bottom interest rates, soaring regulatory expectations, cybersecurity threats and attacks, legacy information technology (IT) systems, fintech, blockchain and other disruptive innovations — and that’s before we even get to fulfilling the core mission of…
  • Infographic
    September 14, 2021
    Infographic: IT Audit Tech Risks in the Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail Industries
    Privacy, cyber breach, user access and data governance dominate the top technology challenges for consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail organizations, according to the annual ISACA/Protiviti Global Survey of IT audit leaders and professionals. The respondents’ ranking of the top technology risks reflect the concerns of an industry that has experienced a massive shift to e-commerce and…
  • Blog
    June 11, 2019
    Who Is Watching the Bots? Part 2 – Operational Challenges (and Solutions)
    A lot of organizations are beginning to realize the value of deploying robotic process automation (RPA) to perform high-volume, repetitive tasks that were previously performed by human users. Properly managed, RPA allows companies to scale operations and increase productivity. RPA comes with its own set of operational challenges, however, that must be considered. In Part 1 of our discussion we…
  • Blog
    November 11, 2013
    Extracting Metadata from ODBC Sources
    Metadata is essential to well documented ETL processes. Ideally, this metadata starts with the source system table and column descriptions and other system specific information. When this information is not available directly inside of Data Services, retrieving it manually can fill in the gaps and help your users get a complete map of how data arrives in the warehouse. Generally, the lack of…
  • Survey
    March 27, 2023
    Industry Experience With Remote Branch Inspections
    Beginning in 2020, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and several states provided temporary relief from the operational challenges of conducting on-site branch inspections during the pandemic, allowing firms to utilize technology to fulfill their inspection obligations remotely. Now, FINRA has proposed a voluntary, three-year remote…
  • Blog
    July 27, 2021
    Strong Business Continuity Management Brings Resilience
    In today’s rapidly evolving business world, the lines between technology and business have blurred. Organizations need to modernize and transform their technology in order to successfully compete. CIOs play a critical role in transforming the world of work using automation and technology – but they can’t do it alone. Collaboration among the C-suite is critical. In this blog series, Protiviti’s…
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