Preparing the Organization for an Economic Downturn

There is no better time to prepare for an economic downturn than when times are good. With the memory of the severity of the 2007-2008 financial crisis still fresh in the minds of many directors and executives, how should companies prepare for a downturn in the cool of the day, rather than reacting in crisis mode?

PreView - August 2017 Edition

PreView is Protiviti's emerging risks newsletter, in which we evaluate risks based on a global categorization designed by the World Economic Forum. In this edition, we discuss emergent issues in global logistics, the effects of populism on trade and regulation, the threat of income inequality and the current state of U.S. Infrastructure.

SOX Compliance Benchmarks in 2017 – Costs, Hours, Cybersecurity and More

Ana Amato and Jeff Tecau, managing directors with Protiviti and leaders in the firm’s Internal Audit and Financial Advisory practice, review some of the detailed results from Protiviti’s latest SOX Compliance Survey, including costs and hours, control counts, cybersecurity and more.

SWIFT Customer Security Program — Preparing for Cyberattacks

In response to fraud and cybersecurity threats that have grown more sophisticated and global, SWIFT introduced a new Customer Security Program (CSP) in late 2016 that includes the SWIFT Customer Security Controls Framework (CSCF). The SWIFT CSP required all users to implement the 16 mandatory controls on their local SWIFT infrastructure and perform a self-assessment against the requirements on an annual basis. In this paper, we discuss the impact on both large and small financial services organizations, and lay out the four steps to compliance.