It is more crucial than ever for you to stay ahead of trends and tools. Join Protiviti 1-3 May in Las Vegas, Nevada, and be a part of the top conference for IS audit and security professionals.

Speaking Sessions:

Monday, May 1, 2017

1:00 PM - 2:15 PM Pacific

123–Using Internal Audit for Info Security 

Jason Maslan, Protiviti, Managing Director

"The internal audit (IA) function can play an integral role in strengthening information security across the enterprise. By expanding IA's purview to cyber policies and practices, executives can apply the rigor reserved for accounting to cyber defense.

After completing this session, you will be able to: 

• Understanding the cyber landscape
• Defining internal audit’s role in cyber security
• Interpreting cyber security assessment results
• Educating the Audit Committee and Board on cyber security risk
• How IA can become a trusted cyber advisor"

2:30 PM -  3:45 PM Pacific

131–The IoT: What does this mean to IA?

Anthony Chalker, Protiviti, Managing Director

"The Internet of Things (IoT) also brings disruptive change to the forefront, and the security and data management challenges are significant. Why is this important to internal audit?

After completing this session, you will be able to: 

• Define what is IoT
• Know the importance to audit professionals
• New disruptive opportunities (and risks)
• Impact different industries"

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Pacific

Top Technology Challenges - Cybersecurity and Internal Audit Discussion

Gordon Braun, Protiviti, Managing Director

Cybersecurity is viewed as the top technology challenge in the 6th annual IT Audit Benchmarking Survey. This has been a highly ranked challenge in our prior years’ surveys, but still has increased in importance and clearly is the top-of-mind concern for IT audit leaders and professionals.  These results are consistent with the results of Protiviti’s annual survey of technology leaders, which show that IT security and incident response capabilities dominates the priority lists for CIOs.  What are the implications to the audit plan.