Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog The Clock Is Ticking on Finance’s Move to the Cloud The successes of Google, Apple, Amazon and other innovative, yet patient, global leaders underscore the advantages of not always being first to market. When it comes to adoption of cloud technologies, corporate finance groups also have a valuable opportunity to join the ranks of intelligent second movers. And CFOs can take advantage of lessons learned, practices developed and confidence gained… Blog Enable Transformation, Manage Risk with a Cloud Control Framework Businesses are experiencing increased agility and reliability – and cost reductions – through cloud transformation but adopting cloud solutions can result in new risks. Sometimes, they impede enterprise vision and regulatory compliance. Applying an appropriate framework to help manage the risk of cloud adoption can mitigate or even eliminate these hazards. In an earlier blog, we introduced the… Leadership Brandon Beckstrom Brandon is part of Protiviti’s Risk and Compliance solution with a primary focus on process and control design to increase automation and reduce process risk and redundancies. Brandon is experienced in agile transformation and holds the Certified Scrum Master credential. Brandon is also experienced in RCSA design, monitoring and testing design, as well as regulatory compliance assessments,… Blog Ransomware Resiliency Road Map: Lessons Learned From the Colonial Pipeline Attack and Recent TSA Directives Operational technology (OT) serves as the backbone and infrastructure the world relies on to provide critical resources and requires sustainable operations. to provide reliable technology services. The headwinds facing OT services include: many businesses are operating their OT networks with aging legacy technology, many business networks do not provide adequate segmentation between IT and OT,… Blog Pick Up the (Teams) Phone The use of technology platforms to support remote and hybrid work has accelerated. But as businesses put their long-term plans into action, what’s going to happen to phone systems? Corey Harrison, managing director at Protiviti in the US, and Jez Haisman, director for Microsoft technology at Protiviti UK, reveal more. The trend towards cloud communication has been developing for more than a… Leadership Michael Lyons Michael is a Managing Director and brings over 15 years of security and privacy consulting to companies across the US. Michael provides expertise in financial services, retail, and telecommunications security. His proficiencies include network design, end point management, and security operations. Blog How to Elevate SAP Analytics Programs with Alteryx More organizations are leveraging Alteryx to improve their SAP Analytics programs and drive change within their organization. In this post, we discuss how this powerful end-to-end analytical tool can be applied to SAP environments to quickly add value and elevate analytic programs. Why Alteryx? Alteryx is a leader in the analytics automation software space. The tool combines powerful data… Blog Understanding the Parallel Worlds of SAP and SIEM Traditionally, it has been a conundrum for many CISOs and CIOs working with SAP products on what is truly needed to ensure the security of their data for sensitivity or competitive advantage purposes. Standard Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) monitoring often fails to ensure the security of the SAP system because the specific SAP logs and analyses can’t be interpreted, and,… Leadership Bill Byrnes Bill is a Managing Director with Protiviti. In his current role, Bill oversees all aspects of Protiviti’s US credit risk management and lending operations practice. This includes consulting and advisory services related to the consumer and commercial business units of regional, national, and international banking organisations. Relevant experience includes assessing lending policies and… Blog Automating the RFP Process Leveraging Nintex Workflow Cloud and Microsoft Power Automate The challenge A global hospitality firm approached Protiviti late in 2020 to address its highly-manual proposal process. This organization used shared email inboxes and a complex monitoring and routing process to track requests for proposals (RFPs) When the team received RFP requests, they used several criteria to determine the associated account managers for those requests and then forwarded the… Load More