Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Leadership Margaret Smith Maggie Smith is a Managing Director at Protiviti with 15+ years experience delivering data and AI solutions to Aerospace and Defense (A&D). Her role is focused on developing Protiviti’s AI capabilities and A&D business. She specialises in applied delivery of AI, to include generative AI (GenAI) and ML, for use cases such as threat analysis, supply chain, and fraud. Leadership Bryan Throckmorton Bryan Throckmorton, Managing Director, CIO Solutions - Private Equity, leads the firm's Global Digital Strategy & Transformation Segment. Throughout his 20+ year career, Bryan’s work has been on the leading edge of data driven and digital strategy and execution, transforming business processes and decision making to improve performance across a variety of industries.Most recently, Bryan led… Blog Succeeding With Data and Analytics: A Guide for Internal Audit Teams in the Manufacturing Industry Internal audit leaders at manufacturing and distribution (M&D) companies increasingly recognize the potential of bringing disparate data sources together to produce analytical insights that strengthen their practices. Outside of internal audit, M&D organizations are already applying analytics to production challenges like predictive maintenance of equipment or calibrating the supply chain… Blog C-Suite Shuffle: The CISO’s Evolving Role and Reporting Structure In 1994, Steve Katz became the world’s first chief information security officer (CISO) after Citicorp endured a string of cyberbreaches at the hands of Russian hackers. Katz is an undisputed legend in the CISO profession that he’s credited with launching. His origin story remains relevant today for CISOs adapting to new reporting structures and relationships with their C-suite colleagues. Prior… Partner Informatica Informatica, an Enterprise Cloud Data Management leader, empowers businesses to realise the transformative power of data. They have pioneered a new category of software, the Informatica Intelligent Data Management Cloud™(IDMC), powered by AI and a cloud-first, cloud-native, end-to-end data management platform that connects, manages, and unifies data across any multi-cloud, hybrid system,… Blog Four Steps to Keeping SAP’s Financial Processes Compliant: Step 2 Step 2: Optimize Internal Control Framework Protiviti has identified four key steps that organizations can take to improve their overall control environment and receive the benefits mentioned below. Each of these steps will be a focus in this four-part blog series. Step 1 covered analyzing configuration and processes. In this post, we review optimizing the internal control… Blog Demand Planning with SAP Analytics Cloud for the Consumer Products Industry Consumer products companies face many significant challenges. As markets and supply chains continue to become more global, and as customers continue to demand more convenience and personalization from consumer products companies, we see increased pressure to improve shrinking margins and meet customers’ evolving needs. One of the key processes that enables this balance is demand… Blog How CISOs Prioritize Cybersecurity Spend What drives cybersecurity spend and budget decisions? Too often, the reasoning behind these decisions is reactive in nature, rather than proactive. Often, CISOs see budget increases following a breach at their organization or in response to what is happening to industry peers. While this is not inherently negative, fear should not be the primary driver of security program budgeting and spend… Blog Cloud Optimization is Key to Cloud Cost Management More and more, we are talking to clients about the “surprise” of cloud costs. Organizations are constantly shocked by the cloud service provider’s (CSP) bill. Procurement and Information Technology scramble to understand why the bill is high. Finance scrambles to understand how to record every item to maximize CapEx and OpEx. Once this exercise is over, the following month is a rinse and repeat… Blog Disinformation Risk: Are Bogus Whistleblower Complaints from Bad Actors Causing Corporate Havoc? “Misinformation” and “disinformation” have long been mainstays in the political arena, the climate change debate and even in the public discourse over COVID-19 vaccines. Misinformation represents information that is wrong, a challenge every business must deal with from time to time, whether in the press, analyst communications, social media, discussions at government levels, or other venues.… Load More