Audit & Risk Management
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Protiviti leaders and subject-matter experts from around the world provide insights on key issues facing organizations in our dynamic, challenging and competitive global business climate. Our world-class internal audit and risk assessment experience provides a wealth of information and data to help you meet future challenges.

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Achieving Audit Relevance – with Andrew Struthers-Kennedy and Angelo Poulikakos
Top-performing internal audit groups share similar traits: They focus more on streamlined, tailored, impactful communications and reporting. They...

New Protiviti Research: Achieving Audit Relevance
Internal audit functions face a continuing talent crunch and ongoing demands to support the organization’s transformation efforts in response to...

Achieving Audit Relevance
As internal audit functions face a continuing talent crunch and demands to support the organisation’s strategic moves in response to external events,...

Why Auditors Rarely Find Fraud
In today’s world where corporate scandals often make front page news, fraud prevention and detection are becoming a priority for management and...
Business Audit

How to Implement an Aligned Assurance Model to Build a Collective View of Risk
The big picture: Aligned assurance can create multiple benefits, including:
Giving stakeholders a common view of risks and issues across the...

CAE Risk Outlook Shows Concerns About the Economy, Talent, Cyber Threats and Supply Chains
The big picture
For CAEs, 2023 is shaping up to be a year fraught with significant risk.
These views are sharpening further in light of...

As Internal Audit Evolves, CAEs Must Make Talent Management Core to Strategic Planning
The global pandemic changed the worldwide labor market. One trend, which began in early 2021, is the aptly named “Great Resignation.” Amid perceived...

Setting the 2023 Audit Committee Agenda
As in prior years, our suggested 2023 audit committee agenda includes important enterprise, process and technology issues and financial reporting and...
Technology Audit

Podcast | IT Audit Perspectives on Today’s Top Technology Risks
The greatest IT audit concerns lie with cybersecurity-related breaches and related risk issues. Data governance and data integrity are being...

2022 IT Audit Technology Risks in Tech, Media & Telecom
Survey Shows Elevated Concerns Around Cybersecurity, Privacy and Compliance for the Technology, Media and Telecom Industry
For the technology,...

IT Audit Perspectives on Top Technology Risks
Results of ISACA/Protiviti global survey reveal cybersecurity, privacy, data and regulatory compliance are top-of-mind concerns
An uncertain global...

New IT Audit Survey From Protiviti and ISACA Ranks Cybersecurity, Privacy, Data and Regulatory Compliance as Top Technology Challenges
Where to even begin?
An uncertain global economy, volatile geopolitical developments, a persistent pandemic, a changing regulatory landscape, and...
Audit Automation

The Evolution of SOX: Tech Adoption and Cost Focus Amid Business Changes, Cyber and ESG Mandates
Protiviti’s annual Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Survey provides detailed benchmarks for compliance costs and hours, while quantifying the impact of...

Podcast | The Evolution of SOX: Tech Adoption and Cost Focus Amid Business Changes, Cyber and ESG Mandates
In this episode, we dive into SOX compliance – specifically, the findings of and key takeaways from Protiviti’s latest Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance...

Podcast | Building Technology and Data Enabled Capabilities
Innovation, transformation and the introduction of more advanced technologies are on the agendas of most groups in an organisation today. The same...
Risk Management

Navigating sanctions compliance through the transition to ISO 20022
The International Organisation for Standardisation’s (ISO) new global messaging standard, ISO 20022, is set to be adopted by payment processing...

What Role Should Compliance Play in ESG?
By Bernadine Reese and Jackie SanzRegulators and many other stakeholders are intently focused on how financial institutions address environmental,...

A Call for Transparency Amid a Shifting Legal and Regulatory Landscape
The increasing complexity of the legal and regulatory landscape is challenging the board’s fiduciary duties. Emerging trends ushering in a call for...

COSO Issues Supplemental Guidance on Internal Control Over Sustainability Reporting
The Committee of Sponsoring Organisations of the Treadway Commission (COSO) has released supplemental guidance on how to effectively apply the 2013...