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    Top Takeaways from the Women in Cybersecurity Conference
    ** Today’s post is provided by guest blogger Veronica, an Experienced Consultant in our Technology Consulting practice ** Last week, I was fortunate enough to attend the Women in Cybersecurity Conference (WiCyS) in Chicago! The event is a two day conference packed with information sessions, guest speakers and opportunities to network.  The conference was hugely impactful in…
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    Part 4: Change Management: What’s Trending? A Report from GRC 2018 and Financials 2018
    The 2018 GRC and Finance SAP Insider Conferences took place in mid-February in Las Vegas. Our SAP teams spent time attending conference sessions, and their observations on what’s trending across the industry are compiled here in a five-part series. In this part we take a closer look at Change Management. During the conference, we had the opportunity to deliver a session around S/4HANA® Change…
  • Leadership
    Luca Medizza
    Luca Medizza è Managing Director presso l’ufficio di Milano ed è responsabile dell’area compliance per l’industry Financial Services. Con oltre 22 anni di esperienza, prima di entrare a far parte di Protiviti ha iniziato la sua esperienza professionale in Arthur Andersen, dove si è inizialmente occupato dell’attività di audit per poi proseguire focalizzandosi nell’area di business process risk…
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    Part 5: GRC AC/PC 12: What’s Trending? A Report from GRC 2018 and Financials 2018
    The 2018 GRC and Finance SAP Insider Conferences took place in mid-February in Las Vegas. Our SAP teams spent time attending conference sessions, and their observations on what’s trending across the industry are compiled here in a five-part series. During the conference, SAP® announced a major update to the Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) suite of products, with Access Control (AC), Process…
  • Leadership
    Keisuke Yorihiro
    KC joined Protiviti Japan in November 2020 as Executive Principal and assumed Financial Services Industry Internal Audit leader. For four years to 2019, KC served as Statutory Executive Officer/Chief Auditor at MetLife Insurance K.K., the six largest life insurer in Japan/the largest subsidiary of MetLife, Inc. outside the US. For thirty years until 2015, KC was a career CPA at Big 4 firms in the…
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    Serverless Cloud Architecture vs. Traditional Web Applications: A Difference in Risks
    Serverless application architectures, sometimes referred to as Function as a Service (FaaS), are rapidly growing in popularity. The attraction of an application that scales dynamically with load, charges only for actual usage and avoids the challenges of server management is undeniable. FaaS reduces some security risks but it can also increase others. Below are several examples to consider while…
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    After Security Remediation and Redesign: What’s Next?
    Tackling Segregation of Duties Risk with Quantitative Analytics Recent regulatory changes have shifted many conversations this year to topics such as lease accounting and data privacy, and SAPInsider’s 2018 GRC/Financials Conference was no exception. One of the most compelling topics at this year’s conference centered on the fact that, in addition to the added stress of ensuring compliance with…
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    Least Privilege Access and User Access Recertification: Not Just for SOX Anymore
    For many organizations, least privilege access controls and user access recertification are key components of their Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) risk and controls framework. Companies rely on these controls to ensure that transactions are appropriate by restricting access to authorized individuals. Other organizations place more reliance on monitoring controls to validate that changes made or…
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    AI and the Digital Future of the Insurance Industry
    Artificial intelligence (AI) is disrupting the insurance business. Though insurers are somewhat late to the party, compared with other industry groups, some have already implemented a broad range of applications for such AI staples as natural language processing (NLP), robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning (ML) and deep learning. I want to take a dive into three areas that are…
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    GDPR and EU AML Directives – A Regulatory Tug-of-War?
    The impact of the General Data Protection Regulation, effective 25 May 2018, will be felt for some time to come. One area where GDPR will present a significant ongoing challenge for the financial services industry relates to the personal data collection and processing obligations created under anti-money laundering (AML) regulations. The tension between the AML and privacy requirements is not new…
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