Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog AI Agents are Here. 7 Steps to Prepare AI agents are no longer a futuristic concept — they are a practical, transformative force that is reshaping industries. One of the most impactful uses of AI today is the development and deployment of agents: systems that independently perform tasks, interact with data and even collaborate with people to enhance efficiency, reduce costs and drive innovation. To capture the powerful benefits of… Blog CMMC Final Rule Published: What It Means for the Defense Industrial Base What happened: The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) has officially published the long-awaited final rule integrating the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) framework into the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) under 48 CFR Parts 204, 212, 217 and 252 in the Federal Register. The rule was published on September 10, 2025, and comes into effect on November 10,… Blog Can Internal Audit Help Build Business Resilience? Protiviti Shares Stories of Persistence, Agility and Going Beyond Limits to Do That, in the Latest “Internal Auditing Around the World” What do Booking Holdings, Centene Corporation, DBS Bank, GlobalFoundries, Grupo Bepensa, Inchcape, Standard Chartered and TrueBlue have in common? All these companies have internal audit departments that have taken on a mission of helping their organizations overcome pandemic-caused challenges and become more resilient by embracing next-generation internal audit technologies, tools and… Leadership Dan Hansen Dan is a Managing Director in Protiviti's IT Consulting Practice and leads the Security & Privacy practice in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has over 16 years of IT process and risk management experience and has led numerous IT engagements, focusing on information security, outsourced and co-sourced internal audit support, Payment Card Industry (PCI) assessments, disaster recovery and… Leadership Nick Britton Nick is a Managing Director in Protiviti’s Technology Consulting practice who focuses on assisting organisations in proactively identifying vulnerabilities and risks through targeted technical testing. Nick leads Protiviti’s Attack & Penetration practice in defining testing methodology and developing solutions to support organisations in performing assessments and building strategy in… Leadership Tom Stewart Tom is a Senior Director leading the global delivery of Protiviti’s Attack and Penetration practice. Tom and his team assist clients in performing network penetration testing, web application penetration testing, and advanced red team engagements. Tom has deep skills and knowledge in network and application security as well as well-known standards and regulations. Blog U.S. Department of Defense Updates Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Requirements: CMMC 2.0 On November 4, 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD or Department) published a proposed update to its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and defined a path forward that has Defense Industrial Base (DIB) contractors eager to understand impacts to their business and anticipated next steps in the evolution of the CMMC program. In addition to simplifying and consolidating the… Leadership Mike Ortlieb Mike is a Senior Director in Protiviti’s Orlando Technology practice. He has over 18 years experience in the Information Security field. At Protiviti, Mike leads the threat hunting / proactive breach assessment practice and oversees client engagements related to information security program management, compliance, and technical security assessments. This includes vulnerability… Leadership David Taylor David is a Managing Director based in Protiviti’s Orlando office. He has more than 20 years of experience in information security and IT Audit. He is a former federal agent and Computer Crime Investigator (CCI) for NASA’s Inspector General and for the United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). As a CCI, David investigated computer intrusions and other violations of law… 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… Load More