Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Leadership Tomoko Kuwahara Tomoko Kuwahara is a Director with over 15 years of experience, including J-SOX, US-SOX, and Internal Audit. She is experienced in year-1 and ongoing SOX compliance and in coordinating the global SOX projects. Blog How Zero Trust Can Defend Against Ransomware As the number of ransomware attacks rise, the failure of businesses to properly invest in cybersecurity tools, technologies and trained resources continues to become more prevalent. Not only do the ransom demands continue to increase but the average cost of ransomware recovery continues to skyrocket. Sophos research revealed that the average ransomware recovery costs are $1.85 million compared to… Leadership Aritoshi Fujisawa Aritoshi Fujisawa is a Managing Director and has over 20 years of experience in finance and accounting. He was a former member of the internal control committee in the Japanese Institution of Certified Public Accountants. Leadership Ellen Holder Ellen Holder is Managing Director in Frankfurt Germany, EMEA Lead Sustainability and member of the global ESG Steering Committee. In Germany, she is the Service Line Lead for “Sustainability, Risk & Culture” and part of the management team. One focus of the service line is to support clients in the broad spectrum of sustainability topics, such as materiality assessment, sustainability… Blog Getting Equipped for the GDPR Journey – Helpful Resources As we approach the enforcement date for GDPR compliance, 25 May 2018, the European Commission has published a new website for applicable entities to help them understand and align their data handling practices with the new law. The EU Commission’s site contains a wealth of information and resources for GDPR implementation, along with additional background on enforcement and sanctions for multiple… Blog 2018 Audit Committee Agenda: Assessing Committee Effectiveness and Obtaining Business Context All audit committees have an agenda that they follow every year. And while every organization faces its own unique challenges, there are some agenda priorities we believe that all audit committees and executive leadership should consider. Protiviti’s take on what those items should be for 2018 is outlined in the latest issue of The Bulletin, and we will be discussing them throughout the year. I… Blog Don’t Squash the Butterfly: Three Steps to Technology Acquisition Success Technology companies are in-demand acquisition targets, and not only within the technology sector. Between 2013 and 2016, private technology investments by non-tech Fortune 500 corporations grew 149 percent and were on pace to exceed investments by Fortune 500 technology firms for the first time in 2017, according to a recent report from CB Insights. Faced with the choice of building; partnering… Blog 2018 Audit Committee Agenda: Financial Reporting Risks Financial reporting issues have always been at the heart of the audit committee agenda, and always will be, even as other risks arise to claim their share of attention. With that in mind, half of Protiviti’s recommended 2018 audit committee agenda focuses on financial reporting risks. Protiviti has identified eight audit committee agenda priorities for 2018, outlined in the latest issue of The… Blog Saving Analytical Data Without Violating GDPR – Part 1: Data Minimization and Masking With an effective date less than four months away, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), known officially as “REGULATION (EU) 2016/679 OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL of 27 April 2016,” is becoming a pressing concern for companies inside and outside the European Union (EU). Broadly, the regulation specifies that personal data protection of natural persons residing in the EU… Blog Saving Analytical Data Without Violating GDPR – Part 2: Aggregation and Anonymization In a previous post, we reviewed two GDPR anonymization options – minimization and masking. In this installment we discuss two additional options. Aggregation Another way to comply with GDPR is to group data in such a way that individual records no longer exist and cannot be distinguished from other records in the same grouping. This may be accomplished through a single aggregation of the data… Load More
