Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog Setting the 2019 Audit Committee Agenda Boards today – especially audit committees – are expected to develop and maintain a thorough understanding of business risks and ask the tough questions to ensure that critical risks are being addressed and that the company is delivering on its regulatory and fiduciary reporting responsibilities. With so much to consider, it can be difficult to know where to start. To that end, Protiviti… Blog Quantifying Cyber Risk: Takeaways From FAIRCON18 At a time when cyber/information security risk looms large on the minds of directors and executives, quantitative risk assessments are gaining traction as a way to understand and measure that risk. While the need to measure this risk grows, most organizations are still at a low level of maturity regarding the proper use of risk terminology and risk modeling. Getting support and, more importantly… Blog Building Bot Boundaries: RPA Controls in SOX Systems There is often a tendency in RPA implementations to automate as much as possible, focusing more on the value the technology can deliver and less on what are the right things to automate or what risks may be introduced or increased in the process. This is the natural tension that exists between the pursuit of innovation and the need for controls. As seasoned business leaders know, innovation… Blog Trends in Tech: What Emerging Technology Firms Must Keep an Eye On What’s driving leaders of emerging technology companies and the venture capitalists (VCs) who back them? Here’s a look at three trends that were hot topics for discussion at the recent TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2018 conference: Trend #1: The shortage of skilled tech talent is prompting a search for new markets. Highly skilled technology talent is hard to find in today’s tight hiring environment —… Blog Recognizing the People Element in Data Security Implementations Implementing information security technology and creating related policies is relatively easy. Getting the organization to better manage risks through the use of that technology and embrace those policies is quite a bit harder. In a recent survey by ESI ThoughtLab, co-sponsored by Protiviti, untrained staff was seen as the greatest cyber threat by businesses because it can provide a conduit for… Blog Highlighting Recent Cyber-Related Financial Losses, the SEC Urges Public Companies to Revisit Internal Accounting Controls Even the best-intended internal controls are only as effective as the degree to which they are designed and executed. According to a recent FBI report, failure to adhere to payment and reconciliation controls has cost companies more than $5 billion over the past five years. In addition, a recent cyber threat investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) found widespread… Blog Finance Trends: RPA Paves the Way for Process Improvement Improving processes is a top priority for finance organizations, outside of data security and analytics, according to Protiviti’s 2018 Finance Trends Survey. Robotic process automation (RPA) offers one of the best ways to do that. And yet, judging from the results of the survey, many finance executives are either not aware of or are not ready to commit to this relatively low-cost, non-intrusive… Blog Could Your RPA Implementation Team Be on Board Already? Robotic process automation (RPA) is rapidly gaining adoption due to its potential to make routine work more efficient, thus saving companies money and streamlining operations. Leaders recognize the benefit of freeing up skilled resources to focus on tasks requiring intellectual discernment and critical thinking. We have discussed the benefits of RPA in various parts of the organization, including… Blog Pecans in Peril: A Supply Chain Lesson From Hurricane Michael Natural disasters may be local and short-lived, but the devastation they cause can reverberate through the global supply chain for years. The time to be thinking about business continuity is long before a disaster strikes. Consider the recent case of Hurricane Michael. The Category 4 storm, which came ashore in the Florida panhandle, cut a swath through Alabama and the heart of Georgia,… Blog Ready for RPA? Five Implementation Risks to Keep in Mind Heralded as a “tech light” way to quickly eliminate repetitive work and reduce cost, robotic process automation (RPA) has been gaining wide acceptance and has been deployed by giants like Walmart, AT&T, Walgreens and American Express to automate both front-office and back-office processes. But RPA is not a cure-all. RPA, aka “bots,” while good at handling highly manual and repetitive rules-… Load More
