Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Leadership Monica DeBellis Monica is a Managing Director in Protiviti’s Internal Audit & Financial Advisory practice. Monica works extensively with her clients in providing a broad array of services dealing with financial, operational, and regulatory business process areas. Monica has extensive experience in providing high quality internal audit services to clients primarily focused in the financial services industry.… Blog 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… Blog 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… Leadership Joseph A. Tarantino Joseph Tarantino has been president and CEO of Protiviti, a global consulting firm, since December 2007. He is responsible for the company’s worldwide operations, with a global executive team reporting to him. Tarantino has been with Protiviti since its inception in 2002. One of five founding members of the Protiviti Operating Committee, he served previously as managing director of the firm’s U.… Blog 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… Blog 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… Leadership Prosek Partners [email protected] Blog 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… Blog 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… Blog GDPR: Legitimate Interest vs. Consent For the past several months organizations around the globe have been updating privacy policies to include their lawful basis for holding and processing a user’s information, in an effort to comply with the European Union’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The law, which took effect May 25, 2018, is considered to be among the toughest privacy laws in the world. Protiviti has been… Load More