Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Podcast series February 28, 2022 Practical Quantum ComputingAdvantage for Businesses Guest Speaker: Alex Condello, Director-Algorithms, Performance and Tools at D-Wave Systems Inc. It’s amazing how many programming languages and interfaces exist in quantum compung already. What if there was a way to learn and use all of them without installing anything? qBraid is making that possible with a site you can join for free today. Join host Konstannos Karagiannis for a chat with Kanav… Blog January 23, 2014 Setting the 2014 Audit Committee Agenda to Address Tough Issues As those of you who serve on audit committees know, setting an effective and strategically sound audit committee agenda is no easy task. For one thing, a lot is already on the agenda and there are certain things audit committees are required to do according to the company’s exchange listing standards and other legal requirements. So aside from the things the committee is obligated to do, is there… Blog February 5, 2014 Executive Perspectives on Top Risks for 2014 One of the first questions an organization seeks to answer in risk management is, “What are our most critical risks?” To provide perspectives about the nature of potential risks in 2014, I am pleased to report that Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s ERM Initiative have partnered for the second consecutive year to poll more than 370 board members and C-suite executives regarding their… Blog February 7, 2014 More on the Five Lines of Defense In January, I commented on this page regarding how an effectively designed and implemented lines-of-defense framework can provide strong safeguards against breakdowns in risk management and compliance management. The traditional lines-of-defense model has emphasized three lines of defense – (1) business unit management and process owners, (2) independent risk management and compliance functions,… Blog February 10, 2014 PreView-ing Today’s Emerging Risks We want to share a heads up with you regarding a new Protiviti newsletter that we’re very excited about. We’ve just published the first edition of PreView, which will be a quarterly review of emerging risks likely to have a strategic impact on organizations over the long term. Our focus in issuing PreView is on helping organizations ask the right questions rather than provide answers. Therefore,… Blog February 20, 2014 Ethics in Corporate Governance: “Walking the Talk” If it’s true you can’t legislate morality – and all evidence, including but certainly not limited to corporate malfeasance such as the Enron and Worldcom scandals or the questionable corporate behavior of reckless risk-taking to maximize short-term profits and compensation (under “heads I win, tails you lose” compensation structures that left shareholders with the short stick) that contributed to… Blog February 28, 2014 Cybersecurity Framework: Where Do We Go From Here? Protiviti just published a Flash Report on the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) final version of its Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. I highly recommend that anyone involved in cybersecurity in their organization become familiar with the NIST Framework by reading our report. This framework could end up being the new game in town. Just over a… Blog March 12, 2014 Today’s IT Organization – Delivering Security, Value and Performance Amid Major Transformation Today, Protiviti released the results of its 2014 IT Priorities Survey, and in it, there are some remarkable findings. Indeed, if there is one word to describe the state of IT organizations in 2014, it is transformation. We found that nearly two out of three organizations are undergoing a major IT transformation. Consider the change and disruption this undoubtedly is creating within IT… Blog March 19, 2014 Assessing the Top Priorities for Today’s Internal Audit Functions Protiviti’s research train keeps on rolling! Today we released the results of our latest Internal Audit Capabilities and Needs Survey. We’ve been conducting research to identify internal audit priorities and trends for eight years and have been very pleased with the response we continue to receive from the market. In looking at the major findings in our 2014 study, I expect this year will be no… Leadership Kurt A. Underwood Kurt serves as a Managing Director at Protiviti, responsible for architecting and planning advanced technology deployments, building out solution centers, governance, risk management, and compliance for data centers (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure). Kurt actively advises C-suite Fortune 500 leaders on critical business transformations and transactions involving cloud adoption in financial… Load More
