Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry Typelist People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Blog August 13, 2021 It’s Time To Update Your Forecasting With a Next-Generation Mindset More CFOs are coming to recognize that as post-pandemic volatility mounts, leveraging opportunities to employ next-generation forecasting approaches has become the X factor that is elevating high-performing finance groups, and leading companies, above the pack. Next-generation capability differs from traditional forecasting in fundamental ways. With a traditional approach, the finance team… Blog August 16, 2021 Are Third Parties Pharmaceutical Companies’ Achilles’ Heel? For pharmaceutical and life science firms there has been nothing like the past 18 months. Faced with a 100-year pandemic that demanded unprecedented speeds in research and development while working under conditions that were unusual to say the least, these companies have had to collaborate with each other and with third parties as never before. And yet, even in these exceptional times, the… Blog August 19, 2021 Internal Auditors in the Spotlight as Trusted Advisers and Partners in Business Resilience Internal auditors are being challenged to do more than ever before, often in areas beyond the typical audit plan prepared each year. Stakeholders are looking for greater insight and knowledge into their organizations. Deft internal audit organizations have been able to engrain the importance of their role and reaffirm value. In November 2018, Protiviti published a white paper that was a call to… Blog August 23, 2021 Understand SBA Lending Risks Better to Reap the Rewards On August 5, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) released the “Small Business Administration Lending: Risk Management Principles” bulletin (OCC 2021-34). This guidance informs bankers and examiners of the critical components for ensuring a sound risk management system related to U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) lending. In this blog post, we explore the risks and… Blog August 26, 2021 Will Portfolio Optimization Prove Quantum Advantage This Year? Finding a specific use case that proves quantum advantage will radically kickstart the quantum computing industry. While universal gate-based quantum computers with error correction are a few years away, annealers – quantum systems from D-Wave – are proving excellent at specific types of problems today, especially in a hybrid approach aided by classical computers.… Blog August 27, 2021 Succeeding With Data and Analytics: A Guide for Internal Audit Teams in the Manufacturing Industry Internal audit leaders at manufacturing and distribution (M&D) companies increasingly recognize the potential of bringing disparate data sources together to produce analytical insights that strengthen their practices. Outside of internal audit, M&D organizations are already applying analytics to production challenges like predictive maintenance of equipment or calibrating the supply… Blog June 26, 2018 Hidden Vulnerability: GDPR Data in Unexpected Places The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) — one of the most comprehensive data privacy regulations in history is effective as of May 25, 2018. This regulation imposes strict requirements on how the personal data of EU subjects is collected, used and stored — both within the EU and by foreign companies doing business within the EU, including small web-based businesses that… Blog July 10, 2018 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… Blog July 17, 2018 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 July 19, 2018 A Look at Full Meltdown: A Vulnerability Created by Patching Spectre and Meltdown The introduction of the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities produced patches from big-name vendors such as Intel, AMD and Microsoft. These vulnerabilities allowed memory leakage due to the exploitation of the CPU’s speculative execution. A Swedish security researcher, Ulf Frisk, discovered that the January and February Microsoft Security patches mitigated Meltdown but produced a new threat: The… Load More
