Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog Maintaining Margins While Staying Vigilant - Highlights from the FERF/Protiviti 2016 Finance Priorities Survey Finance functions were historically busy last year. But they cannot afford to back off. In the coming year, between maintaining margins, forecasting cash flow, complying with new regulations and combatting cyberthreats, finance functions will have much to monitor on their radars and need to be incredibly vigilant. The results of the 2016 Finance Priorities Survey from the Financial… Blog How Optimized Staffing Plays a Role in a Successful S/4HANA Journey As more organizations look to transform their businesses leveraging SAP’s S/4HANA and other SAP applications, it is key to consider the people side of the transformation. From a resourcing perspective there are several unique challenges that business transformation projects bring to an organization. In this post, we will look at a few of these challenges in detail and provide alternatives and… Landing Page Search results Blog Privacy Act 1988 Review: A Compliance Burden or Welcome Change? It has been more than two years since the Attorney-General’s Department announced[1] it would be undertaking a review of the Privacy Act 1988. The review will likely result in the most substantial amendment to the Act since what we now know as the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) were introduced in 2000. The objective of the review “will consider whether the scope of the Privacy Act 1988 and… Leadership Chip Wolford Chip is a Managing Director in Protiviti’s Technology Consulting practice focusing on Data Security & Privacy. He presently leads Protiviti’s Data Security practice and focuses on Payment Card Industry and Healthcare Information Security as well as supporting clients via the broad spectrum of Protiviti cybersecurity offerings. Chip has worked specifically with complex organizations managing… Leadership Andrew Retrum Andrew Retrum is a Managing Director within Protiviti’s Technology Consulting Practice and the Global Technology Risk & Resilience Practice Lead. Andrew assists our clients in navigating an ever-evolving risk landscape, managing cyber and evolving technology risks and helping our clients better understand, communicate, and respond and recover from adverse events. Podcast The Buffett Newspaper Test: What It Means Transparency and consequences can be powerful leadership deterrents. Blog Control the Cloud Ensuring IT risks are managed and compliance requirements are met has only intensified with the recent rapid growth in adoption of cloud services. Deployment of production workloads, migration of regulated systems and increasing storage of large volumes of data in the cloud has driven the need for security and controls to be deployed across customer cloud environments. Within large enterprises,… Blog Securing Data with Microsoft Information Protection Join our webinar, Protecting Your Information with Microsoft Information Protection, Thursday, February 4, 1 p.m. eastern Why does Information Protection matter? Information Protection is the process of securing digital information without restricting the organization’s capability to use their data for business purposes or compromising consumer and end-user privacy. The significance of… Blog The Role of the Business vs. IT in Supporting Cloud Applications For companies considering the move to a Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Software as a Service (SaaS) platform, one of the key drivers is likely the perceived opportunity for reduced IT overhead costs and maintenance responsibilities. While hosting and general monitoring activities are delegated to the SaaS provider, there will be both new and continued responsibilities for IT that… Load More