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 June 5, 2023 Using Microsoft Azure to Do More With Less At a Glance The big picture: Leaders are now reconsidering their use of cloud resources and seeking opportunities to optimize cloud operational costs. Why it matters: At a time when leaders are looking to optimize spend while honing in on high-value capabilities, Microsoft Azure offers technologies, tools, and services that enable companies to make smart cloud expenditures. Bottom line: An… Blog June 6, 2023 How Application Modernization Fuels Innovation and Profit Acceleration At a Glance The big picture: Application modernization is a business innovation enabler. Why it matters: Technology leaders are struggling with finding the right balance between upgrading legacy systems and investing in new technology while managing the perspectives, and expectations, of the business, its stakeholders, and the board. The bottom line: Upgrading the back end of legacy systems… Blog June 7, 2023 A Guide to Pen Testing and Red Teaming: What to Know Now Penetration testing and red teaming are essential cybersecurity practices that bolster an organization's security posture by uncovering vulnerabilities within their systems, networks, and people or business processes. These methodologies have distinct objectives, scopes, approaches and technologies employed. Despite the significance of both penetration testing and red teaming to bolster an… Blog June 13, 2023 How to Incubate a Winning Innovation Program When leaders consider how technology has enabled transformation of business models over the past several years, few would disagree that the world has changed dramatically. Retail, entertainment, music and banking have largely moved online. It’s a familiar story: Netflix beat Blockbuster; Amazon beat Borders. More recently, Tesla has transformed the experience of buying, owning and driving a car… Blog June 14, 2023 Simple is Secure: Streamlining Smart Contract Design and Why Contract Standards Matter For security teams looking to implement and design smart contracts, there are many intricacies and nuances that can be overwhelming. Using established standards for the secure development of smart contracts/decentralized applications (dApps) is instrumental to effectively launch smart contracts. In an earlier blog, I introduced the basics of smart contracts; today, I’m diving into existing… Podcast Transcript June 16, 2023 Transcript | ESG and Data Management – with Alyse Mauro Mason and Mark Carson and Zachary Unger Data management is a critical component of an organization’s reporting and required disclosures, whether they are for regulatory authorities or stakeholders. The needs are no different when it comes to environmental, social and governance (ESG) – an area of growing global importance for organizations worldwide. In this podcast, Protiviti Associate Director Alyse Mauro Mason interviews Protiviti… Leadership Ryan Neff Ryan is a Managing Director at the Atlanta, GA Protiviti office. Ryan joined Protiviti in August 2007 and during his time at Protiviti has assisted with several projects focusing on Managed Business Solutions (MBS), Finance Transformation, Internal Audit, Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), and Enterprise Risk Management for numerous clients. Ryan is a 2007 graduate from Washington and Lee University… Blog June 12, 2023 How to Implement an Aligned Assurance Model to Build a Collective View of Risk The big picture: Aligned assurance can create multiple benefits, including: Giving stakeholders a common view of risks and issues across the organization Reducing repetitive, manual testing, which allows more focus on high-value activities By the numbers: In a recent Protiviti webinar on aligned assurance, only 14% of the audience members reported that collaboration across the three lines… Blog June 14, 2023 Finance Transformation’s Front-End Alignment The big picture: Finance transformation reimagines how skills, processes and technology can be leveraged to drive long-term value. By the numbers: CFOs and other finance executives view the implementation of advanced automation with more urgency than do other finance managers and professionals. Math and magic: Achieving success starts with establishing a compelling finance transformation story… Leadership Hani Masood Hani is a Managing Director in Chicago with over 22 years of consulting experience specializing in finance transformation, shared services, remediation support and program management. Hani also spent his first 12 years at Protiviti helping companies build their corporate governance programs to prepare to go public. Hani co-leads the Business Performance Improvement (“BPI”) Solution… Load More
