Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter Blog Flash Report: Microsoft Discovers Multiple Zero-Day Exploits Being Used to Attack Exchange Servers On-Premises Exchange Servers and All Hybrid Systems Impacted On Tuesday, March 2, 2021, Microsoft released four out-of-cycle security updates for on-premises Microsoft Exchange Servers to address vulnerabilities that have been exploited in limited and targeted attacks by a previously unknown Chinese espionage group. Upon validating the attacks, … Blog A Leadership Perspective: Growing with the Client Fifteen years ago, I had the good fortune of winning a project to build a data warehouse for National Vision (NVI). The company had recently emerged from bankruptcy, been acquired by a private equity (PE) firm and purchased a like-sized organization named America’s Best. To say it was chaotic, exciting and disruptive to the industry would be an understatement. The catalyst for our project was a… Blog Flash Report: CISA Issues Emergency Directive to Mitigate SolarWinds Orion Code Compromise On December 13, 2020, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive detailing required action for federal agencies to mitigate the threat of the recently discovered compromise involving SolarWinds® Orion® Network Management products that are currently being exploited by malicious actors. (Read the SolarWinds Security Advisory here.) Given the nature… Leadership Rich Turley Rich is a director with over 20 years’ experience leading risk, audit and assurance functions, activities, and projects. He has a range of experience across industries and operates across complementary solutions including internal audit, governance, risk and compliance, and ESG. Blog Recharging Your Agile Transformation The seismic shift in project management functions from administrative to a consultative business partner is helping organizations transform across the enterprise and all areas of the project life cycle. In many companies, these transformational efforts are progressing well, coordinated by new lean-agile program management office (PMO) leaders. But for others, transformation is… 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 How to Accelerate SAP Analytics Cloud for Planning Implementation Enterprise Performance Management (EPM) is a critical process in every organization to drive results and performance. In this blog, I describe how using a template-based implementation approach with our extended planning and analysis accelerator (xP&A) will accelerate any SAP Analytics Cloud (SAC) for planning … Blog Implement Balanced Governance to Reduce Risk of Enterprise Transformation Failure In today’s rapidly evolving business world, the lines between technology and business have blurred. Organizations need to modernize and transform their technology in order to successfully compete. CIOs play a critical role in transforming the world of work using automation and technology – but they can’t do it alone. Collaboration among the C-suite is critical. In this blog series, Protiviti’s… Blog Employ Business Agility to Increase Speed and Adaptability The big picture: Over the last three game-changing years, organizations learned they had room to improve their agility and adaptability. Many found they could accelerate their digital transformation, particularly when faced with an unprecedented global pandemic and the potential demise of their business. A new era: The business environment is still dealing with the longer-term effects of the… Blog M&A Value Plays: Fast, Deep and in Control M&A activity may spike favorably this year in the tech sector, and fintech may not be far behind. Yes, but: It’s important to strike the right balance between deal-making speed and due-diligence depth due to increased board scrutiny and other factors. What’s next: While this is a decidedly abbreviated list, due diligence teams should: Use sensitivity analyses and financial modeling… Load More