Results for Search Submit Filter by: Advanced Filter All results Solutions Industry People Client Story Insights/Blogs Filter 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… Leadership Jay Thompson Jay is a founding Protiviti Managing Director and the global leader of its Managed Business Solutions practice. These services include engagements that combine experienced and results-oriented consultants with specialized and flexible operational resources to improve or establish critical business functions.Jay has over 30 years consulting and industry experience in the energy, manufacturing,… Blog January 18, 2022 Becoming a CISO: If I Knew Then What I Know Now Throughout my career as both a CISO and a consultant serving CISOs in companies around the globe, I’ve learned that Chief Information Security Officers, regardless of their current title, reporting structure or how they got to the role, share many things in common; one of which being, they love to talk about their experiences. Recently, we gathered three of the most experienced CISOs I know to… Leadership Shawn Seasongood Shawn is a Managing Director leading the Finance and Performance Management segment. He assists clients globally in business and system transformations to address growth, scalability of systems, challenges and process effectiveness.Shawn is a leader within the Operational and Financial Transformation area assisting global companies in business and system finance transformations necessary to… Leadership John Stevenson John is a Managing Director and leads the Cloud Security practice, focusing on healthcare, retail, consumer goods and services, financial services, and payment processing. He brings more than 25 years of technology experience with 13+ years in cloud security and privacy. John holds multiple patents for cloud security, ranging from cloud security frameworks to cloud security threat intelligence. Blog July 5, 2016 Global Instability, Cybersecurity on the Minds of Manufacturing and Distribution Industry Executives Protiviti and North Carolina State University’s ERM Initiative teamed at the end of last year to survey directors and executives across a wide spectrum of industries for our fourth annual Executive Perspectives on Top Risks report. We are drilling down, over a series of blog posts, to provide insight into these executive perspectives within key industries and how these risks may have evolved… Load More