There is often a tendency in RPA implementations to automate as much as possible, focusing more on the value the technology can deliver and less on what are the right things to automate or what risks may be introduced...
Archive - October 2018
Quantifying Cyber Risk: Takeaways From FAIRCON18
At a time when cyber/information security risk looms large on the minds of directors and executives, quantitative risk assessments are gaining traction as a way to understand and measure that risk. While the need to...
Finance Data Priorities: First Get It Right, Then Make It Pretty
Baseball great Yogi Berra is fondly remembered for famously miscalculating that, “Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.” Unfortunately, making similar miscalculations on data in the business world...
The Responsible Tech Firm Series, Part 3: Preparing for the Regulatory Wave
As technology firms wake to the reality of increasing regulation, the question arises: “How do we prepare?” Protiviti has published a four-part series on key considerations for technology industry board members and...
Cybersecurity: Navigating the Legal and Regulatory Landscape
As companies around the world adapt to comply with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), legislators in the United States are under pressure from constituents to pass even more consumer privacy protection...
Data and Digital Dominate Discussions at InsureTech Connect 2018
Protiviti Managing Director Shawn Seasongood attended the InsureTech Connect conference in Las Vegas earlier this month. He shares his impressions on what is exciting the industry in this brief podcast recorded shortly...
Success Factor: The People Side of Digital Transformation
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you hear “digital transformation”? Time after time, we ask participants at webinars and events to describe their idea of digital transformation, and the word “technology”...
Fintech Charters, Iran Sanctions, Online Lending Crackdown in New York: Listen to the Latest Compliance Insights Podcast
Protiviti Director Tom Giltrow, from our Risk and Compliance practice, offers a deeper perspective on some of the topics covered in a recent edition of Protiviti’s Compliance Insights newsletter. Listen below...
Advanced Technologies, New Internal Audit Skills Among Top Discussions at ACAMS
The 2018 ACAMS conference may be over but the conversations continue. In the podcast below, Protiviti managing directors Todd Pleune (Data & Analytics) and Ricci Franklin (Internal Audit) share their impressions of...
Transforming AML Compliance with Technology – Takeaways From the Experts at the ACAMS AML Conference
To those overhearing conversations at the ACAMS Conference in Las Vegas last week, terms like “robotic process automation”(RPA), “artificial intelligence” (AI) and “machine learning” (ML) may have sounded like buzzwords...