All enterprises are subject to risks that have the potential to disrupt business models and damage reputations overnight. Senior leaders – across industries and geographies – indicate they anticipate...
Archive - January 2019
From Spreadsheet-Driven Madness to Reporting That Excels
Perhaps it’s the exceptional usefulness of spreadsheets that makes problems with them inevitable. Many organizations we know have experienced being handcuffed to spreadsheets, for one or more of the following reasons:...
Setting the 2019 Audit Committee Agenda
Boards today – especially audit committees – are expected to develop and maintain a thorough understanding of business risks and ask the tough questions to ensure that critical risks are being addressed and that the...
Podcast: The Responsible Technology Firm of the Future
Technology firms are having an unprecedented influence over our lives and their reach has extended across the globe like never before. As a result, the level of regulatory scrutiny of these tech giants has increased...
Top Risks 2019: CFOs Focus on People and Technology
Chief financial officers (CFOs), by virtue of their role as strategic and financial managers and scorekeepers, are in a unique position to view corporate risks across the enterprise. It is therefore useful to understand...
Finance Transformation: Change Management and Overcoming Resistance
As more companies tackle transformation, finance organizations, as scorekeepers, need to make sure they stay ahead of the change curve. The use of data and technology is often the first way finance looks to add...
Financial Services Regulators Focusing on Cyber Resilience
Cyber resilience has become the latest concern for regulators around the world, as massively disruptive attacks such as NotPetya and WannaCry brought into the forefront the vulnerability of interconnected systems. Cyber...
Getting Operational Resilience Right – Six Key Action Points
The operating environment for financial firms has changed significantly in recent years. IT outages and cyber attacks – some of which have been very high profile – as well as increasing reliance on third parties through...
What Will 2019 Bring in Cybersecurity? Focus on Processes, Communication and Compliance, CISOs Say
The coming year in cybersecurity will be less about new cyber defense tools and more about education, compliance and process maturity. On December 14, 2018, I had the pleasure to moderate a chief information security...
Leveraging Technology to Ensure Sustainability of Privacy
In London last November, Protiviti sponsored and spoke at the Data Protection World Forum. What was clear from speaking to the many delegates at the event was that many are now pausing for reflection, often after...