Insight Search Search Submit Sort by: Relevance Date Search Sort by RelevanceDate Order AscDesc Survey July 25, 2022 Energy and Utilities Executive Perspectives on Top Risks 2021 & 2030 The range of uncertainties facing Energy and Utilities business leaders around the globe is overwhelming. Challenges triggered by a once-in-a-century pandemic continue to unfold, combined with numerous other risk issues, such as growing social unrest and polarisation, and ever-present challenges associated with technology, digital transformation and innovation. Staying abreast of emerging risk… Newsletter August 16, 2021 The World Is a Zoo: Framing Risks in the Boardroom As disruption and the unexpected have become the norm in many industries, clarity is needed around framing the boardroom risk conversation. In 2009, in the wake of the great financial crisis, the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) published a report on the board’s risk governance process, recommending five risk categories for boards to differentiate risks for discussion purposes… Newsletter October 18, 2021 Is Your Company Part of the Energy Revolution? Informed organisations in all industries are establishing carbon emissions reduction and net-zero carbon emissions targets. Directors’ conversations on strategy have an important role in businesses’ energy transformations. Energy consumption is a priority. The introduction of renewables continues as costs decline. The percentage of electricity consumed through non-fossil fuel sources — solar,… Podcast March 23, 2022 Podcast | Quantum Machine Learning Using PennyLane with Xanadu Quantum machine learning, or QML, is one of the three major application categories for quantum computing, along with optimisation and simulation. As we’re working with customers at Protiviti to find advantageous use cases in QML, we rely daily on a tool called PennyLane from Xanadu. Join host Konstantinos Karagiannis, and special cohost Emily Stamm, for a chat with Nathan Killoran from Xanadu to… Whitepaper September 3, 2021 SOX Compliance and the Promise of Technology and Automation Assessing the results of Protiviti’s 2021 SOX Compliance Survey within the energy and utilities industries It’s been more than a year since a historic global pandemic changed the way companies operate in the near-term and very likely for the long-term future. We can see the impact on numerous fronts — including the costs for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance activities. And for certain companies, the… Whitepaper September 29, 2021 Funding, Privacy, Security and IT System Changes Dominate Priorities for Healthcare Internal Auditors Key Findings From the Latest Survey Conducted by Protiviti and AHIA on Healthcare Provider Organisation Internal Audit Plan Priorities Even before the COVID-19 public health emergency, healthcare organisations were challenged in their mission to deliver high-quality patient care due to provider and staff shortages. Many healthcare organisations have been forced to make severe and often morale-… Whitepaper February 22, 2021 Four Ways Finance Leaders Strengthen Cybersecurity As CEOs and boards become more informed about the extreme threats that cybersecurity lapses pose, their expectations are growing. CFOs’ expanding contributions to fortifying organisational data security, the highest priority identified in Protiviti’s latest Global Finance Trends Survey, play a pivotal role in satisfying those high expectations. Board members demand coherent, relevant and timely… Flash Report November 9, 2021 U.S. Department of Defense Updates Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification Requirements: CMMC 2.0 On November 4, 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD or Department) published a proposed update to its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) and defined a path forward that has Defense Industrial Base (DIB) contractors eager to understand impacts to their business and anticipated next steps in the evolution of the CMMC programme. In addition to simplifying and consolidating the… Infographic September 14, 2021 Infographic: IT Audit Tech Risks in the Consumer Packaged Goods and Retail Industries Privacy, cyber breach, user access and data governance dominate the top technology challenges for consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail organisations, according to the annual ISACA/Protiviti Global Survey of IT audit leaders and professionals. The respondents’ ranking of the top technology risks reflect the concerns of an industry that has experienced a massive shift to e-commerce and… Infographic September 1, 2021 Infographic: IT Audit Tech Risks in the Tech, Media & Telecom Industries Cybersecurity, privacy, data and resilience dominate the top technology challenges for technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) organisations, according to the annual ISACA/Protiviti Global Survey of IT audit leaders and professionals. These issues, which already were top-of-mind risks for most organisations, have been fueled further by pandemic-driven times of remote work and new business… Load More