Tasks associated with SOX compliance continue to be significant

Only 46 percent of audit teams have been utilizing advanced technologies to optimize SOX compliance activities, a decrease from the previous year’s Protiviti survey findings. SOX compliance challenges The longstanding challenges associated with c… Continue reading Tasks associated with SOX compliance continue to be significant

Key challenges impacting IT audit pros navigating an evolving risk landscape

Protiviti and ISACA surveyed 2,252 chief audit executives (CAEs), internal audit professionals and IT audit vice presidents and directors worldwide. Asked to identify their biggest technology challenges, IT audit leaders and professionals noted the fol… Continue reading Key challenges impacting IT audit pros navigating an evolving risk landscape

Cybersecurity, privacy and technologies still top challenges for IT audit teams and leaders

Cybersecurity, privacy and technologies—from mission-critical to digitally transformative—top the list of challenges IT audit teams and leaders grapple with every day, according to a study conducted by ISACA and Protiviti. An executive summary of the s… Continue reading Cybersecurity, privacy and technologies still top challenges for IT audit teams and leaders

Vendor risk management programs are running harder just to stay in place

Increasing pressures in the risk and regulatory environments continue to pose severe challenges to third-party vendor risk management (VRM) programs, a recent survey by Protiviti and the Shared Assessments Program has shown. But despite increased regul… Continue reading Vendor risk management programs are running harder just to stay in place

IT audit best practices: Technological changes give rise to new risks

IT security and privacy, IT governance and risk management, regulatory compliance, emerging technology and cloud computing are the key issues impacting IT audit plans in 2018, according to a benchmarking study from Protiviti and ISACA. To whom within t… Continue reading IT audit best practices: Technological changes give rise to new risks